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Erik B\u00fcnger<\/strong> is an artist, writer and composer whose work presents a continuous investigation into the human voice and its paradoxical relationship to human language. His videos, lecture performances and musical compositions have been presented at venues such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Wellcome Collection in London, The Curitiba Biennial in Brazil and the Art Encounters Biennial in Timisoara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steven Cuzner<\/strong> lives and works in Stockholm with social teaching projects, radio and text art, translations and independent research. Over the past two decades, he has been organising with local and transnational political collectives against exploitation and expropriationx<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sophie Reyer<\/strong> was born in Vienna in 1984 and is an Austrian author who writes novels, poetry and plays. She has published several works, including books with S. Fischer Verlag. Her historical crime novel \u201eTod bei den Salzburger Festspielen\u201c became a bestseller and appeared on Austrian bestseller lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marina D. Richter\u00a0<\/strong>was born in Belgrade and lives in Vienna. She has been writing about film for thirty years, with reviews and interviews published in Politika, Vreme, Sirp, European Animation Journal and other international publications. She is a regular contributor to Asian Movie Pulse, founder and editor-in-chief of Ubiquarian, and a member of the European Film Academy and the Austrian Film Critics Association. An experienced festival consultant and programmer, she regularly introduces films and moderates Q&As at international festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Manuel Saiz<\/strong> is an artist and writer who has worked across a wide range of media. He has exhibited in private galleries and institutions around the world, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid, the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. He has also published several books on art theory and general essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19 Oct 2026, 6 PM, Rustenschacherallee 2\u20134, Vienna What is the relationship between voice-over and image? Does a voice-over give voice to the image? Does it help the image communicate something that images cannot communicate on their own? Common sense tells us that this is how voice-over functions. This artistic research project explores a line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,12],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-event","tag-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The event will feature screenings of two videos produced within the project: Even the Prompter Dies<\/em> by Erik B\u00fcnger and Manuel Saiz and Paradis<\/em> by Sophie Reyer. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the artists and two invited guests: film critic Marina Richter and artist and activist Steven Cuzner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/prompter_still3-1024x540.jpg\")
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This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/23ef8e05-970e-4262-9ab9-c32fe73dfb9a-0-1024x154.png\")
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