KIP MASKER, Beta SP, 3 min, 2007, Distribution Sixpackfilm
Body parts are veiled in textured outfits. Soft, strained breathing accompanies the picture, intermixed with the occasional crackling of latex. From the start, I am faced with the task of disentangling the compositions magnified on screen: a hole purposely cut into a white bra with a shoulder muscle swelling over the seams? A white supporter for a packer (a silicone penis), worn the other way around? Flesh-colored straps of rubber to squeeze the stomach? Nylon stocking material that surrounds a torso. A black latex bodice with hair protruding outwards - from the underarms or the pubic region? What I want to do is to calm the shimmering, still-standing pictures, turn the monitor around 80 degrees, 190 degrees and back again to be able to track down the individual body parts and pieces of material. But before I can act on this idea, turn my head 90 degrees to the side, hang it down—the textiles and bodies, gushing constrictions, squashed sprawls and subdued panting are already over. Three minutes, 25 seconds.
(Johanna Schaffer)
The absurd combination of the body and the misappropriated use of clothing enlist the viewer into a fluid stream of sculptural moments and constructs that dissolve after a fleeting manifestation. (…) The performance intends to analyze and play with ideas about the body, the fetishization of clothing, and lastly, question whether it is possible to rethink the perception of the (nude) body.(…)In KIP MASKER I unite the roles of performer and camerawoman (video artist). I see these two functions united in one person as an expression of a new, expanded concept of feminist self evidence.
(Maria Petschnig)
VIDEO SCREENINGS (Selection):
2009 Video in Progress 3, New Media Center 'Kino Siska',Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laznia Contemporary Art Centre in Gdansk, Poland
Poco Brillo, El Bodegón, Bogotá, Colombia
Reduced Polish, Alucine Media Festival, Toronto, Canada
Eroticism and Pornography in the Austrian Film, Film Archiv Austria, Vienna
13 Lessons in Performance, Top Kino, Vienna, Austria
2008 39th Annual Nashville Film Festival, Tennessee, USA
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Inside Out,18th Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Canada
Mediawave, International Film & Music Festival, Györ, Hungary
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2007 Denver International Film Festival, Colorado
“Mind the Gap,” Top-Cinema, Vienna, Austria
Diagonale 07, The Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, Austria
“Videolab Lagos 2007”, Lagos, Portugal
“Image - Body”, Transnatura Videolab, Coimbra, Portugal
18th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brasil
“Ultraspective,” Monkey Town, Brooklyn, New York