Shira Wachsmann - TankWoman
Past exhibition
Overview
TankWoman is a moving-image correspondence with a tank that tries to identify a certain feedback loop relationship and its circulation that exists between the tank, human and the landscape. The opera correspondence refers to some of the most iconic images of the tank and its relationship with humans in history. These images, that capture a correspondence between tank and human in the « moment before » are persistent marks that circulate. In these particular moments of the « moment before » where a structure gets formed through re-membering, there is both: the formation of hope, while at the same time the absurdity of hope in the face of the ongoing wars. Nonetheless, in these specific moments, characterized by courage and resistance rather than impending devastation, hope enters the equation of the « moment before ». It does so through the open-endedness of these moments, each containing the potential to develop in multiple directions.
Shira Wachsmann is an artist and researcher working across moving image, collage, drawing, augmented reality, and digital arts. Wachsmann’s approach takes a sensuous and poetic form, often multi-threaded, non-linear, collective, and with emphasis on the contemporary issues of our times. Political, post-anthropocene, she tells a story of human-interspecies-machinic evolution, interspersed with war, sexualities, and hope. Recently completed a practice-led PhD at the Royal College of Art, « Landscape, War, Trauma, Explosion: Re-Membering the Moment Before » which examined the complexities of war trauma - how trauma can sink into the common sense of people, undetected; how it can circulate, (re)shape and (re)structure collective consciousness and with it, the very landscape of one’s life. Wachsmann is a researcher at the RP2-8 Real World AI Narratives Lab with AiDesign Lab at the Royal College of Art.
Shira Wachsmann is an artist and researcher working across moving image, collage, drawing, augmented reality, and digital arts. Wachsmann’s approach takes a sensuous and poetic form, often multi-threaded, non-linear, collective, and with emphasis on the contemporary issues of our times. Political, post-anthropocene, she tells a story of human-interspecies-machinic evolution, interspersed with war, sexualities, and hope. Recently completed a practice-led PhD at the Royal College of Art, « Landscape, War, Trauma, Explosion: Re-Membering the Moment Before » which examined the complexities of war trauma - how trauma can sink into the common sense of people, undetected; how it can circulate, (re)shape and (re)structure collective consciousness and with it, the very landscape of one’s life. Wachsmann is a researcher at the RP2-8 Real World AI Narratives Lab with AiDesign Lab at the Royal College of Art.
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