At the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz this autumn, during Austrian election season, a large banner hung over the façade of KM– Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien. The banner showed a photograph of Austrian artist, curator and musician Jörg Schlick, sat at a café table in a meadow wearing a beige dress, sunglasses, a hat and brown leather sandals, and holding two crutches in his left hand. In the background, one sees a pond and hair-curler shaped sculptures on a hill. If one knew of the artist’s 2005 cancer diagnosis, the dress could be identified as a hospital gown. There is a fragile glamour in the staging of ambiguity in this photograph, taken a year before Schlick’s death in December 2005.
For Frieze Film at Frieze London 2015, Thirteen Black Cats presented 1/56, the first iteration of a multi-authored moving image work inspired by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s novel Antwerp (2002).
Commissioned for Frieze London 2015, Xavier Cha produced a series of short films capturing actors as they battle conflicting emotions, held in tense states of physical and psychological discord.
