7. Werkleitz Biennale Happy Believers
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german version
Wednesday 06.09.2006

7 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
ERÖFFNUNG
Grußworte von Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, Kultusminister des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt;
Peter Zorn, Biennale Co-Director
und vom Kuratorium der Biennale.

ERÖFFNUNGS-FILMPROGRAMM
Powers of Ten
Charles and Ray Eames
US 1977, 9 min, English


pilgrImage
Adrian Paci
AL 2005, 14 min, English
Courtesy Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zürich


Magical World
Johanna Billing
SE 2005, 6:12 min, loop
Courtesy of Johanna Billing and Hollybush Gardens, London


8:30 p.m.
Opening of the Exhibition

10 p.m. Happy Believers Club
eternal sunshine
audio visual performance
by d.m. hirsch and Familie Blender; Halle, Berlin, Wien


11 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
Heaven On Earth
Rick Minnich
DE 2001, 52 min, English with German subtitles


pilgrImage

Adrian Paci: pilgrImage
pilgrImage revolves around a small fresco of a Madonna with Child, presumably painted around the 14th century. Legend has it that the icon disappeared from its church in Shkoder in 1467, when the town was invaded by the Turks, and reappeared shortly afterward in a church in Genazzano, Italy, a town near Rome. Paci takes his cue from the legendfs stance that the icon was taken to safety by angels to free it from the impending Islamic domination. The fourteen-minute video is divided into three moments. The first is a slow unveiling of the fresco, with a zooming in to the interior of the sanctuary in Italy where the fresco rests on its altar, moving past a number of visual barriers. The second is the projection on a screen next to the frescofs first sanctuary in Shkoder of the taped documentation of the fresco in Italy, watched by a large crowd that has gathered in response to Pacifs fliers for the event. And the final moment is a solitary projection shown on a screen placed directly in front of the fresco icon back in Genazzano; the long tracking shot shows the Albanian people starring intently at the image.
Paola Morsiani

The social reality of Albania plays an important role in the work of Albanian artist Adrian Paci, who works in several media ? painting, drawing, photography, video and installation. Pacifs work deals with the ongoing manifold transitions happening since the fall of communism in 1991. He also deals with his own experiences as an immigrant now living in Italy.
Courtesy Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich
http://web.tiscali.it/adrianpaci
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