Sep 08 2023 105 mins
For this episode we talked with the artist and filmmaker Tijana Lazović whose work is part of the exhibition "Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022". She shows her two videos "Sans Soleil" and "Soleil" on two opposing flat screens as a video installation. Her piece talks about the loss of a close friend. We see found footage combined with images from her personal archive. The work meditates on loss, mental health and memory – on one screen the personal digital images are glitching and sometimes they seem to almost vanish completely. It makes the viewer reflect closely on how our own memories keep in motion constantly and how they are maybe glitching as they change over time, transforming us as we go through our lives.
The interview begins not with Tijana Lazović’s work but with more basic questions on how she started her artistic practice, on growing up in Belgrade and how she came to Vienna. The conversation then covers a lot of ground and touches on art making, philosophy and politics, and on how her interest in science influences her artistic work.
Credits:
Written and narrated by Michael Simku
Interview by Michael Simku and Martin Walkner
Sound Mixing by Konrad Politanski
Sound Editing by Michael Simku
Music by Konrad Politanski
The interview begins not with Tijana Lazović’s work but with more basic questions on how she started her artistic practice, on growing up in Belgrade and how she came to Vienna. The conversation then covers a lot of ground and touches on art making, philosophy and politics, and on how her interest in science influences her artistic work.
Credits:
Written and narrated by Michael Simku
Interview by Michael Simku and Martin Walkner
Sound Mixing by Konrad Politanski
Sound Editing by Michael Simku
Music by Konrad Politanski