PARALLEL VIENNA
From September 7 - 12, 2021, Parallel Vienna will take place on the grounds of the former Semmelweis Women's Clinic at
1180 Vienna, Hockegasse 37.
We are showing solo presentations by Lavinia Lanner and Egor Lovki
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Lavinia Lanner
Lavinia Lanner's series Your secret, perched in ecstasy (2021) is based on the poem Cocoon above! Cocoon below! by the American poet Emily Dickinson. While it describes metamorphosis in an extended, abstract sense, the large-format drawing (340 x 150 cm) captures a particular moment in this development. Cocoons, or rather worms, threads, stalks or the like snake their way towards the ceiling and sometimes grow beyond it. Standing in front of them feels oppressive. They tower over our bodies, almost overhanging them. To perceive these creatures as a counterpart requires particular courage. They could be lurking in our slow movements and snap at the right moment. A certain powerlessness also creeps in. You can't face them on an equal footing, it's uncomfortable, your neck hurts. The surface of the shapes consists of bundles of lines, as the artist has repeatedly used in past works. Smooth as an eel, soft or steely, the whole spectrum of haptics seems possible. She does not dissolve what - if anything - is wrapped up in them. Cocooning is a term that has been used particularly in the last year to describe the phenomenon of withdrawing into one's own environment, into one's private life. Understanding isolation and retreat as a layer that wraps itself around our bodies could be read in the forms covered in strokes. The artist trusts that: "The oppressive feeling quickly dissipates. You stand in the room, look up, step back - it's not possible because of the size of the room and then you come to terms with the beings and accept the power imbalance due to a lack of alternatives in the hope that they are well-disposed towards you. That's basically a good metaphor for looking at art."
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Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so
What all the world suspect?
An hour, and gay on every tree
Your secret, perched in ecstasy
Defies imprisonment!
An hour in Chrysalis to pass,
Then gay above receding grass
A Butterfly to go!
A moment to interrogate,
Then wiser than a "Surrogate,"
The Universe to know!
Emily Dickinson
Lavinia Lanner, Untitled 1-3, from the series: Your secret, perched in ecstasy, 2021
Egor Lovki
Egor Lovki shows works on Greek mythology.
Roman and Greek mythology has been passed down from person to person for thousands of years and its stories are still told, taught and reworked today. This often happens without questioning the events that occur.
In his contributions to Parallel 2021, Egor Lovki takes up scenes from "Leda and the Swan" and "Rape of Europa". He uses humor to criticize the mostly male dominance in mythology. In the foreground is the call to look at familiar narratives from a different perspective and to question them.
Egor Lovki, born 1997 in Kazan, Russia, lives and works in Vienna. Since 2020 he has been a student at the University of Applied Arts in the Painting and Animation Film program.
Egor Lovki in his studio in front of a work he created for the presentation at Parallel.
Performance by Sara Lanner
Sara Lanner, Lavinia Lanner's sister, will be performing on Sunday, September 12 at 6 p.m. on the stage between the two buildings, House A and House B.
Sara Lanner (1991) is a dancer, choreographer and performative artist in the fields of dance and visual arts. In her work, she focuses on the body in relation to its context and its existence as social choreography and sculpture. Her artworks take place on stages, in exhibition spaces, in public spaces or in off-spaces. Most recently, her artistic work was awarded the H13 Lower Austria for Performance and the Ö1 Audience Award as part of the Ö1 Talent Exchange at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Sara Lanner_Material Studies No. 3_Video Still (c) Nils Olger
Material Studies No. 3, 2020
Performance (10 min.)
Material Studies No. 3 examines performative actions as a process of remembering and links them to a personal and collective history. The changing identities of a folding object and the state of presence and absence are transferred to the performer's body and make the exhibition of ambivalent body images visible.
Material Studies No. 3 is one of four performative material studies to date (Material Studies/Drawing, Ping Pong, FLIP). Since 2015, Sara Lanner has been investigating the performativity of materials, actions and forms in this series.