Site-specific intervention: plasterboard, paper, video, performance
Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg, Austria
August 2024
During the photography workshop at the Summer Academy Salzburg, I explored the parallels between constructing a room and building a camera. For two weeks, me and my roommate Josefin were accompanied by a virus that first attacked her lips and then her eyes. The fear that it might spread to intimate organs led me to question what a sick camera could be and what kind of images it might produce.
This physical experience mirrored the atmosphere of a darkroom — a space with red light, high temperatures, sweat, and the sound of dripping liquid. For the installation, I used green plasterboards designed for damp spaces, preventing the infected tear from spilling outward.
Alongside the installation, Josefin and I performed a reading about sick vision, the camera as a space, and bodily infections.