Hautfront, 2020
4K video, color, sound
16:11 min.
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
In collaboration with Karola Sakotnik, Daniela Adler, Barbara Siegl, Sonja Skalnik, Ilse Wieser, Katharina Rungaldier, Barbara Kasper, Zuzanna Szula, Helga Kirchengast and Sadia Hammonti
Through the pandemic, isolation became a shared experience that led to a new understanding of the body in its collective solitude.
The video was created during the first lockdown in spring … Read More
Through the pandemic, isolation became a shared experience that led to a new understanding of the body in its collective solitude.
The video was created during the first lockdown in spring 2020 in a collaborative process with women of different ages from Feldbach in Styria, Austria.
For this purpose, a discussion group was created, which met online to take a joint stand in a situation of general retreat into the private sphere. Subversiveness and resistance became central concepts, which focused on the effects of the pandemic and the resulting crisis for women.
A text collage was created for the video, which is based on the conversations that took place during the online meetings. In addition, the women performatively interpreted experiences of physical distance and psychological closeness.
Against a black background, different parts of the body enter into a dialogue and show that they are capable of physical empathy and solidarity in spite of contact ban.
