Between the Rains is a journey through contagious and collaborative visions – through ideology, through cross species encounter, through neurological symptoms. Between the Rains looks at the contagion of political fictions and reality models, focusing on the cultural shift during the medieval ergot epidemic and associated Dancing Plague, and its contemporary afterlife in informatics metaphors, work ethics and notions of embodiment. The body as porous reality interface is circled by visually simulating and theorizing my own neurological scotoms during migraines, and casting the ergot fungus as true pharmakon and, literally, a mushroom at the end of a world.
Installation view Preis der Nordwestkunst, Kunsthalle Wilhemshaven, cur. Petra Stegmann, WIlhelmshaven, DE
Installation view Too Soon To Say: The Unconference, Expanded Video Narratives, Various Others x Nebyula, cur, Karim Daniel Mourad, Bayrischer Hof, Munich, DE
script, locations, editing, camera, sound
Laura Leppert
locations
Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France; Strasbourg, France;Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
additional camera
Mathias Reitz Zausinger
performers
Johanna K Michel
supported & funded by
Social Impact EU
Bayern Innovativ / Junge Kunst & Neue Wege