2022 – 2023
Digital Domestication
Humans have fought their way to the top of the food chain. They can decide by force which animals may live and which must die. The two-part work «Digital Domestication» takes this thesis as a basis to examine the relationship between humans and animals. The installation consists of a theoretical video essay and a walk-in forest room.
The essay refers to part of Michel Foucault’s theory, which describes how society shapes people for its own purposes in a disciplinary apparatus. By overlaying quotes from Foucault’s book and animal footage from digital space, the essay shows the extent to which this disciplinary apparatus is also applied to animals, thereby blurring the boundaries between humans and animals.
The spatial installation is a place that connects the exhibition and the forest and allows them to compete with each other. The medium of the wildlife camera embodies the power of the gaze. The wolf – captured with the wildlife camera – meets us as a digital projection, is at the same time also a projection surface and confronts us with our romantic idea of wild animals reduced to the spectacle of consumption.
26th to 29th October 2023 ∘ Jungkunst ∘ Halle 53, Katharina-Sulzer-Platz, Winterthur
23rd June to 2nd July 2023 ∘ WERKSCHAU 2023 ∘ HSLU Art & Design, Emmenbrücke
4th May and 21st June 2023 ∘ Corto Film Screening ∘ HSLU Art & Design, Emmenbrücke / Südpol, Luzern
Awards
2023 ∘ ST.ART Nachwuchsförderpreis Kultur of the Canton of Lucerne
Video essay «The Disciplining of Animals»
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds
Language: Valais dialect with english subtitlesFormat: Stereo, 1920 x 1080 with 60 frames/sec.
Installation «Canis lupus lupus»
Dauer: 10 minutes 14 seconds
Format: 4-channel-audio, 1920 x 1080 with 30 frames/sec.