Selman, Selma: Mercedes Matrix

Selman, Selma: Mercedes Matrix

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Title Mercedes Matrix
Type Performance, Action
Date 2019
City of production Hamburg, Germany
Format 1920x1080 pxl
Duration 10' 09"
URL http://2020.cityofwomen.org/sl/content/selma-selman-matrica-mercedes
Registration number CoW-2019-PERF-811

Synopsis

The video Mercedes Matrix documents a collective performance, originally performed at the 2019 edition of Krass Kampnagel festival in Hamburg, in which the artist and her family re-enacted their usual daily labour practice: the dismantling of a Mercedes-Benz car to be recycled as spare parts. The integration of the family’s economic activity to the art sector highlights the value-making processes within the arts. According to art historian Jasmina Tumbaš, a distinctive relation between the body and identity is central to Selma Selman’s artistic practice. And similarly to feminist practices from the 1970s onward (e.g. also found in the works of Hanna Wilke or Sanja Iveković), Selma Selman questions the violence, inherent to identity politics: the processes of objectification, othering and exoticisation of the so-called “others”.

Sodelujejo

Performance Selma Selman, Hari Selman, Muhamed Selman, Mirsad Pučić
Video Mario Ilić
Editing (film, video) Peter Chong-ha Lee
Music Philip Glass

Artist, artistic group

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