Wir sind Schmutz
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Ready to dive in
October 14, 2023
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Today, it is only three weeks until I start my artistic residency in Berlin. I am so excited to begin working with the archive at the Magnus Hirschfeld Society and see what will emerge from my artistic exploration! Right now, I am imagining that I may uncover stories and individuals…
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The 175ers
October 4, 2023
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This week I started watching the latest season of «Babylon Berlin». Very well made, as always, – beautiful and exciting. But for me it is also interesting as it gives an impression of the late Weimar-era. A time when Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexual Science existed. In one of the first…
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Reinterpretation
October 2, 2023
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In the “Wir Sind Schmutz” project, I will work with the archive of the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft in Berlin. In my art, I have always been working with the reinterpretation of historical material. One of the earliest is from 2001. Here I was working with the famous Muybridge photographs of…
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A queer voice from the past
September 30, 2023
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Yesterday I saw an interesting post on Instagram by the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft about the German writer Bruno Vogel, born in Leipzig 125 years ago yesterday. He worked at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin together with Magnus Hirschfeld etc in the 1920s. Very interesting for me, was the…
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Symbols of freedom
September 28, 2023
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I am very interested in the process where a human finds her or his personal freedom. Lately I have been thinking that the process our society and culture went through from the Victorian and Edwardian periods into the after-war upheaval can be seen almost as a symbol of this. Or…