The fleeting home of Augenweide
2024
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Documentary essay
30 minutes
by: Diana De Fex
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During an artistic research residency in Cologne, Germany, I decide, as part of my artistic proposal, to offer a homeless person a space in the theater to store his belongings for the duration of my residency. This documentary film gives an account of the conflicts and events generated in the theater as a result of this artistic proposal and the questions that are revealed regarding the role of art in society, the limits between art and life, the function and responsibility of the theater as a public entity and the tensions between institutional rules and the practice of solidarity.
With the support of Flausen + Stipendium 2022
Making a fuss
2022
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Video performance of fearless speech
27 minutes
Concept, text and performance: Diana De Fex
Dramaturgy/external eye: Nina DeLudemann
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This video was made during a research residency in which I decided to stop working with one of my colleagues and made this decision public as I understood this conflict part of my research. It can be seen as a parrhesiastic exercise in which the speaker makes public her own relationship to truth and faces the affective and institutional consequences it might trigger. It can also be seen as one performative act by a killjoy feminist.