HEXENGESPRÄCHE / WITCH TALKS / Angela Anderson & Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*
TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Aug 11, 2021
In a conversation, the artists Angela Anderson and Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and curator Nina Tabassomi will discuss their installation Hexenküche (the witch rarely appears in the history of the proletariat), an expansive installation featuring a two-channel video work, created specifically for the exhibition. How does the present relate to the historical witch hunt? Where specifically do the economic and ideological infrastructures of the historical witch-hunts reverberate today? What about present-day rural capitalism, the right to abortion, or the question of property? To whom does what belong? What stories of feminist uprisings exist in Tyrol, and to what extent was the figure of the witch appropriated by them? What forms of commemoration would be adequate to such a sustained act of violence as the historic witch-hunt that until the present has remained trivialized within the official narratives of European history?