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  • Exploring the space in between – a video research project in the post-migrant city   research-based, video

  • By hanging posters throughout the city, I seek to engage participants for a film about what it is like to feel at home- or not to feel at home. At locations chosen by the respective protagonists, we attempt to figure out, through conversation, what it means to “feel at home” and how these notions can be represented filmically.

  • The long poem of the space in between   research-based

  • Made in collaboration with the fellow Digital Anthropologies researchers and practitioners, this intervention, titled The long poem of the space in between, served as an opportunity to recontextualize findings from my ongoing video research project Exploring the space in between, which I had been working on for about a year at the time. After filming intensely in the weeks preceding this intervention, I turned off the camera and computer in order to focus on the essential: the connection between us, her, him, it, me, the environment of our meeting place and the objects present in that environment. To this end, I also applied certain Games for Actors and Non-Actors from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. With the participants of the group residency, we explored the in-between space, that which stands between us, that which connects us to each other, that which connects us to the in-between space.

  • Le métier de vivre [Life’s work]   research-based, video

  • The video essay tells the story of two male midwives in Geneva, Switzerland. Due to conflicts in their home countries (Burundi and Iran), the two men fled to Switzerland, where they became the first men working as midwives there. Through the vita of these two people, the video essay seeks to challenge dichotomies of man-woman, black-white, north-south, and foreigner-native.

  • Parcours   installation, research-based, video

  • The three chapters of this video installation play in three cities in the Ruhr region of Germany. There are three protagonists of different generations walking down the pedestrian streets of these cities on foot. A long camera movement shows them only from behind, their eyes fixed on what they have in front of them. They tell personal stories related to the emergence and appropriation of public space, as well as the region’s history of coal mining.

  • BIOS: Histoires de la Ruhr [BIOS: Stories from the Ruhr Region]   edition, photos, research-based

  • This artist’s book was created during the research for the video installation Parcours. It brings together many personal and less personal stories that did not make their ways into the videos of the installation: about parts of the conversations with the protagonists of the videos; about a visit underground with three miners in one of the last mines of the Ruhr region still open today; about other artistic practices from the region including those of Richard Serra and James Benning, among others. The stories are juxtaposed with abstract drawings and photos of mushrooms, which stand for the diversity of the stories that were collected in the region, and for the deep connection of the Ruhr region with the soil.