{"id":517,"date":"2019-10-04T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/?p=517"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:31:20","slug":"speaking-images-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/speaking-images-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Images (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentum.org\/en\/exhibitions\/speaking_images\/\">Fluentum Collection Berlin<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>With Patty Chang, Frank Heath, Hiwa K, Adelita Husni-Bey, Sven Johne, Ferhat \u00d6zg\u00fcr, Stefan Panhans, Martin Skauen, Hito Steyerl, Vibeke Tandberg, Ignacio Uriarte, Katarina Zdjelar, curated by Alexander Koch and Nikolaus Oberhuber<\/h2>\n<p>Moving images are the principal medium of the present. Videos, films, 3D animations, virtual worlds are also the defining formats of contemporary art. The political dimensions of our own lives, social challenges, cruelties ancient and recent, the great questions of who we are and who we might yet be\u2014all these manifest themselves with unrivaled lucidity on the screens and monitors that are the visual signature of this time of wrenching changes.<\/p>\n<p>But moving images do not just show\u2014they also speak. It hardly needs to be said that films are essentially works of auditory art as well; everyone knows that, from documentaries to computer games, spoken and written words are virtually indispensable components of the sound and video tracks. Still, there are moving\u2014and deeply moving\u2014works of art that give far greater weight to the word, the sentence, the narrative than is customary practice in the various filmic genres; works in which language is at the heart of the action and a genuine material of art. The phrase &#8220;moving images&#8221; does not do these works justice: they are speaking images. Images of language and writing in motion, addressed to the ear or presented to the reading eye.<\/p>\n<p>This emphasis is not in contradiction with the visual quality that is no less characteristic of speaking images. Yet a disconnect often runs between image and language, a rift, and this gap is where the work&#8217;s true space comes into being, a space that we confront and that needs us to give it substance. It is a fertile space, and the imaginings and speculations, the knowledge and ignorance it engenders merit a dedicated consideration. Proposing to survey this space, the exhibition comes at a time when both images and words are too often and indiscriminately taken at face value; when the political conversation tends to pin them down on a single message, a single meaning, that can never be theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fluentum Collection Berlin<\/p>\n<p>On the invitation of Fluentum Collection Berlin Nikolaus Oberhuber and I developed this project, that listens to moving image artworks as much as it looks at them, focusing on their audible, sonic concepts and qualities. With Patty Chang, Frank Heath, Hiwa K, Adelita Husni-Bey, Sven Johne, Ferhat \u00d6zg\u00fcr, Stefan Panhans, Martin Skauen, Hito Steyerl, Vibeke Tandberg, Ignacio Uriarte, Katarina Zdjelar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","entry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexanderkoch.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}