Übersetzungen 03 (Brecht)

Workshop, video and installation, 2020

While in Chemnitz (DE), where I was taking part in the Dialogfelder residency, I made a series of (mainly) collaborative works based on sculptures and texts from the GDR era. The works constitute an attempt at instigating a dialogue between past and present.

Übersetzungen 03 (Brecht) is a video installation based on a workshop. During the workshop I invited passersby to trace figures on a piece of transparent plastic that covered the relief “Lobgedichte” (sculpted by different artists and based on Bertold Brecht’s praise poems.)

Thanks to:

Dialogfelder

Emma Dietrich

Hannah Geef

Alice Aucillo

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I wrote an essay about my working period in Chemnitz for Metropolis M

Dutch:http://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/42144_een_mal_van_het_verleden_kunstenaar_sem_bekirovi_over_het_maakproces_van_haar_uebersetzungen_vertaalslagen

English: http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/42144_an_impression_of_the_past_artist_sem_bekirovi_on_the_making_of_uebersetzungen_translations

Camera Muriel Wolf

Thanks to:

Dialogfelder

Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt

Family Gulde