Gender & Space // Becoming Medusa or Medusa: Storytelling as Collective Resistance
Students of the studio Gender and Space invite you to explore the Aula as an island, a place of ecdysis and transformation. In the multimedia installation Becoming Medusa storytelling works as collective resistance.
The Aula at Schillerplatz is a space where fragments of history are petrified, carved into stone and marble. The red white pillar columns are ordering the space, reaching into another time. A time of imperialism and oppression, of stories about male heroes, the formation of nation states and the shaping of the world through categorization. The room inevitably conserves and manifests these stories of money and hegemonial power.
This is why we need ecdysis to evolve. Ecdysis means emancipation—breaking away from old structures, leaving old and rotten skin behind, creating space for something new.
Using the method of storytelling to question established convictions, the four Medusa heads engraved into the ceiling of the Aula tell us another version of their story.
Their Retelling of the Myth Becoming Medusa invites us to an island of collective resistance and feminist technologies. Through sound, smell and touch Medusa's story unfolds.
Participants: Renée Tischer, Jim Wolff, Karlotta Lou Bohacz, Benoît (Yann) Delon-Jacquin