Boudry / Lorenz

From the Goethe-Institute: “Alongside live readings and an illustrated discussion on the aesthetics of war and conflict, artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz present a unique compilation of their latest moving-image installation works, including I Want (2015), a double-channel video installation that features artist Sharon Hayes performing the voices of punk poet Kathy Acker, imprisoned activist Chelsea Manning, First Lady Jackie Onassis, and abducted heiress-turned-political-revolutionary Patty Hearst. Switching between political biographies, I Want questions whether the channeling of identities both past and present might reveal a slippery composite self—one resistant to pathologization and less susceptible to social control.”