Helmut & Johanna Kandl
You only live twice

Infos

Duration
10.11.2012 – 25.11.2012

Opening and presentation of their new book Storist, which invokes personal stories and pictures to reflect on history, with a focus on formerly socialist countries.
Fotohof edition, Salzburg, 2012.
9.11.2012, 7pm

An evening of story telling
16.11.2012, 7pm

The stories about and behind the stories

Film screening
23.11.2012, 7pm

Walter Seidl presents videos by Helmut & Johanna Kandl and speaks with the artists

Helmut & Johanna Kandl
You only live twice

Within the frame of:
Art Is Concrete. And So Is Truth?

Co-produced by steirischer herbst 2012

Helmut & Johanna Kandl, 2. Juli / July 1989, Siebenhirten bei / near Mistelbach
Festakt des österreichischen Kameradschaftsbundes (ÖKB) anlässlich der Segnung des renovierten Kriegerdenkmals mit Heldenehrung / Ceremony for the Austrian Comradeship Orgnaisation (ÖKB) on the occasion of the consecration of the renovated war memorial with a tribute to fallen war heroes.

Intro

From the nucleus of Europe awakening from the Cold War we developed a cluster of different stories, anecdotes, and images, which we used to associate aspects that are geographically and temporally distant. Personal experience becomes a microcosm of (Austrian) post-war history.
Repeatedly emerging through the narrative are islands of memory: Helmut’s childhood in the most Eastern corner of the “free world” of the time is linked via the figure of his father with the history of Yugoslavia; the field across from the Kandl family’s paint store in Vienna provided Johanna with a projection surface for fantasy in the 1960s: What is beyond the field, Russia or Leopoldau?
Events (experiences) in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia in the first decade of the twenty-first century are intertwined with Johanna’s scholarship in Yugoslavia after the death of Tito (1980–81) and with Helmut’s employment at the VÖEST factories in Linz (1974–78) where mining machines were sold off to the town of Zenica in Bosnia. And the online game “Moschee baba” from the year 2010, which was launched on the website of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ Steiermark) during the 2010 state elections in Styria, is interrelated with the demolished mosques of Banja Luka.
And so the narrative meanders back and forth, entangling various techniques: photography, video, drawing, text … all foster a dense fabric of associations, interlinked like conversations at the local pub, where we say “… by the way, I was just thinking …”—just as visitors to the exhibition or the conversational and film evenings will hopefully also respond.

Installation Views

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl, Baku, 1995.

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl, 2. Juli / July 1989, Siebenhirten bei / near Mistelbach
    Festakt des österreichischen Kameradschaftsbundes (ÖKB) anlässlich der Segnung des renovierten Kriegerdenkmals mit Heldenehrung / Ceremony for the Austrian Comradeship Orgnaisation (ÖKB) on the occasion of the consecration of the renovated war memorial with a tribute to fallen war heroes.

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl, 2. Juli / July 1989, Siebenhirten bei / near Mistelbach
    Festakt des österreichischen Kameradschaftsbundes (ÖKB) anlässlich der Segnung des renovierten Kriegerdenkmals mit Heldenehrung / Ceremony for the Austrian Comradeship Orgnaisation (ÖKB) on the occasion of the consecration of the renovated war memorial with a tribute to fallen war heroes.

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl
    You only live twice
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Christine Winkler

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Opening & Book presentation

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

  • Eröffnung und Buchpräsentation / Opening and book presentation, 9.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Alessio Eberl

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An evening of story telling

  • Helmut & Johanna Kandl: You only live twice
    2012
    An evening of story telling
    2012
    Photo: Camera Austria

  • Erzählabend / An evening of story telling, 16.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Camera Austria

  • Erzählabend / An evening of story telling, 16.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Camera Austria

  • Erzählabend / An evening of story telling, 16.11.2012
    Camera Austria 2012
    Photo: Camera Austria

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