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.
