West und Ost : A film-translation

In 1923 Sidney Goldin filmed in Vienna the todays classical Yiddishfilm 'Est and West' starring Molly Picon, the American-Yiddish star ofthe Yiddish Cinema.

85 years after it, the Sala-manca Group, a collective ofIsralei-Argentinean artists, come back to Vienna in order to make afilm-translation of 'East and West'. A free translation of the film tobe projected as a video-film-installation together with the originalone.

The Sala-Mance-Group is a group of Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fieldsand media. The group also curate art events and edit an independent artjournal. Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation withtextual, urban and net contexts, as well as social and political issues.

27.04 19.00 p.m. Opening

29.04 18.30 p.m. lecture vor ORT (Freiraum MQ)
with the Sala-Manca Group

08.05 18.00 p.m. Finissage

after the Finissage the Galerie habres+partner
presents a Performance of Nelly Agassi