A program on grasping the body in and as an image. In The Pips, we follow the choreography of a gymnast to inaudible music: an exercise in dissolution. In Her + Him, a found nude photograph offers the occasion for a portrait of the artist in whose studio it was taken. A dialog, also between media. Rosebud feels its way along the roughly processed surfaces of photographic images on the threshold between inside and outside, seeing and touching. Sanctus works on historical X-ray images and thus illustrates the tension between contemplation and violence. A Rough History… reflects on acts of effacing as live-saving measures. 
 
EMILY WARDILL, The Pips, UK 2010, s/w, digital, 4' (stumm)
AKRAM ZAATARI, Her + Him, LB 2001, s/w, digital, 32' (Arab. OF, Engl. UT)
JAMES RICHARDS, Rosebud, UK 2013, s/w, digital, 13' (o.D.)
BARBARA HAMMER, Sanctus, US 1990, Farbe, 16mm, 19' (o.D.)
AYESHA HAMEED, A Rough History (Of The Destruction Of Fingerprints), UK 2014-2017, Farbe, digital, 10' (Engl. OF)