multi-channel video installation with a performance, 2024 Halle 6, Munich, DE
"War Chronicles" is a multi-channel video installation showcased alongside the performance "Across the Blue Sea" at Halle 6 in Munich. Spanning two rooms, it includes a real tank barrier surrounded by semi-transparent fabric, onto which a 3D-generated sea made of bones is projected, bombarded by Iskander missiles. This served as a stage for the performance.
During the performance, for two hours, I sat on a tank barrier, my naked body was covered in white powder, and I wore a wreath made of frozen red beet juice in the shape of flowers on my head.
As the wreath gradually melted, veiling my body in a blood-like liquid, I simultaneously knitted on the ribbons and sang the Soviet children’s song „Песенка мамонтенка“ (Russian for "The Song of the Mammoth Calf"), in which the protagonist, a baby mammoth, desperately searches for his mother in the sea.
Across from the performance, there was an additional video projection showcasing witches with beards playing around on a tank. In the adjacent room, four more video projections were displayed. Two wall-spanning video projections included "The Last Supper", a video performance of a cannibalistic dinner, and a video collage featuring a human centipede. On two projection surfaces, inspired by military standards or war flags, there were displays of a braided stomach and a 3D collage depicting a kimono filled with intestines and a cut-out of an upper body.
