Indistinct Chatter LAYR / Pia-Marie Remmers

The sixth episode consist of “The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman" a text written by Lise Soskolne and read by Tamara Faith Berger.
Lise Soskolne was born in Canada in 1971 and lives and works in New York since the late 1990s. She is a co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy and has been its core organizer since 2012. The organization advocates for the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions in the U.S. In the context of her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Humour Then, at Kunstverein Nürnberg in 2020, Lise wrote provenance records for each of her paintings in the show. She decided on this format to document and convey the creation process of her paintings as well as their exhibition participations and changes of ownership. The latter played an especially interesting role in regards to “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, a painting which is part of the group exhibition in Vienna. In "The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman", the artist interweaves “the violent refusal” of the character of Jeanne Dielman in Chantal Ackerman’s 1975 film with the events surrounding the sale of the work in the late 1990s.

Tamara Faith Berger is the author of Lie With Me (2001), The Way of the Whore (2004) – republished together as Little Cat in 2013 – Maidenhead (2012) and Kuntalini (2016). Her fifth book, Queen Solomon, was published by Coach House Books in October 2018. It was nominated for a Trillium Book Award. Her work has been published in Apology, Canadian Art, Taddle Creek and Canadian Notes and Queries. She runs Smutburger, a literary collective. She lives in Toronto.

Music written and produced by Mike Ratledge
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The fifth episode consists of an audio story with background music written by the artist last year during the first COVID lockdown in the US. The artist was born in Washington D.C. in 1941. Today he lives and works in California. The composition of the script was determined by chance, as Leavitt drew words and pictures one by one from a stack of cards. The result is the story of Bonny and Oskar who stumble across a pile of photos, old notes and waste, which inspire them to arbitrary daydreams. The story ends with the revealing sentence: “Yes, but the roulette wheel is a beautiful thing“. The theatric music and the artist's sonorous voice create a kind of cinematic dramaturgy, which is supplemented by the description of vacant sets and distinctive props that evoke memories of Leavitt's drawings in the exhibition in Vienna.

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Podcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

The fourth episode presents a reading from Masha Tupitsyn’s book Picture Cycle, published by MIT Press in 2019. In the book Tupitsyn melds film criticism, philosophy, and autobiography and investigates personal and cultural annals of memory, identity, and spectatorship. The chapter “I give you my word” deals explicitly with Masha’s film/audio-essay Love Sounds, which is currently on view at the gallery. The other chapter presented in this episode is called “Famous Tombs” and focuses on the 1990s love relationship of Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp. Both chapters are read by Caitlin Mulligan.

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The third episode presents an audio drama and self-composed song by Yong Xiang Li. In the short piece, the artist tells a friend on the phone about rediscovering an old song he wrote himself three years earlier, after a memorable encounter with a stranger in a nightclub. Now, years later, the description of the situation seems so foreign and yet so familiar to him. What do we expect from a conversation with a stranger and how much of what is spoken gets lost in both translation and the “messiness of the social”?

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The second episode presents a reading by artist Matt Mullican, who is working between New York and Berlin. Born in California in 1951 where he studied at CalArts in the Post Studio Art Class by John Baldessari, Mullican’s work is often associated with the New York Pictures Generation, testing out the boundaries between reality and fiction in regards to images, signs and symbols that surround us in our everyday lives. For the podcast the artist himself reads his text based piece Birth to Death List from 1973, which is part of the physical exhibition in Vienna.

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Podcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

The first episode of the Indistinct Chatter Podcast features artist Robin Waart who is working between Amsterdam and Vienna. His works focus on moments where ‘found’ cinematic images and the language of love and dedication meet. For his piece titled “Would you…”, that is part of the exhibition, Robin selected 16 movie scenes in which one character asks another out. In this episode Robin will do a reading from his new book Evol/Love, which features 160 movie stills that each, in some way, mention the word love. By mirroring the subtitles and the images, Love has evolved to Evol, which obviously rings close to its antonym ‘evil’ and in combination with the decision to invert the colors of the still images and print the book on pink paper all romantic associations have become somewhat distorted.