PLAYGROUND, 2025
Playground is a video poem that explores the traces of the wounded, plastic bodies of forest animals used in Bogenparcours (an archery practice) in Austria.
After spending some time coexisting with these static foam animals and with the forest itself, I decided to read them a chapter from a book that tells the story of a hunter and a fox. An attempt to explain to these creatures what happened to them, why they are hunted, why they are wounded.
In the video, an imaginary conversation unfolds between a hand, a deer, a wounded mountain and a musical score.
The work was created during a residency at GRUND1535 in the Alps.
Link to the video
After spending some time coexisting with these static foam animals and with the forest itself, I decided to read them a chapter from a book that tells the story of a hunter and a fox. An attempt to explain to these creatures what happened to them, why they are hunted, why they are wounded.
In the video, an imaginary conversation unfolds between a hand, a deer, a wounded mountain and a musical score.
The work was created during a residency at GRUND1535 in the Alps.
Link to the video
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In the frame of FOCUS INTERNATIONAL Office Ukraine (Re)creation Residency at GRUND1535
Rietz, 2025