In her blurring, pulsing video collage "Wollsau – die politische Sinnfreiheit eines pornographischen Blicks und der Kannibalismus in der Bildverwertung" [Wolly Sow: The Political Mindlessness of a Pornographic Gaze and the Cannibalism Found in the Exploitation of Images], the artist Susanne Schuda explores these terms and their efficacy. Common dialogue situations involving the viewer and the video image are overlaid and shown interactively, with models of reception already included once the visuals are employed. Added to the virtually pornographic surplus is a further telling facet, an immoral one that is subconsciously desired constantly by a present-day viewer-ego. Schuda’s video locks precisely onto this point where the dialectics of perpetrator (the visual producer) and victim (the visual consumer) can be portrayed in a virulent way distinguished by uncanny cooperation.
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Limited edition, signed by the artist: 33 + 4 exemplars
Edition text: Andreas Spiegl
Video: Susanne Schuda
Sound: Peter Szely
2011, 2:43 min.
Edition Medienturm, release 26 / Summer 13