| Title: | How to: Wishful thinking |
| Technique: | Installation (Videoperformances, Flytraps (altered to be non sticky) |
| Info: | In the installation how to: wishful thinking an immersive space of ambiguity is being created, consisting
of two parts, which both could also be exhibited individually: In the first part called Pechvogel you‘re
watching a tutorial-like video describing a traditional bird-hunting method, while there are sticky fly
traps (altered to be harmless) dangling from the ceiling. Both traps rely on the same trapping principle, yet one is recognized as cruel and is banned in the EU, while you can buy the fly traps in any supermarket.
The second part The superstition that blowing on a dandelion grants you a wish is incredibly beneficial to dandelion reproduction. plays with the joyful, seemingly innocent and superstitious gesture of blowing a dandelion. The title flips the story: Suddenly it‘s not you getting a wish, but the dandelion being helped by you to spread its seeds. This is only one way of looking at a small gesture like blowing dandelions – depending on the lens you‘re wearing the action becomes meaningless, naive, capitalist, extractivist or hurtful. The two video projections are accompanied by a drone piece recorded with
sounds of multiple leaf blowers. The installation talks about our hierarchies of empathy for different beings and our biases of how we look at gestures and connection.
More: This work was shown at ULTRALIGHT 7000 in Sierre in June 2025 and won the money price prix ÉDHÉA from the BEA foundation. |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Credits: | Many thanks to: Anne-Julie Racoursier, Kadiatou Diallo, everyone else involved |
