HD Video 4:3, 4 minutes 40 seconds, found footage, color and black and white, stereo, sound by Billy Roisz

Supported by the Federal Chancellery of Austria (BKA) and Wien Kultur.

Austria 2016

"In her found-footage film distortion, the Austrian artist Lydia Nsiah has edited together excerpts from DVD copies of canonical avant-garde and ephemeral films that have been distorted by the media's own copy protection. The very instrument that should protect the films' contents from unlawful duplication is the artist's starting point for her commentary on the commercialization of alienation techniques. It becomes a player in its own right on the visual level and a tool of artistic appropriation. A veritable 'pixel storm' (Joachim Schätz) in the form of distortion and controlled disintegration blows over the source material by Fernand Léger, Len Lye, Marcel Duchamp, and others as an autonomous level of meaning. The source material's original analog quality shines through in parts. Billy Roisz's soundtrack picks up on the two levels of source material and distorted copy, heralding the emergence of the glitch." (From the catalog of the exhibition Analog_Digital. Media Exchanges, curated by Eva Fischer and Anna Högner, METRO Kinokulturhaus, October 3, 2017 – January, 28 2018, Vienna, Austria.)

Lydia Nsiah, born 1985 in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna.

Link

http://www.lydiansiah.net