MONTAGE NEU – NOVEL MONTAGE
2012 | 4 screenings 4'–17'', 16 mm b/w negative
transformed by means of editing desk, video camera and computer
Texts: reanimations – newly narrating (hi)stories
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installation view
"MONTAGE NEU"
photo: Nathalie Koger
installation view
"MONTAGE NEU"
photo: Nathalie Koger
In Nathalie Koger's artwork "NOVEL MONTAGE: Ideology and Corporeality", historical material is coupled with contemporary images and visual finds from a corporeal/militant examination. The Workers’ Olympics served as a demarcation to the aesthetics and ideology of the bourgeois Olympics which were geared to discipline and competition. They were regarded as an instrument of solidarity and collectivization and served to convey knowledge of physical regeneration. In the images of 1925, corporeality is depicted foremost within a group, as opposed to representations of bodies in privacy or beset by the economic system. These private and exhausted bodies seeking relaxation can, however, only be sensed in the depictions of current body therapies and bodily applications (touching, sweeping etc.) that are juxtaposed with the video images of the Workers’ Olympics. Manual techniques that are today used individually as applied body therapy were recorded and followed by the camera. In the shots from 2013, the forms of movement and the bodily-tactile treatment of the therapists are shown in filmic images.
Note:
On the one hand, movement techniques can be employed as combined weapons against bodily and emotional mechanisms of exploitation. On the other, the symptoms submitted to private therapy, and often accompanied by pangs of shame and guilt, can be understood as contributions to the development of consciousness (in the sense of the Feminist Consciousness-Raising Groups of the sixties and of What’s Private is Political). The purpose must be a collective abatement of the causes, and not the “correction” or therapy of individually suffered symptoms.
translated by Péter Litván
courtesy of: Kunstverein Bellevue-SaalWilhelm Prager
"Die neue Großmacht"
1925 (documentation
of the Workers'
Olympics in Frankfurt)
Wilhelm Prager
"Die neue Großmacht"
1925 (documentation
of the Workers'
Olympics in Frankfurt)
Wilhelm Prager
"Die neue Großmacht"
1925 (documentation
of the Workers'
Olympics in Frankfurt)
Wilhelm Prager
"Die neue Großmacht"
1925 (documentation
of the Workers'
Olympics in Frankfurt)
Wilhelm Prager
"Die neue Großmacht"
1925 (documentation
of the Workers'
Olympics in Frankfurt)
Wilhelm Prager
"Die neue Großmacht"
1925 (documentation
of the Workers'
Olympics in Frankfurt)
Credits
with: Beatrice Bornath (Tantra/Wiesbaden), Katja Sümenicht
(Shiatsu/Wiesbaden), Janpen Tantz (Thai Massage/oil massage)
Assistance: Mathias Windelberg
Sound collage: Uwe Oberg
Direction, camera, post production, editing: Nathalie Koger
With kind support of bm:ukk, Deutsches Filmarchiv Wiesbaden
and Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal Wiesbaden. -
Acknowledgements
to Eva Egermann and
to the magazine Malmoe
(publication of the poster)
Poster for Malmoe
http://www.malmoe.orgscreenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy)
screenshot from "MONTAGE NEU", 2012 (documentation: diverse types of manual therapy) 
