Transvermation is a video installation, a digitalized Super 8 video accompanied by a voice-over in French and German. The video shows a physical transformation through clay. Transforming oneself, making oneself monstrous to escape the multiple systems of domination. The text was inspired by feminist research and in particular by Paul B. Preciado’s speech at the Academy of Psychoanalysts “I am a monster”, it evokes the question of the body, limited in its binary definition, and the necessary transformation of the same to achieve a paradigm shift. Our body, this place of all abuses, exposed to the mechanisms of domination, must become the battlefield to allow an intersectional discourse. The text breaks the grammatical codes, questions the language as a center of power.
Digitalized Super 8 video and text.
Transformation as a process of emancipation.
with Claire Terrien (Performance) and Annika Labrenz (Text research)
Camerawork, editing, text research and artistic direction: Blandine Casen
Exhibition “Dystopische idylle”
Exhibition “Dystopische idylle” in Atelierhaus Mengerzeile und Kunstraum m3 (Mengerzeile 1-3, Berlin) from 21.05 – 19.06.21