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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Evelin Stermitz (124)

SILENCE
experimental performative video
DV PAL/NTSC 2009
loop / total time 00:01:00:00
Sound by Elise Kermani, Ear Music, 2001.
Performance and Video by Evelin Stermitz.
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Textual structures on body fragments as inscriptions on the female body of metaphorical injuries by rape violence are merging into an image of speechless suppression by male supremacy. Rape remains as a silent terror and global transgression, as a silent field of unspoken reality, because the afflicted women are broken.

This video work is created for FemLink The International Video Collages, on the collage theme of 'Aggression' for the year 2010.


WHITE BAND CUT
video performance
DV PAL/NTSC 2007
3 channel video
total time 00:09:25:00
Performance, Sound, Video by Evelin Stermitz.
Special credits to Nina Sobell for access to her studio.
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The ritualised cutting of a white band wrapped around the body symbolizes the metaphoric disposal of inner and outer bonds as restrictions in an internal monologue. The woman can be seen as a gift as well as a captive. The white band describes muted halcyon segues flowing in a void space.