Screening
Sight for sore eyes is a film screening that will function as an intervention of the exhibition Life on its own.
The screening highlights various aspects of "storytelling" as a tool to examine the mythical environment in our everyday lives.
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a "lamp", it's not a "woman, but a "woman". To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role. It is the farthest extension, in sensibility, of the metaphor of life as theater."
- Susan Sontag, Notes on "Camp"
Considered under the concept of camp, a style or sensibility that seeks to express irony and subversion of mainstream society through a gaudy aesthetic, as Susan Sonntag defines it in her essay "Notes on Camp."
The works on view are detached from their original exhibition context, and the serial form of the presentation brings the positions together into an overall "film experience."
With works by: Maja Li Härdelin, Christine Dahlerup, Evi Jägle, Julian Ernst, Daphne von Schrader, Iris Böhnlein, Charlotte Gash, and Lera Weinrub
Foto © Julian Ernst
