2020 film (dcp 30 min) written and directed by dominik bais vincent hannwacker, marie jaksch, mara pollak julian rabus
MUSARION adapts the eponymous work by german writer christoph martin wieland and transfers the love story into the present day. phanias withdrew from the city of athens to the countryside to leave his old life behind. but one day he encounters his former girlfriend musarion who tries to bring him back to reason. the art film follows their struggle to find an enlightened form of love that can overcome philosophical and political fanaticism. musarion was directed by a collective of five young artists and mixes elements of the original text, opera, theatre, video art and narrative film.
Datum: Sa | 17.07.2021 So | 25.07.2021 Öffnungszeiten: täglich | 10:00 – 20:00 Uhr, letzter Einlass 18:00 Uhr; wenn die maximale Besucherzahl erreicht ist, kann es zu Wartezeiten kommen
Ort: Akademie der Bildenden Künste | Altbau | Akademiestr. 2
Vestibül, first floor
Die Arbeit Hit me baby one more time von Marie Jaksch untersucht das Gesicht als privilegierten Ort der Ausdrucksfähigkeit des Menschen und zeitgleich als Symbol seiner Krisenhaftigkeit.Drei Gesichts- Soundskulpturen aus ephemeren Material, in welche je Lautsprecher eingegossen ist, stehen auf Stativen im Raum. Der basslastige Sound bringt die Gesichter zum Wabbern bis hin zur völligen Dekonstruktion des Gesichtes. Die Installation bewegt sich dabei im paradoxen Spannungsfeld von Berührendem und Berührten, in dem sie den Fetischcharakter von Berührungen mitreflektiert und den Fokus auf das Prozesshafte legt: Wann bleiben Berührungen flüchtig und „unsichtbar“ wann hinterlassen sie (sichtbare) Spuren, bilden Narben?
Recyclable coffee cups, recyclable takeaway packaging, napkins made from recycled paper – in urban cafés and bistros, the green revolution seems to have won long ago.
We ride our bikes, shop with baskets or jute bags at packaging-free supermarkets, and have helped provision boxes and glass drinking bottles achieve a renaissance. We seem to have disposed of waste from our lives – as far as a modern and urban lifestyle allows.
But the fact that we, as conscious and sustainably thinking consumers, see less waste thanks to such concepts does not mean that we no longer produce any.The 3-channel video installation „Head and Shoulders“ asks what effects it would have if „invisible“ pollution were also visible to consumers – handily packaged, ready to go:
An oversized transparent „soy fish“ with a cap stands on a turntable in the center of the room and carries a projector inside it. (Dimensions 140 cm x 90 cm) From the cap on the „mouth“ of the fish, a video work is projected onto the opposite walls: Braided artificial hair in the water, swirling, leaving traces of color, penetrating and being swallowed at the transition between thought and matter, man and nature.
The work „head and Shoulders“ thereby also reflects the milieu- and gender-specific aspects of waste generation and recycling: How does my gender role affect my consumer behavior and my handling of waste? Why are topics such as sustainability and conscious consumption mostly connoted and staged as female in the media and advertising? How can this arbitrary linkage be explained and broken? But also: Which privileges make it possible to deal with and implement conscious consumerism at all?
The „soy fish“ as a symbol of take-away food is thus decontextualized and reinterpreted, whereby the work appropriates the paradoxical simultaneity of nature (fish), pollution (plastic) and costume (soy sauce) in form, material and content, and condenses it into a reassuring unity in the stream of environmental pollution and salvation in which we all find ourselves.
photo@mara pollak
video@Jakob Geßner
artist: Marie Jaksch // funded by Bezirksausschuss Neuhausen-Nymphenburg / Sponsoring: Deutsche Eiche München, DLRG Pöcking-Starnberg e.V.
