Exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Vienna, Oct. 1, 2022:

"Sasha Pirker works at the interface between film and art. For the Long Night of Museums she designs a multiform showroom in which cinematographic viewing arrangements, cinema references and an architectural sculpture are set in relation to one another. In addition to individual objects or an entirely new installation double projection in which two filmmakers circle the apartment of artist Heinz Frank, who died in 2020, with their cameras, Pirker"s film Real Time (2021) will also be on view, providing a key to her often conceptual, equally humorous approach. Pirker films a self-portrait in real time (!), though this only becomes clear successively, and uses her Bolex H16 camera, which must be wound up every 30 seconds. These labor-intensive pauses between frames of the film puzzle are filled with black sequences - the sound seems synchronous only at these points - which stretch the usual duration of a 16mm reel from three to five minutes (the actual duration of the film). Two guided tours by Sasha Pirker and Dietmar Schwärzler at 7 and 8 p.m. each will provide clarity. Be curious, only in Catholicism this virtue has a negative connotation." (Dietmar Schwärzler) A cooperation between Künstlerhaus Wien and sixpackfilm.