Thresholds

“For his exhibition Thresholds at the Dinzlschloss in Villach, Patrick Topitschnig has focused on the creation of a virtual reality version of Shakespeare’s tragedy classic Hamlet. He artistically accompanied the rehearsals in Villach and Ljubljana as well as the film recording and not only documented them, but transcended them through his specific gaze. Just as […]

The Inscrutable Sea

The Inscrutable Sea aktiviert anhand verschiedener Arbeiten die Wahrnehmung von Raum und Zeit und deren undurchschaubare Abgründigkeit: Mit präzise komponierten Tableaus und minimalen Bewegungen verdichtet die Videoarbeit Carusel das Bild eines unterirdischen, postapokalyptischen Spielplatzes, während irgendwo in einem nie sichtbaren „Draußen“ oder „Oben“ eines jener zahlreichen Untergangsszenarien seinen Lauf nimmt, das unser popkultureller Zeitgeist in […]

Careful, Icarus.

The show “Careful, Icarus.” by Vienna based video and sound artist Patrick Topitschnig proposes a formal inversion that inherently affects the delivery of content as shaped by its original medium. Following processes of extraction / expansion, works become material for other works: videos become material for generating photographs. Reinventing different narratives other than the work […]

HAFEN

In his film and video installations, Patrick Topitschnig poses questions about the visuality of the diegetic space, which he almost exclusively presents in fragmented form. He combines this space, among others, to the Leibinz’scher Resonanzraum, by giving the voice and tone a weight, which imitates the conditions of real space. These methodologies can be projected […]