The artist discusses her residency project:
“The project started in 2017 with Daniela Schiller in New York City, the Israeli-born neuroscientist is the head of the Schiller Lab for Affective Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is known for her work on memory consolidation and the elimination of traumatic memories.
I interviewed her and spent some time in her Lab, observing and gaining material. I was interested in Memory consolidation and the fight against Trauma and the research in PTSB.
I work very intuitively, often starting from an autobiographical impulse, along the border of documentation and fiction and with physical experiences. With juxtaposing footage I put what seems familiar in a new discursive context.
The research was the starting point and the journey began from there.
Memories and fear led me to the Labs of the Max Planck institute where they create digital Gemini’s of humans. It was a journey into hope (because on digital gemini different things can be tested) but also into fear (the Urangst of humans being replaced by machines).
”Machines” – an ambivalent topic and that lead me to dive Into the Atlantic Ocean. Where technical devices extend our own possibilities. The dive into extremes and into a different world led me to the the largest artificial sun (Jülich, Germany) and that merged with the rest of the footage. Everything then circled back to my starting point at the Lab.
No high without the low, outlines the rollercoaster of life we are in. Through juxtaposing the footage I can create new views and meaning and bring worlds together that normally are not seen next to each other. The poetic odyssey will talk about desire, hope, what we are dedicated to and what we fight for.”
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