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YES & NO Presents
Queercore
Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Celebrating the publication of YES & NO Kino+Film Austria Opus One and Opus Two, made with the support of the Austrian Film Institute, YES & NO presents Queercore.

This programme focuses on the close 1980s Super 8 collaboration between Ursula Pürrer and Ashley Hans Scheirl. The collection presented is unique in (queer) film/art history, and seems like a stroke of liberation. The films are an expression of DIY cinema. Bursting with passion, they subjectively attempt to perceive voids and produce (sensual) fantasy worlds. They playfully combine performance art, painting, drawing, stage design, and (Punk) music with sexual fetishes and expressive cinematic borrowings from sci-fi movies. Unusual costumes, suggestive make-up, hand-made props, animated scenes, and self-modulated (city) models characterise their visuals. In addition, queer/lesbian sign-language perverts or subverts everyday symbols and objects. 

Alongside humorously staged S&M practices, piss games are also part of the vocabulary that comes into play in the erotically charged spaces and establishes, through artistic means, community relationships. The films represent an expression of consistently positive sexual energies. Energies that don’t give a damn about bourgeois morality and instead celebrate sexual pluralism. 
- Dietmar Schwärzler, sixpackfilm, Vienna

The artists will be joined for an on-stage conversation with Piero Tomassoni, contributing writer to YES & NO Kino+Film Austria Opus One and Opus Two, board member of the Museo Hermann Nitsch, Naples.

Programme:

Vorspann / Opening reel
Hochhaus und Reißverschluss (Skyscraper & Zipper), 1984, 1 min
Ein Schlauchboot und Austern (A Rubber Dinghy & Oysters), 1985, 3 min
Nacht-Plakat-U-Bahn (Night-Poster-Subway), 1984, 3 min 
Sex & Crime, 1984, 3 min
Piss in Rosa (Piss in Pink) 1984, 2 min
Body-building, 1984, 3 min 
Ostern 84 (Easter 84), 1984, 6 min
 
Q&A with the artists
 
Im Garten der gelben G. (In the Garden of the Yellow G.), 1985, 9 min
Kampf und Kuss (Battle & Kiss), 1984, 4 min      
Das Schwarze Herz Tropft – Bastelanleitung zu Rinnen (Black Heart Leaking - Instruction for Female Amateur Constructors), 1984, 13 min
Gezacktes Rinnsal schleicht sich schamlos schenkelnässend an (Zig-Zag Streamlet Sneaking in Shamelessly Wetting Thighs), 1985, 4 min
Super 8 Girl Games, 1985, 2 min
Rote Schnitte und die Luft dazwischen (Red Cuts and the Air In-between), 1985, 4 min
Rhabarber und Zucker (Rhubarb & Sugar), 1985, 1 min
Gleichzeitig Nackt (Simultaneously Naked), 2024, 3 min
 
Q&A with the artists


 
Book tickets
06:45 pm
Fri, 16 May 2025
Cinema 1
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