Christine Bruckmeier
Can mechanisms of social exclusion be detected visually within our mimics, gestures, our body language? By researching field studies on mobbing and discrimination, I realized that it is almost impossible to find visual material, compared to the huge amount of statistics; as if these phenonemons would resist any form of visualization. Is it possible to develop an artistic methodology that could help to visualize the invisible?
Social exclusion does focus on what is conventionally understood to be abnormal behaviour. But how can you grasp the abnormal, versus the normal? In photoshootings with a professional actor I tried in a first step to capture body movements in terms of the grotesque, in senseless, ill and silly gestures; spontanous and artificial at the same time. Based on these photographies, I have started working on collage-drawings of isolated human figures.
In a second step I want to approach the subject in the form of an anthropologic field study: I will test the reaction of a public confronted with odd behaviour performed by an actor. By videotaping those situations with hidden cameras, I hope to capture visual habbits of exclusion. In a form of pull-back-situation in the studio, the actor will then reinact in front of a video- and photocamera the reaction of the public by analyzing single gestures and habits of people I videotaped in public space.
Jasper
2007
pencil/paper
120 x 100 cm
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