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.
