Statement #15 | Eva Seiler & Johanna Tinzl — Beyond Future

Statement #15

Eva Seiler & Johanna Tinzl — Beyond Future

Film screening and talk with the artists January 18, 2022, 6:30 pm

Online screening January 18, 2022, 12 pm – midnight

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Exhibition

Eva Seiler & Johanna Tinzl — Beyond Future

December 14, 2021 – January 18, 2022

Film screening
January 18, 2022, 6:30 pm

From Detroit to the San Francisco Bay Area. From the Motor City to Silicon Valley. From our past into the future? In July 2016, shortly before the presidential election of the United States of America, Eva Seiler and Johanna Tinzl journeyed across the continent. Since then, they have been working at various intensities with the resulting film footage and will present the final cut of their video installation Beyond Future for the first time in Kunstraum Lakeside. The two artists chose the format of a road movie for their film essay. In this genre, traveling long distances on country roads and highways is a metaphor for the quest for freedom and one’s authentic self. However, Seiler and Tinzl are not primarily interested in identity issues but in pursuit of “images of that which has not yet materialized,” as the duo puts it. “We are working on an artistic film and research project that investigates how much future is embedded in our present time, which, in turn, is subject to historical preconditions.” The United States—with its “go west” and “manifest destiny” ideals dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, its widespread faith in technology, and its juxtapositions of different lifestyles and visions of the future—offered the artists a multifaceted research field.

Eva Seiler (b. 1979 in Germany) lives and works in Vienna.| Johanna Tinzl (b. 1976 in Austria) lives and works in Vienna.
www.johannatinzl.net