Francis & Co. – Hexen in Luzern, 2018
Soundperformance, dimension variable
with Caroline Ann Baur, Martina Buzzi
PTTH:// Kunstpavillon Tribschenhorn, Luzern Switzerland, 2018
nextex, St.Gallen Schweiz, 2018
link to video
password: frances
In the exhibition, curated by Maria-Cecilia Quadri and Lea Schaffner, the figure of the witch is taken up as an omnipresent theme. Behind this fascination, be it in feminist resistance struggles or in pop culture, there are indeed atrocities, the majority of which were committed by women.
In a lecture performance, the two of them then examine more closely whether magic can still be effective as a force of resistance in times of emerging irrational powers. Afterwards, the artists Vanessà Heer, Caroline Ann Baur and Martina Buzzi will join in with their voices in a flowing transition and process the coveted image of "sisterhood" into a sonic necromancy by means of historical and fictional fragments. With the use of delay, the present is multiplied and embedded in a sonic time-space continuum. The perception of a simple present and the immediate moment as a sense of time mutates into illusion.