Schift’s work draws on embodied research, dreamwork, archival material and craftsmanship. Her material-driven praxis is attuned to matter as a carrier of spiritual force, the body as a channel to ancient realms and the camera as a means of sensing what lies beyond conscious perception.
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- Embodiment, visceral, corporeal, experiential
- vessel, shamanism, bigender identity fusion, performance art.
- the human condition, psychic fragmentation, belonging and displacement, liminality, soul split
- form: ritual, temporal space of cine expandido, installation, jam karet
- form: objects and their spirits (product design)
- sailing worlds: cosmologies of the technic world and the magical world, collective unconscious, universal symbols
- Life and death, the very beginning of matter, the dust settling and becoming form and meaning, ancestry
- Dreams from the ancient world - the wild, landscape, the fortex of time
- numbness, sensitifity, hannah Arendt
I work with perception, I’m a creator of things that might or might not exist or have existed or might someday exist.
#adaptation
#guide
#shadows,
# projections (physical and psychological)
#thebeast
I work with and against the capitalism, which is the child of the colonial fantasy.
I need to write an essay on:
Why filmmakers should become designers, why designers should become anthropologists and why anthropologists should become filmmakers.
Cine Expandido - It’s not beyond and it’s not behind, it’s...
Reflections on “It’s too cold for the spirits to live here”
The fantasy of the colonies are as vivid as
Sonic entrainment:
In expanded cinema environments, entrainment often happens through the interaction of image rhythm, projection light, and sound.
Examples:
- looped film projections with repetitive sound
- multi-channel sound installations
- spatial acoustic environments
- audiovisual drones.
Instead of telling a story, the work modulates perception over time.
I work