Syjettes

Four speakers report about an accident which occurred a year before at Praterstern. For three weeks Mina Lunzer’s radio play was installed inside a publicly accessible car, which had been driven into a facade at Praterstern. Together with samples of the noise of machines and people screaming three of these witness accounts were subsequently used as audio tracks of the film version [...] Syjettes can be read as a discourse analysis of the social, underpinned by media theory. Lunzer appropriates old and new media to explore how their inherent rules participate in determining a certain representation of reality. This does not mean however that artistic cinematographic practice were immediately to be seen as (media) theory. [...] At stake are the means of communication within which the comparabilities between theory and art articulate themselves as unsurmountable differences. The disputable narratives presented in Syjettes mirror the processes of social inclusion and exclusion which form the basis of the creation of a public sphere.

(Sabeth Buchmann)

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