FICTIONAUTIC INTERVENTIONS in public spaces, exhibitions and theatres
Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie aka Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer, Nao Coclea (SP), 2007.
PAUL SERNINE & MISS COOCHIE emerge as figures straddling the liminal line between fiction and reality. They are agents of the poetic and the uncanny with a deliberately unstable existence. They are informed by an ongoing adventure that relates to pulp fiction, spy cinema, and avant-garde theatre, inserting acts of imagination into the everyday world. Their activities—Dreams, Walks, Visits, Performances, and the Swinging Spy Path—connect to a praxis rooted in dérive and psychogeography, laced with glamour. The references to Godard, Anna Karina, Eddie Constantine, Modesty Blaise, Monica Vitti, Joseph Losey and many others, leads them to a deep alignment with cinematic archetypes of cool, seductive resistance in esthetic rebellion. Their „first appearance“ was in summer 2005. Like conceptual ghosts, they trade in “individual and pulp fictions,” suggesting that personal narratives and (pop) myths are both equally valid currencies of meaning. The invocation of Jean Genet’s notion—“To dream oneself, to make this dream tangible in order to become a dream in other people“—situates them within a queer, poetic politics of performance to open consensus reality.
Warren Ellis & John Cassaday „Planetary“, Wildstorm, 2017.
Miss Coochie, woman of uncouth men, remembers how terrified she was, when she looked back to the abandoned shore, where she was stolen from by the white bull.
Where her clothes fluttered in the breeze behind her.
Now she is awake and opens wide her wild rose court, for you, whom she loves.
The stars, whose ranks are herded by Lucifer, vanish for a daily day.
Watch out! Cross borders with no illusions.
Welcome guests and accept spirits, as to fit a candle to its flame.
Not so far from dessert comes a memory, a shining amour, a moon covered in black, a note for the future. Wilderness pricks out from miraculous springs.
There could be a gun in her warm hand.
Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer: Possession & Poetry, Marrocco 2006. Photo: Jack Hauser
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Performance: Paul Sernine, Miss Coochie & Anton the living music box
at We don ́t talk to strangers, DISTRICT4art 2024
Jack Hauser „Oye5“, aus Studio VanDorenHorn. Photo: Jack Hauser
„Franz Graf turned 70 on 22.07.2024 and on this occasion I am giving him an exhibition instead of a museum, which I am putting together for district 4 art at the multicultural Schlingermarkt in Vienna Floridsdorf, as my 35 years of exhibition activity was also triggered by an invitation to an unrestrained art installation in Franz Graf’s studio at Davidgasse 79/3/2 in 1100 Vienna in 1991. I selected artists known and unknown to him to reverse the motto of a fabric bag produced by Parallel Vienna with the text: we don’t talk to strangers, which I wear almost every day. Perhaps we will all talk to strangers and foreigners on the occasion of this exhibition and enjoy the new things that are being created with and around Franz Graf on the occasion of his 70th birthday. (Elke Silvia Krystufek, 2024)“
Have a look: Secret Service*Anton The Living Music Box
Initiated and invited by Jack Hauser in the frame of the vernissage we don ́t talk to strangers, DISTRICT4art 2024.
Anton the living music box: Anton Tichawa
White Paul Sernine: Jack Hauser
Dream: Miss Coochie aka Sabina Holzer
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Visit: Haus Pelmus, Bukarest
Miss Coochie träumt & Swinging Spy Path: Haus Pelmus, Bukarest 2023
Have a look: Miss Coochie träumt wiederholt (Haus Pelmus)
Dream: Miss Choochie aka Sabina Holzer
Video: Jack Hauser
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Performance: falling from horizon into blue or what needs to be done
Initiated and invited by Agnes Schneidewind
Agnes Schneidewind: falling from the horizon into blue or what needs to be done, Galerie Zwischendecke,
Wien, 2022. Photo: Jack Hauser.
Have a look: falling from horizon into blue or what needs to be done
Video: Jack Hauser
Drawings & poems: Agnes Schneidewind
Sound: Daniel Lercher
Dream: Miss Coochie aka Sabina Holzer
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Performance: pass.age
David Ender, Jack Hauser: pass.age, zentrale, Wien, 2019.
pass.age I: zentrale, 2019
Blue Paul Sernine aka Jack Hauser: Sound
White Paul Sernine aka David Ender: Sound
Miss Coochie träumt aka Sabina Holzer
pass.age is a performative piece of music that David Ender and Jack Hauser performed once in the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus as part of a modern music festival in 1991. They have now produced a double long-playing record from the recording as a prototype.
Miss Coochie träumt is a performative practice by Sabina Holzer. Since 2009, she has repeatedly performed this dreaming a body writing in Miss Coochie’s clothes.
Score for Miss Coochie träumt:
Ich erinnere. Er innern. Im Inneren. Hat sich etwas gebildet. Ausgebildet. Eingebildet. Eingeprägt. Verfangen. Eingefangen. Mich —
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David Ender, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer: pass.age. Konzerthaus, Wien, 2020
pass.age II: Wien Modern, Konzerthaus 2020
Blue Paul Sernine aka Jack Hauser
White Paul Sernine aka David Ender
Miss Coochie träumt aka Sabina Holzer
Score for Miss Coochie träumt:
(Absondern und sich dem Atem zu wenden. Dem Hören.)
Es ist da diese, nicht jene. Diese. Diese Wirbelsäule. Einer Kindheit.
Wirbelnd. Schwingend. Drehend. Ein wenig.
Diese. Dieser.
Dieser Tanz.
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pass.age III: WUK in the frame of Routinen der Arbeitswelt, Form und Deformierung, Widerstand und Würde, by Bruni Sand. 2020
Score for Miss Coochie träumt:
Vermessen und Verbinden. Anbindungen.
Loslösungen ohne den Kontakt zu verlieren. Den Takt des Herzens. Das Pulsieren des Blutes. Das Seufzen und Jubilieren der Muskeln. Nur Mut, Körper. read more
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Performance: Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie in a landscape of a song ––
Mrs Mojo Rising
Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie in a landscape of a song. Photo: Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer, 2016
Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie in a landscape of a song:
Due to the friendship of Jim Morrison and Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy On Stage, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, AIL, 2016
Performance: Jack Hauser: Sound; Sabina Holzer: Text
Text: Mrs Mojo Risin‘
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Dream: Miss Coochie träumt at Glorious Weirdness of Art & Cosmic: Live / 4
Initiated and invited by Jack Hauser
Jack Hauser: Glorious Weirdness of Art & Cosmic: Live / 4 Im_flieger, 2016.
Have a look: Miss Coochie träumt: Miss Coochie traeumt Miss Coochie.
Video: Jack Hauser
Dream: Miss Coochie
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Visit: WHEN ATTITUDE BECOMES FORM, Fondazione Prada, Venice 2013
Visiting friends and compainions. …
… „When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013“ brings together the original works presented at the Kunsthalle and Schulwarte, loaned for the event by important private collections and international museums (for example the works of Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Eva Hesse, Giovanni Anselmo, Hanne Darboven, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Marinus Boezem and Richard Tuttle); site-specific interventions „reenacted“ directly or in association with the artists and their Estates (for instance the works of Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Alain Jacquet, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Keith Sonnier, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner and Gilberto Zorio); plus a selection of photographs, videos, books, letters, ephemeral objects and other original materials relating to the 1969 show and its context. The exhibition also includes unpublished materials from the Szeemann archive.
The purpose is to revisit, with the same intensity and energy, the Post-pop and Post-minimalist art research of the time, ranging from Process art to Conceptual art, Arte Povera and Land art, that was developed internationally during the mid-1960s, but also to highlight the contribution made by Harald Szeemann, a curator capable of thinking beyond the limitations set by critics‘ labels and the theoretic associations of his time. In particular, the focus has been on the fluid and mutable development of art, with the purpose of exploring the physical and conceptual horizons of material and immaterial visual languages, set in a multiform and continuously changing territory that transcends the immutable nature of the art object. Characterized by a new approach where everything was left to the liberating process of doing, where the viewer was not impeded by boundaries, protection systems, pedestals or perimeters, the exhibition became a dialectical field of encounter between the individual artists and the curator, between the event and the architecture: a place where the works formed links with each other, in a kind of continuously-evolving organic weave. … (www.oma.com)
WHEN ATTITUDE BECOMES FORM – Fondazione Prada, Venice 2013. Photo: Jack Hauser
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Concert-Performance: Paul Sernine & Miss Choochie in a landscape of a song: ONE PIECE
A dedication to YOKO ONO
Photos: Im_flieger
A Chrismas Special, ImPulsTanz, Porgy&Bess, 2017
Show your darlings, nada_lokal 2017
Guest in „A Movement“ by Brigitte Wilfing @ Schokofliegerei, 2016
Changing Spaces, Schokofliegerei, 2015
Der blöde dritte Mittwoch, Rhiz 2014
Im_Flieger Eröffnung, 2014
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Visit: Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie at the German Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia, 2011
Visiting friends and compainions. …
… The dangers of making an exhibition about him instead of with him were great: as with Beuys, to whom Schlingensief often referred, there is a tendency to present things that were used as props in connection with performances as precious sculptures and to upgrade them to museum objects, which they were never intended to be. Susanne Gaensheimer and Schlingensief’s widow Aino Laberenz escaped this danger: their pavilion is staged as a total work of art, the central space of which re-stages the stage of the Oberhausen production “The Church of Fear of the Stranger in Me”. (www.schlingensief.com)
Photos: Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer
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Swinging Spy-Pad: Apparmtment Miryam van Imschoot, Brüssel, 2012.
Photos: Jack Hauser
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Swinging Spy-Pad: 5th Avenue, New York, 2008.
With M1+1, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Sabine Maier, Michael Mastrotodaro
Have a look: Variation I: 5th Avenue, new (w)york as part of M1+1, 2008
Have a look: Variation II: 5th Avenue, new (y)work as part of M1+1, 2008
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WALK: Nao Coclea, Spain, 2009
Photos: Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer
Have a look …Alle Stäbe waren Zauberstäbe…
Video: Jack Hauser
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Visit: Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie at Jean Genet’s grave. Larache, Morocco, 2006.
Photo: Jack Hauser
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RELATED PERFORMANCES AND INTERVENTIONS
* PAUL SERNINE & MISS COOCHIE BESUCHEN ALS SABINA HOLZER DEN HAFEN
VON PORT BOU UND VERZEICHNEN DAS BÖHMISCHE MEER DER MILA ŠTERN
INS NICHTS. (Extended photowork) Concept: Jack Hauser; Performance: Sabina
Holzer | | Radowanhalle Wien ’08
* RECEPTUR (Intervention) Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer | Tanzquartier Wien ’06
* ORACLE NIGHT (Performance) Karlheinz Essl, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer | Essl Museum Klosterneuburg ’06 | Festspielhaus St.Pölten ’06
* CAMERA OBSCURA (Performance) Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer, invited by
Arthur Summereder and Daniela Zeilinger | Festival der Regionen ’17
* GO MATA GO (Performance) Concept: Jack Hauser; with Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer,
Karlheinz Essl | Essl Museum Klosterneuburg ’15
* SCHWELLENLAND (Performance) Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer | Werner Berg Museum ’13
* MISS COOCHIE READS „WHAT IS A COLLECTIVE“ by Marcus Steinweg, Wohnung Miryam van Doren (Intervention) Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer ’13
* SCHLAFEN IN WIEN (48 Std permanet performance), Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer,
Sabine Maier, Michael Mastrototaro, Caroline Röckeling | Hotel Fürstenhof Wien ’09, a film by Carolin Röckelin und Karin Dürr
* LIVE (Film & Performance) Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Sabine Maier,
Michael Mastrototaro, Martin Siewert | Tanzquartier Wien ’07 | Lentos Museum für
Moderne Kunst ’07
* Possession & Poetry, Jack Hauser and Sabina Holzer, aka Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie travel through Spain, Marrocco, France ’06