ANAMNESIS

2006

Public Project: Canvas, graphite, charcoal, scythes, performance, with participation of local women and passersby

Video and sound: Duration 14 minutes. Filmed, edited and sound composed by the artist

ESSAY/ARTIST STATEMENT

The next day I meet with local women who may agree to participate in Anamnesis. Together with my translator we visit several private houses surrounding the castle. I am looking for older women, who are or were farmers. I talk to them about my artistic pursuit and that I consider the act of harvesting and plowing the earth as symbolically and physically interrelated to the act of drawing. I ask them, among others, to speak of their work in great detail, the cultura of agri . From the fragments of the recordings of our conversations I will create a sonic field incorporating layers of their voices and the sounds of the environment. After the recordings are done we set up the time for the women to come to the castle, where they will sew together sheets of white cotton. Later, on this cotton canvas, I will lie down and draw around my body. (Monika Weiss, Anamnesis - światlo dnia, 2006)

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