ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW
LA FEMME HABITABLE (HOW TO SQUAD ON A WOMAN)
Produced by THE DISSIDENT GODDESSES‘ NETWORK (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) in cooperation with THE LAND OF THE GODDESSES (Alberndorf and Haugsdorf, Lower Austria) for the Collateral Project INFINITE VILLAGE/MANIFESTA 13 curated by Francisa Viudes
The performance video LA FEMME HABITABLE unfolds the registers of dwelling, on a site within the LAND OF THE GODDESSES (Alberndorf im Pulkautal, Lower Austria) which was purchased and founded by a group of artists and cultural workers in 2020.
Founding the LAND OF THE GODDESSES was motivated by the large number of prehistoric Venuses which were discovered in Lower Austria, among them the reknowned Venus of Willendorf.
A mongolian yurt designed as the in-situ-parliament of THE LAND OF THE GODDESSSES provides the stage set for a series of gestures by which the performer and co-performers scan ecologically relevant intertwinements of bodies: the large body of Gaia, mother earth, the landscape, the surrounding horizons, the woods, the humans and other beings, plants and fruits. The mongolian tent, built upon a paleolithic mammouth hunterer site from the time of the Venus of Willendorf, acts like a hot spot or trigger point in this setting, like a portal for entering the fairy tale dimensions of the land. The agencement of mother earth, the milieu and the bodies of the performers unveil to which extent the „body producing body“, namely the female body, serves as an origin to all forms of habitat.
Script and set design : Elisabeth von Samsonow
Performers : Elisabeth von Samsonow, Evelyn Plaschg and Florian Holzer, Karl Koran, Elisabeth Koran, Gerda Schaludek, Luna
Camera : Mira Kluge
Postproduction : Elisabeth von Samsonow and Mira Kluge Sound and vocals : David Sanderson
Austria 2020
Le film de ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW fait parti du projet Infinite Village (concept: Cora Von Zeschwitz & Tilman / Direction Artistique: Francisca Viudes) sélectionné pour participer à la Biennale "Manifesta13" dans la section Les Parallèles du Sud.
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