Artist-in-Residence
ANDREAS WUTZ
German media artist with talk, workshop and exhibition
November 2017
LIFT PIX Film Studio Immersion Program
Supported by the Goethe-Institut
Focusing on the media history of urban and natural landscapes, and investigating the social-political and historical relevance of everyday situations, audio-visual artist Andreas Wutz’s concepts relate to historical and contemporary time. He will be in residence at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) for the month of November.
Wutz will be working on a new project called 80 seconds in Toronto, a mixed media installation (16mm film, 35mm slides, text footage, field recordings and hand-made optical sound). He explores local districts in Toronto's West End at night-time to combine or contrast the images with specific sounds recorded in that neighbourhood, or with sounds that result from exposing found objects or site-specific patterns and structures onto an optical sound track. Eventually, all recordings and footage will result in a 2-screen 16mm film loop installation and a 35mm single-slide projection. The project title refers to the photo-based film 1 second in Montreal by Michael Snow. At the same it alludes to the fact that the cyclic rhythm of a carousel slide projector is defined by 80 slides.
Program:
Nightwalk: The Films of Andreas Wutz
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
7:00pm
PIX Film Gallery
1411 Dufferin unit C 129
Free
The Self and the Camera
Monday, November 13, 2017 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Monday, November 20, 2017 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
1137 Dupont Street (at Gladstone Avenue)
Costs: $90 LIFT members, $110 non-members.
Pre-registration Required. Enrolment limited to: 12
Register: 416.588.6444
Exhibition 80 seconds in Toronto
November 29 - December 3, 2017
PIX Film Gallery
Free
Andreas Wutz is an independent artist. He studied at the Academies of Fine Art in Munich and Düsseldorf and graduated in painting. His pratice is focused on photography, installation, and audio-visual art. Specializing in 16mm film, he recently worked on a photo project in Albacete, Spain, and long-term research in Zimbabwe. Wutz has been teaching Audio-Visual Art, Film Art and New Media at the Instituto Europeo de Diseño in Barcelona and at UCSD, University of California, San Diego.
Part of the Goethe-Institut’s focus on German Film