Das Dichte und das Gehöhlte

English title: The Dense and the Caved

Director: Franz Wanner    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Franz Wanner, born in 1975, finished his training as a photographer and filmmaker before studying fine arts and media theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich). Texts, photo series, films, and objects have been published under the pseudonym Franz Wanner since 1996. In his book The Presumption (2011) they appear as the plot of a nonlinear screenplay. In 2012 he received the City of Munich’s Scholarship for Fine Arts. Since then he has been working on the narrative cycle Toxin – Antitoxin. Clinical Pictures of a Town, which was shown for the first time in 2013 at the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. Since 2009, Franz Wanner has lectured at several universities and teaching institutions in the fields of fine art and film.

Country: Germany

Year: 2008

Synopsis: Remote Elements of Symbioses Between Institutions or How to Thicken the Excavated

Using the example of Munich´s Academy of Fine Arts, which in 2008 celebrated the 200th anniversary of its foundation, and the BR Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasting company, remote elements of symbioses between cultural institutions in relation to the media representation of the lowest common concept of art are illustrated. By assembling machinima elements, voice-overs, and found footage from feature films as well as reporting from BR on the Academy of Fine Arts, there unfolds an up-to-date story on art from cave painting to the Middle Ages.

Language: German, English