Land Of My Family

1 mobile phone video – 00min08

This film miniature was created in the third laboratory on the subject of siblings. 

The mobile phone video shows a grey container of 10 eggs on a dark kitchen surface. The front row is empty, there is an egg in the row behind it, the row behind that is empty again and there are three eggs in the last two rows. The camera slowly moves from the empty row across the egg container and reveals the different egg constellations step by step. The country code AT is visible on the eggs. 

The video is linked to and inspired by the video ‘Countries of my mother’ (https://www.mdw.ac.at/confrontingrealities/dafa_object/lander-meiner-mutter/).

What is my family constellation?

Are there people in my family who get on better or worse?

How has this changed over time?

Which identities would I intuitively ascribe to myself and my family?

Are there intuitively social factors, such as age, location, gender, social class and abilities as well as political events, which influence or have influenced the family position?

How would you depict this family constellation artistically so that another person could understand it?

 Wie ist meine Familienkonstellation?

Gibt es Personen in meiner Familie, welche sich besser oder schlechter verstehen?

Wie hat sich das über die Zeit verändert?

Welche Identitäten würde ich intuitiv mir und meiner Familie zuschreiben?

Gibt es intuitiv soziale Faktoren, wie Alter, Ort, Geschlecht, soziale Klasse und Fähigkeiten sowie politische Ereignisse, welche die Familienposition beeinflussen oder beeinflusst haben?

Wie würdest du diese Familienkonstellation künstlerisch darstellen, sodass eine andere Person sie nachvollziehen kann?