Skin Front (2020)
Screening
Feldbach
1.10., 20:00
Sparkassenpark hinter dem Heimat.Museum im Tabor
Pfarrgasse, 8330 Feldbach
Public space ♿
Free admission
Limited attendance. Please register via e-mail to tickets [at] steirischerherbst.at.
3.10., 20:00
OEVERwerk
Rösselmühle
Elisabethinergasse 45 / Oeverseegasse 1, 8020 Graz
Free admission
On Paranoia TV starting 3.10.
Credits
In collaboration with Karola Sakotnik, Daniela Adler, Barbara Siegl, Sonja Skalnik, Ilse Wieser, Katharina Rungaldier, Barbara Kasper, Zuzanna Szula, Maria Raidl, Helga Kirchengast, Gabriele Grandl, Andrea Meyer und Sadia Hammonti
Project coordinator Feldbach: Karola Sakotnik
Camera: Caroline Bobek
Sound: Baptiste El Baz
Lights: Jürgen Mayer
Postproduction: Arthur Summereder, Alfred Lenz
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Screening partner Graz: Institut für Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Steiermark / OEVERwerk
The pandemic has turned isolation into a shared experience and this has led to a new awareness of the body in its capacity for collective isolation. The new video by Anna Witt explores this experience of physical distance and psychological proximity. It was created during the lockdown, in workshops with an intergenerational group of women from Feldbach and Graz. They convened once every two weeks in virtual meetings to exchange their knowledge on different organs and appendages. The film is a collage of moving, living bodies, capable of an almost “somatic” solidarity despite the ban on physical contact. The video is projected onto the back wall of the Feldbach Tabor, which today houses a local history museum and formerly served as a prison for witches.
Bio
Anna Witt (1981, Wasserburg, Germany) is an artist who works with performative interventions and video installations. Her practice deals with the construction of cultural stereotypes and individuals’ positioning within social systems. Her works ambivalently sit between fictional reenactment and documentary staging and represent the problematic of subject formation in relation to identity politics, collectivity, and citizenship rights. She lives in Vienna.
Credits
In collaboration with Karola Sakotnik, Daniela Adler, Barbara Siegl, Sonja Skalnik, Ilse Wieser, Katharina Rungaldier, Barbara Kasper, Zuzanna Szula, Maria Raidl, Helga Kirchengast, Gabriele Grandl, Andrea Meyer und Sadia Hammonti
Project coordinator Feldbach: Karola Sakotnik
Camera: Caroline Bobek
Sound: Baptiste El Baz
Lights: Jürgen Mayer
Postproduction: Arthur Summereder, Alfred Lenz
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
Screening partner Graz: Institut für Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Steiermark / OEVERwerk