24.09.2025
19:30 – 21:00
Open Air Art-Kino
Ort: Kieler Schloss (Hof)

Open Air Art-Kino ist ein von Studierenden der Muthesius Kunsthochschule kuratiertes Format. Eigene filmische Arbeiten treten in Dialog mit Werken etablierter Künstler*innen sowie mit Filmen von Studierenden anderer Kunsthochschulen.

Artist Film:
Blaise Kirschner, UNICA, 2022 (36min)

UNICA is named after the writer and artist Unica Zürn (1916 – 1970), whose illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958) figures her body and her institutionalisation as one formation. Rethinking contemporary forms of immersion in simulated worlds through Zürn’s body-building, UNICA attends to the syncretic lifeforms that emerge from the intra-actions between the organismic, technological and phantasmal today. The latent presence of an unnamed catastrophe is repeatedly evoked by the protagonists, an artist and a motion-capture performer, via overlapping references to post-apocalyptic computer games, drawings, and dreams. This deliberate indeterminacy is extended to Teufelsberg, a forested hill on the outskirts of Berlin made from the debris of Second World War ruins, where parts of the work were filmed. By merging motion capture with quasi-archaeological procedures, UNICA calls attention to the artificial naturalisation of historical and ongoing violence, and the conditions of possibility for its decoding and disruption.

UND Filmen Studierender des Royal Institut of Art, Stockholm