Possession
also as One-Channel Video (2022, 29:21 min)
Shot in the open coal mines of the Ruhrgebiet in western Germany, its surrounding torn down ghost villages and mountainous slagheaps, as well as subterranean karst caves in eastern Slovakia, the work joins contemporary panoramas, fictional narratives and analogue special effects.
Fossil fuels, substances which have no value to the capitalocene until they‘re burned, are cast as poetically energized materials, an incredibly dense complex of former organisms and ecosystems that can be resurrected.
Graphic series, 4 parts, acrylic glass, milled wood, marker on thermoplastic Installation view Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan
Audioinstallation, 3:40 min, polypropylen, LED lights Installation view Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan
script, props, locations, costume design, editing, 2nd camera, set design
Laura Leppert
DOP
Mathias Reitz Zausinger
performers
Johanna K Michel, Fredi de Graft, Gesche Witte
Drone operator
Thomás da Silva
Original Music
Georg Paul
Sound mixing
Georg Paul
Sound recordings
Florian Purschke
Lights
Thomás da Silva
special thanks
Alisha Raissa Danscher, Linda Schröer, Laila Schubert,
Atelier Amore e. V., Günnemann Kotten Dortmund
supported & funded by
Stadt München, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Goethe Institut Slowakei, Slovak Arts Council, Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur, Steiner- Stiftung, CIKE Creative Industries, KAIR, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Schafhof Europäisches Künstlerhaus, Bezirk Oberbayern