For an online discussion and lecture we will have the filmmakers Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin as guests on the screen in the Labortheater. The seats are limited but you all are very welcome to join.
The two will share some clips and procresses with us and we will discuss their work and how it relates with script, music and set to a Gesamtkunstwerk.
This invitation also addresses the Fakultät I or people from outside the HfBK context.
Ryan Trecartin (b. 1981) is an American Texas-born artist. Trecartin has had solo shows at several institutions, including Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, The Power Plant in Toronto, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in Paris, MoMA PS1 in New York and Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo. He has also participated in prestigious exhibitions such as the Berlin Biennale 2016, the Venice Biennale 2013 and the Whitney Biennial 2005 where he was the youngest artist to be included at the age of 25. Among several prizes, he is the recipient of the Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, the world’s largest juried individual fine art prize and a Heritage Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His creative partner and long-term collaborator is artist Lizzie Fitch, whom he has been working with since 2001. Trecartin currently lives and works in Ohio.
Lizzie Fitch (b. 1981) is an American artist who works in the mediums of sculpture, video, performance, and installation art. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Her long-term collaborator is Ryan Trecartin; their videos, including the series "Any Ever" (2010), have been widely exhibited internationally. Her sculpture and installation work, which have doubled as sets and props in videos and performances, often combines consumer products and pre-fab furniture into architectural assemblages. Her performance work includes "The Experimental People Band," a performance group that has performed at the New York Underground Film Festival (2005) and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2008) She has had solo shows in New Galerie in Paris, Foxy Productions and Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York, Crane Arts Center and QED Gallery in Los Angeles. Her collaborations with Ryan Trecartin have been seen at MAMA (Rotterdam), MoMA PS1 (New York), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, New Galerie, and Cour Carrée du Louvre (Paris), and the 2013 Venice Biennale.
