Anna Vasof | Vienna Hit
Video
Desperate people who do not know what to do next, they hit their heads against walls. But if we observe this movement as an instrument, a hopeless action begins to transform into an absurd repetition. In precisely those absurd moments in which our morals are paralyzed, we can observe and interpret the world from a different perspective. In the composition, my head is played as instrument in multiple contradictory locations and creates an audiovisual urban “landscape” of Vienna.
Anna Vasof is an architect and media artist. Born in 1985, she studied architecture at the University of Thessaly (2010) in Greece and Transmedia Art (2014) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2004 her videos and short movies have been presented in several festivals, some of them winning distinctions. At 2020 she finished her Ph.D. thesis about a cinematographic technique that she developed with the title Non Stop Stop Motion. She is now working on designing and building innovative mechanisms for producing critical and narrative videos, actions and installations.
Artist Statement
"My work is accessible in a universal way via its wit and mischief. It is grounded in genuine experimentation of the core mechanisms of motion and time based art. I go to the heart of every question and start from zero, reinventing core premises with my own perspective. My works with everyday objects (shoes, brooms, pots etc.) deal with social paradoxes and let us see a familiar world from a different perspective."
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