INSIDES
Vernissage: 18.06.2009, 6.30 pm, Room 69, Lerchfelder Straße 69, 1070 Vienna
Installation: 19.06. - 30.06.2009 along Lerchenfelder Straße

Audio- & video installation in public space
A project by Frederike Schweizer and Sissa Micheli
in cooperation with arminutes within the framework of "Lebendige Lerchenfelder Straße"

Sound track under: www.lerchenfelderstrasse.at/aktuell/insides
Special train ride of the Wiener Linien: 18. and 30.06.2009, 19.30 hrs

The video insides is part of the “Lebendige Lerchenfelder Straße” project. The production is about the Lerchenfelder Straße. In a succession of fictitious scenes, the film depicts the stories and happenings taking place behind the façades of public life, hidden from the everyday gaze of the passer-by. These phantasmagorical scenes deal with relationships. They are either about the confinement and ties of relation-ships, or private, intimate matters lying on the borders of the taboo. The scenes do not follow logical, linear narratives; these are depictions of unreal moments meant to highlight the inconclusive and the unconscious while simultaneously broaching the issue of the often fragile, precarious relationship between interior and exterior spaces. Through this confrontation with the inner life, insides should be viewed as a ‘mirror for the circumstances of existence,’ and the viewer of “insides” is able to perceive mental states and sensitivities that are normally meant to be hidden. The boundaries between the inner and the outer are ripped open, and, for a short moment, the walls and the streets in ‘Lerchenfeld’ are permeable, providing a fleeting glance into the dreamed and imagined world behind the street façades.
– Patricia Grzonka