British artist and filmmaker Emily Wardill's “Night for Day” (2020) is a video installation anchored by two sets of interviews. The first features Isabel do Carmo, an endocrinologist who co-founded the anti-fascist Revolutionary Brigades in Portugal; and second is with two young men who are in the midst of establishing a machine-learning startup company for recognizing moving images in 2019. Centering both subjectivity and the body, the film seeks to answer a hypothetical question: What if Carmo was the fictional mother of these two entrepreneurs, such that the utopia, which fueled her communist struggle in the 1970s, metastasized into their latter-day techno-utopianism? “Night for Day” was a commission for a solo show at Secession, Vienna, and won Wardill the European Media Art Festival Award in 2020. She has had solo exhibitions several institutions in various countries. Wardill is Professor for Art and Film in the Institute of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
On this evening, there will be a screening of “Night for Day” (45 min.) followed by a Q&A with the artist (in English). It is part of the program accompanying the exhibition “Labouring Bodies,” and is shown in conjunction with the symposium “Energetic Transfers,” which is held October 22-24 and organized by Dr. Alena J. Williams, Professor for Theory and Mediation of Contemporary Art, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and 2026 NOMIS Fellow / eikones—Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes.
Admission is free; no booking required.

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Museum Tinguely
Paul Sacher-Anlage 2
4002 Basel

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