Luzie Meyer, VOIR DIRE
A cooperation between Collection
and Archive & Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
The event is part of
the lecture series Repetitions. Artistic Perspectives, organized by: Stefanie Kitzberger, Eva Maria Stadler &
Jenni Tischer
For the film Voir Dire (2024), Luzie Meyer invited professional actor Maria Lehberg to one
of Berlin’s District Court Buildings, to re-enact a key scene from the 1979 courtroom drama "...And Justice for All" featuring
Al Pacino. In the original film scene, defense lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Pacino) exposes the violence of the corrupt legal system
in a spectacularly emotional monologue.
Through repeated rehearsals
and the recontextualization of the narrative with a female*-reading performer, and within a German courtroom, Voir Dire
is a Ficto-Docu that deals with the ways in which individual cognitive biases and emotional investments play into the formation
of normativity. Both her film and her subsequent reading, Luzie Meyer artistically explores repetition as a subject-forming
device.
In Memory of Marina Vishmidt
Forthcoming:
January 15, 2025: Ghislaine
Leung, QUESTIONS
January 22, 2025: Jenni Tischer, HARD FACTS (I SEE / YOU MEAN)
Works by Ghislaine Leung and
Luzie Meyer are on view in the exhibition Ins Dunkle Schwimmen at the University Gallery of Angewandte until January 2025.
