Wien unter Drogen | Vienna Under the Influence of Drugs

Through lectures and film screenings, the thematic evening will focus on drug use during the First World War: artist-in-residence Beate Passow (GER) will screen two works in the exhibition which take a closer look at the use and abuse of drugs in WWI by means of literary examples.

From the sparkling wine tax to bloodlust to an escape with a heroine of reason: Cosima Reif (Zufallsproduktion, Vienna) delivers a lecture that paints a realistic picture the nebulization tactics of the governmental drug policy arising from the War to multimedia projection by Andre Werner (Directors Lounge, Berlin), emptying a quite legal magnum in the process.

Date  Wed., June 17,  2015, 7 pm
Location  freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL

image credit: courtesy Zufallsproduktion

Recently, we were invited to compile a series of film screenings for PCFS | The Post Colonial Flagship Store. Joachim Seinfeld and André Werner curated three screenings, Greeting cards from reality.  Short and experimental filmlets from all parts of the world shed light on the ongoing impact of the colonial background on contemporary life. 

Reason enough to take a closer look the Post Colonial Flagship Store that opened its doors for two months at the Freiraum quartier 21 international at the Museums Quartier Vienna.

The PCFS exhibition project camouflages itself as a branded Popup shop, cleverly playing with the iconography of noble flagship stores as found in the centre of metropolises. The artworks are presented as consumer goods, dealing with a new, clandestine form of colonialism.

The curators Sven Kalden and Georg Klein made the PCFS a post-colonial rollercoaster ride of clever loops and surprising twists.

The whole Post Colonial Flagship Store is a sublimal, hidden persuasion to rethink the mechanisms behind our culture of consumption. The PCFS Vienna closed its doors at the end of November; new Pop-up stores in Berlin and Paris are in the pipeline.

Next time you are on a shopping spree, look out for a PCFS | The Post Colonial Flagship Store near you.

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The full program of Greeting Cards from Reality at Directors Lounge.

pictured: Bernhard Draz
Echte österreichische Führerkugeln | Genuine Austrian Führer Balls (2014)

Directors Lounge at the PCFS – Post Colonial Flagship Store, Quartier 21, Vienna.

The “Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)” exhibition project (concept: Sven Kalden and Georg Klein) showcases artworks camouflaged as consumer goods, and engages with a new, surreptitious form of colonialism.

The PCFS opened at quartier 21, Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art” in the MuseumsQuartier.

We participate, thanks to the generous support of the artist in residence program of  quartier 21,  with a row of three screenings, Greeting cards from reality

Part III “Values” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 18th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Alan Aranha and Bharat Mirle IN Junction 01:41 2012

Max Hattler DE Collision 2:30 2005

KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) DE Thank You Third World #1 1 min 2009

Dalia Huerta Cano  MX  ¿Olvida usted algo?  27:47  2012

KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) DE Thank You Third World #2 1 min 2009

Barbara Marheineke DE Green Gold 13:10 2012,
courtesy aug&ohr medien

KRONCK (aka Maximilian Gerlach & Jessica Benzing) DE Thank You Third World #3 1 min 2009

Mihai Grecu  FR  We’ll Become Oil  8 min  2011

ZhenChen Liu CN Under Construction 10 min, DV, 2007

Elías León Siminiani ES The Commute 12min 30s 2009

Sirin Bahar Demirel TR Living with Leviathan 11:00 2013

Zaoli Zhong CN A Dangerous Question 05:35 2012

Tokomburu / Ion Papaspyrou and Zisis Kokkinidis GR I Am Not Here Now 09:30 2013

Hussen Ibraheem LB Typo 07:00 2013

TRT ca. 112 min

pictured:
Zaoli Zhong CN A Dangerous Question 05:35 2012 (top)
Mihai Grecu  FR  We’ll Become Oil  8 min  2011

Directors Lounge at the PCFS – Post Colonial Flagship Store, Quartier 21, Vienna.

The “Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)” exhibition project (concept: Sven Kalden and Georg Klein) showcases artworks camouflaged as consumer goods, and engages with a new, surreptitious form of colonialism.

The PCFS opened at quartier 21, Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art” in the MuseumsQuartier.

We participate with a row of three screenings, Greeting cards from reality

Part II “The Kids” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 4th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Habib Sadaat AF Kite of Wishes 13.27 2012

Ali Asgari IR Barbie 12:30 2012

Jimmy Hendrickx  BE Semalu 19:37 2013

Romain Gavras FR Stress 6 min 48s 2008 Music: Justice

Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera ES A Better Place 04:40 2013

David Munoz ES A Proposito de Ndugu / About Ndugu 16:00 2013

Ines Enciso ES Mofetas/Skunks 10 min 2008

Sahim Omar Kalifa BE/AE/IQ Baghdad Messi 16:00 2013

TRT 100 min

Part III “Values” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 18th. 7:30pm, free admission.

still taken from: Sahim Omar Kalifa BE/AE/IQ Baghdad Messi 16:00 2013

Greeting cards from reality at the PCFS – Post Colonial Flagship Store.

The “Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)” exhibition project (concept: Sven Kalden and Georg Klein) showcases artworks camouflaged as consumer goods, and engages with a new, surreptitious form of colonialism.

The PCFS just opened at quartier 21, Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art” in the MuseumsQuartier.

European and international artists reference the colonial background of their respective countries and its impact on contemporary life. Dependence, opportunities, hopes, and issues of identity are addressed, as are global investment strategies and the migration of labour.

We participate with a row of three screenings, Greeting cards from reality. 

Part I “Wanderers between the world” presented by Joachim Seinfeld, will be screened October 10th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Daniel Nicolae Djamo RO Progress Is A Beautiful Thing 04:46 2013

Fernando Jose Pereira PT News of Desolation 12:33 2013

Avi Dabach IL Excavation 3045/2013 06:00 2013

Hala Georges GB/SY From Rochester With Love 09:08 2013

Rob Brown GB Echoes 11min 38s 2009

Cristine Brache US Ad for Self-Immolation 03:23 2013

Victor Orozco Ramirez MX Reality 2.0 11:00 2012

Maximilian Westphal DE The New Killing Fields 13:00 2004-2009

Masahiro Sugano KH Why I Write  07:33 2011 Performance by Kosal Khiev

Irina Birger NL Irina Birger Thinks Drawing Is Important 15:13 2010

Schneider Robson S.B.B. Swiss Bolly Bahn 07:00

curated by André Werner and Joachim Seinfeld

quartier21 is a support structure that offers space and support to ca. 50 cultural initiatives within the MuseumsQuartier Wien. It is an integral part of the overall concept of the MuseumsQuartier.

The various groups represented here have transformed the quartier21 into Vienna’s center for contemporary “applied art.” The emphasis is on digital culture, media art, conceptual art, sound art and game culture, street art, design, photography, literature, and fashion.

Part II “The Kids” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 4th. 7:30pm, free admission.

Part III “Values” presented by André Werner, will be screened November 18th. 7:30pm, free admission.