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21/11/2003

Kristina Inciuraite

Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck

/badehaus - bathhouse/

in her videos kristina inciuraite (1974, lives and works in vilnius, lithuania) focuses on features of female identity and the socio-psychological circumstances that have made influence on her identity.

"the contemporary woman is widely presented in society as 'an object of desire'. i criticize the existing scopophilic stereotype. i present a woman like an invisible, but very active participator in a concrete situation. we can't see, but we can hear her. my videos feature quite static, minimal or even frozen images, however the female voice reveals dynamic stories and breaks frozen images. she talks about daily life, hidden and unrealized dreams or nostalgic memories. thus i don't eliminate female identity, on the contrary - i accentuate it through verbal representation.
the representation of women is focused on the historic connotations that are more or less decadent in today's society. in the film, created and presented in 'buchsenhausen.labor' i continue with woman's discourses that are revealed through a historic perspective.

/badehaus - bathhouse/, 2003
the film was inspired by the movie 'ecstasy' (1933) starring the austrian actress hedwig eva maria kiesler who later became famous in hollywood as hedy lamarr. in this movie a young twenty-year old actress performed naked in a swimming scene that lasted 10 minutes and that shocked european society as well as her husband, austrian industrialist fritz mandl, who unsuccessfully tried to purchase all existing copies of ecstasy.
trying to recreate the scandalous atmosphere of this movie produced at the beginning of 20th century, i have chosen an impressive and still operating bathhouse, opened in 1927 in innsbruck, located in salurner street. at that time this bathhouse was the most modern and most beautiful in austria. i am shooting empty premises of the bathhouse, interviewing female students at the 'schauspielforum tirol' (school of actors) who are of the same age as hedwig eva maria kiesler when she acted the naked scene. what do future actresses think of nudity? what is the correlation between erotic and shame? could they perform naked in a pool-swimming scene? could anyone forbid them to act in such a role? although a lot is told of body and eroticism in this film, the young narrator is not visible as in my earlier films. she can only be imagined. most probably imagination begets eroticism and passion rather than the naked reality.

reflections of bodily reality and eroticism that melted into the proportions of venus have become classic in the art history, however these reflections assume different social and psychological tinge in different societies. the film gives a chance to look back into the past so we can reassert modern values, relations of eroticism and morality." kristina inciuraite, november 2003

kristina inciuraite is resident artist at kunstlerhaus buchsenhausen in october and november 2003.

video screening november 22, 2003, 19h

kunstlerhaus buchsenhausen,
weiherburggasse 13, 6020 innsbruck, austria
phone +43 512 278627-10, fax -11

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