WE DID NOT KNOW WHOM WE MEANT WHEN WE SAID WE

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two single channel video installation, vinyl plotting and one stereo sound work, 2021

Set in a high-diving swimming pool, a socialist modernist building, a group of artists follow the instructions of an Aqua-Aerobics coach. They have tasked her with forming the group into a collective, through exercises in the water. The camera captures the individual reactions to the instructions above the surface of the water – and the struggle underneath. In a state of voluntary floating, the responsibility of coming together as a collective is outsourced: to a coach we never see, or, to the water itself? The video is accompanied by a reflection on (imposed) collectivity.

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Collaborative work by Louis Hay, Franziska Koppmann, Jan-Luca Ott, Jonas Roßmeißl, Yara Saleh, Johanna Maj Schmidt, Stefania Smolkina, Su Yu Hsin, Max Wigger