HaFI 017 – Karolin Meunier: Aller-retour et aller. On “Wanda” and “Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden”. Karolin Meunier. Harun Farocki Institut & Motto Books

Posted in Film, Motto Books on February 23rd, 2023
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In 2019, Karolin Meunier presented the performance Aller-retour et aller for the first time at Arsenal Cinema in Berlin. This was followed by a screening of the film Wanda (1970) by Barbara Loden, one of the most important works of independent filmmaking by female directors. For HaFI 017, Meunier documents her performance script. Among other references, she engages with Nathalie Léger’s book Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden (2012) by translating text excerpts in dialogue with a friend. In this essayistic novel, Léger follows the traces of the film in her search for the actress and director Barbara Loden.

In HaFI 017: Aller-retour et aller, Meunier’s artistic gestures of experimental translation echoes the intertwining of these three women’s quest by dissolving the biographies of the film character, the actress, and the novelist: “A woman telling her own story through that of another woman.” (Nathalie Léger). The pamphlet includes an afterword by Clio Nicastro.

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Show, Demonstrate, Exchange. Performance – Art – Academy, Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether (Eds.). State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, performance, writing on January 29th, 2014
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Show, Demonstrate, Exchange. Performance – Art – Academy, Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether (Eds.).  State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

A publication by the department of Fine Arts / Intermedia Arts of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

Edited by Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether.
Contributions: Jeremiah Day , Felix Ensslin, Sabrina Karl, Karolin Meunier, Yorgos Sapountzis, Ute Waldhausen, and others.

Johannes Paul Raether and Discoteca Flaming Star document the performances and discussions of the first two organised events in Berlin and Stuttgart. In addition, texts by the artists Karolin Meunier and Jeremiah Day, specially written for the publication, deepen the immediate impressions of the evenings and reflect from their own practice problems developed in the field of performance, art and academy.

Deutsche / English
164 pages, b/w illustrations

€10
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