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Video Vernissage: New Times – New Pictures
Monday, June 23rd, 1986
ORF-Regional Studio of Upper Austria, Studio 3 and FS 1, 10:05 p.m.
ORF-Videonale 86
11:30 p.m. First performance: "Still Life – Queen Zero" by Bernd Kracke with Romy Haag as Queen Zero.
Consecutively:
Perfect Lives – An Opera for Television by Robert Ashley.
Production: John Sanborn.
Part IV: The Bar (Differences).
Rodney, the bartender, meets Buddy and his friend.VIDEO VERNISSAGE Live from the ORF Studio of Upper Austria. First performance of commissioned works of Austrian and international video and computer artists on the topic "New Times New Pictures". This is the first performance of videos by Max Almy, Klaus vom Bruch, Valle Export, Hervé Huitric, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Bernd Kracke, Ulrike Rosenbach, John Sanborn, Woodi Vasulka, Jane Veeder, Peter Weibel, Inge Graf + ZYX.
Moderator in the studio: Robert Hochner.
Responsible: Christine Schöpf.
Director: Wolfgang Speiser.
BERND KRACKE:
QUEEN ZERO
THE PAST OF THE FUTURE IS PRESENT, THINKS QUEEN ZERO AND STARTS REMEMBERING
THE PROJECT "STILL LIFE QUEEN ZERO" IS A MEDIA TALE, AN ELECTRONIC PICTURE STORY, DESCRIBING THE EXISTENCE OF QUEEN ZERO IN AN ASSOCIATIVE NON-LINEAR WAY.
A STORY TELLER ACTS AS INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN THE AUDIENCE AND THE PICTURE STORIES, GIVING HINTS AT THE CHARACTER OF "QUEEN ZERO" WHO IS DESCRIBED AS RULER OF AN IMMATERIAL EMPIRE OF ELECTRONICALLY STORED MEMORIES.
ACT I
"QUEEN ZERO – EMPRESS OF THE NOTHING"
DIN-NORM/UNIVERSE/BORN OUTSIDE; IN.
BEING HUMAN. NO or NOT.
PRO-GRAMMED, VISIONS-ABSORBER, SPHERE, UNI-VERSALITY, COMPATIBLE, BEING HUMAN. NO or NOT.
STEREOTYPE STRUCTURAL, SUBSYSTEMS THE HERE AND NOW/THE HEREAFTER, LASER CONSULTS MEMBRANES, PERIPHERAL PLASMA.
– DIDN'T YOU?
BEING HUMAN, NO or NOT.
RETINA SUPERVISES CONTRAST. DIGITAL EXISTENCE.
NO or NOT. BUT ALWAYS ZERO:
ROUND THE POOL OF NOTHINGNESS.
NO SMOKE/NO SMELL, NO TOUCH/NO STOP.
MATTER IS NOTHING. MEGA-BYTE RULES.
SHE'S THE QUEEN. ON TOP OF ZERO.
THE MEMORIES ACTIVATED BY QUEEN ZERO ARE VISUALIZED AS ELECTRONIC "STILL LIFES", DERIVING THEIR TENSIONS FROM THE CONTRAST BETWEEN APPARENT STAND-STILL IN MEMORY AND LIFE THAT CAN BE RE-ANIMATED IN THEM.
ACT 2
"ELECTRONIC TRIBALISM – NEW PRIMITIVISM"
MATTER OF YOUR SOUL, CODED CONSCIOUSNESS.
COMPLEX RELAXED, TRILLIONS IN THE STORAGE, ZERO – CATCH THE NEWS!
ORGAN OF YOUR QUANTS, INTERCONNECTED AFFECTS.
DYNAMISM ACTIVATED, REACTIONS IN TIME SCHEDULE.
ZERO – FEEL MY VOLTAGE, TRIBAL, LOYALTY.
THE AMBIGUITY OF THE TERM "STILL LIFE" FOR ELECTRONIC STORAGE MEDIA, WHERE THE CLAIMS OF LONG-TERM DURABILITY ARE COMBINED WITH THOSE OF SHORT-LIVED TRANSITORINESS, IS VISUALIZED IN THOROUGHLY STYLED "VIDEO PAINTINGS".
ACT 3
"REFLECTIONS IN THE DIGITAL MIRROR"
A.24 ZERO/1 ZERO 5/7 3 ZERO ZERO/329 6 2 2/B-5 7 ZERO 9/114 ZERO 5 3 4/C-8481/ZERO 3 WHAT COUNTS –21 ZERO 5/9 3 1 C-2 ZERO ZERO 715/314 ZERO 25714/493 ZERO/A-315 ZERO 1 IS NOT THE –643 ZERO/23 57/B-444 ZERO/1273 1 2 ZERO ZERO 8/C-573 ZERO 4/31336/B-1577 ZERO 91– EXISTENCE.
THE
VISION
OF VISION
IS REALITY
QUEEN ZERO PERSONIFIES AN ENERGY FIELD OF A PERCEPTIVE CAPACITY BRIDGING TIME AND SPACE AND OF UNLIMITED IMAGINATION; THEY BECOME THE PREREQUISITES OF HER EXISTENCE ON THE MEDIUM.
ACT 4
"MEMORIES: PAST – PRESENCE FUTURE"
SUBJECTIVITY NEEDS NEW FORMS. THE FIRST ECONOMIC CATEGORY OF THE NOTHING IS THE CONCEPT OF SELF-BIRTH. ITS OPERATIVE PRESENCE IS OPEN,
EMPTY, ENTIRE, BETWEEN THE LINEAR IDENTITY. WITH THE NOTHING AS CIRCULAR FIGURE AND ELEMENTARY CONTEXTURE, EVERYTHING BECOMES TABULAR KENOGRAMMAR.
ORIGIN – NOTHING , NOTHING – JOY
ESTABLISHED – NOTHING, NOTHING – MECHANISM , FUNCTIONAL – NOTHING NOTHING – CIRCLE
NOTHING – ZERO – NOTHING
THREE TIMES THE SAME KENOGRAMM
QUEEN ZERO NEEDS NEITHER REMOTE CONTROL NOR GROUND GLASS, NEITHER KEYBOARD NOR HARD DISC: SHE IS THE PROGRAM OF HER OWN CHOICE. THE SURROUNDINGS AS INTERACTIVELY REACTING ENVIRONMENT ADAPTS ITSELF TO HER IDEAS AND IMAGINATIONS.
ACT 5
"IMAGINATION"
GREAT SECRET, ZERO-TIME, WINNEBAGO,
ZHANSHI!
ARTE FACTUM EST.
MAN-MADE WINGS, KNOWS IKARUS, ARE WORTHLESS. ZERO DESTROYS THE NOTHING: PLAYING, PLAY; QUEEN ZERO.
(Text quotations to the various acts by Stefan Sauer)
"STILL LIFE QUEEN ZERO"
produced in co-operation with the ORF, Upper Austrian Regional Studios
Cast:
Queen Zero: Romy Haag
Story teller: Wolfgang Scheid
Media Man: Bernd Kracke
E-Cameras: Karl Benedikter, Peter Puluj
Sound: Walter Buchmann
MAZ-Cuts: Alfred Kastenhuber
Music: Roland Gotz, Michael Gerlach, Eberhard Fortmann
Texts: Romy Haag (song texts), Stefan Sauer (texts for the story teller)
Costumes: Prof. Istvan Ekrich, Jens Kruger, Martina Glomb, Brigitte Stepputtis, Dina Rugani
Make-up: Axel Wilms
Assistant director: Ingrid Haimböck
Assistant executive producer: Susann Swoboda
Editing: Dr. Christine Schöpf
Script and direction: Bernd Kracke
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