Resonanzen

For the VIDEONALE.20, Anne Diestelkamp (Program Curator V.20) and Annette Ziegert (Artistic Director Program V.20) developed the format of RESONANZEN, which brings video art into a dialogue with literature, music and various fields of research. For each event, texts, sound pieces and discussion partners were curated in resonance with the themes of selected video artworks.

In groups of twenty people, we watched video works together that dealt with topics such as parenthood/symbiosis, alienation, loneliness or fear. These screenings were juxtaposed with joint readings from Annie Ernaux's text A Frozen Woman or Heike Geißler's novel Seasonal Associate, a listening session on the Soviet song Nezhnost (Tenderness) or a conversation with a psychoanalyst.


RESONANZ
WHENEVER I SAW HER, I KNEW I WAS DREAMING
With Stéphanie Lagarde, presented by Anna Holms
Reading session and talk

Beatrice Gibson and Stéphanie Lagarde explore the themes of parenthood and self-abandonment in their video works DREAMING ALCESTIS and EXTRA LIFE (AND DECAY). In a participatory reading, we looked together at excerpts from Annie Ernaux's novel A Frozen Woman, in which the author talks about her own devotion to family duties. Afterwards, we approached the works of Lagarde and Gibson through screenings and discussions.


RESONANZ
DESERT AND VALLEY PRIDE
With Lukas Marxt and Ana María Millán, presented by Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrez
Talk

In DESERT and VALLEY PRIDE, Ana María Millán and Lukas Marxt examine the social and ecological effects of resource extraction. Both deal with colonial structures of extraction: Millán focuses on the Colombian desert, Marxt on California. Based on their works, we spoke with the artists about artistic forms of addressing colonization and the exploitation of people and landscapes.


RESONANZ
UNTER DEN FÜßEN KEIN SAND
With Anna Zett and Agathe Israel, presented by Annette Ziegert
Talk

In her work ES GIBT KEINE ANGST [Afraid doesn't exist], Anna Zett provides insights into the period of upheaval in Germany between 1986 and 1990: the political and social change from the German Democratic Republic to reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany. By interweaving GDR opposition material with poetry and music, the artist addresses the fears and uncertainties of the period of change. In conversation with psychoanalyst Agathe Israel, we talked about the psychological dimension of these years and how fear and repression shaped the collective and individual experience of the fall of communism.


RESONANZ
AND THE STARS GIVE YOU THEIR TENDERNESS
With Chto Delat, presented by Rosa Heidemann
Listening session and talk

In the video performance NEZHNOST / TENDERNESS by the collective Chto Delat, four people swing in front of their screens to the rhythm of the Soviet song Nezhnost, which describes the loneliness of the first cosmonaut in space. Created at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the work responds to the threat of social collapse and invites us to imagine how we would behave if the collapse had already occurred. Together with the collective, we approached the work using Nezhnost's melody and lyrics.


RESONANZ
DELIVER, DELIVER, DELIVER
With Ida Kammerloch and Stefan Panhans/Andrea Winkler, presented by Anne Diestelkamp
Reading session and talk

In ANIMA OVERDRIVE by Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, a person raps about the exhaustive cycle of deliveries, from physical goods to abstract concepts. In MEMBRANE OF THE NEW, Ida Kammerloch tells the story of the shuttle trade between Russia and China based on the story of her grandfather. In a participatory reading, we brought the two works into resonance with text excerpts from Heike Geißler's novel Seasonal Associate, in which the author writes about her work for Amazon and the associated exhaustion and alienation.