YanaY
Becoming – always becoming … how to become a chrabbler*?
The sound is created by cockroach chrabblers and woodlouse chrabblers. Performed, recorded and arranged by human chrabblers.
*chrabbler = synonym for all crawling species, human and non-human.
Out of field recordings of cockroaches and woodlouses, ruedi tobler and tobibienz created a sound loop. Afterwards, tobibienz performed as a critter in the backyard by reacting to the sound of the critters. The video is shown in a terrarium, so the human body appears as a critter.
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Sound snippets from a live performance
Video snippet
Title: YanaY
Form: Audiovisual installation and live performance
Duration: 12 min
Venue: Bagno Popolare, Baden (Switzerland)
Date: December 2021
Credits
By: Ruedi Tobler and tobibienz
Vermin Bodies
A photo shooting with Kiril Staneov …
Title: Vermin Bodies
Performer: tobibienz
Involved: Photography by Kiril Staneov, Ivana Milenkovic #hotmailhotnail nail art
Form: Photography
Venue: Gallery Vladimir Dimitrov Maystora, Kyustendil (Bulgaria) and HotmailHotnail Nail Art Studio, Zurich (Switzerland)
Date: March, 2021
Parasite Selfie
Virtual collaboration between Victoria Papagni (ARG) and tobibienz (CH) in the frame of the Virtual Residency YET TO.COM(E). This residence arises from developing a specific project of the current pandemic situation and the possibilities of communication, collaboration and creative practices offered by the new digital media.
Becoming. Always becoming. A parasite, a vermin, a cockroach. Becoming. A selfie, a number, an algorithm, 00101100111, a 3D bio-material. Overcome the human aspect. Overcome the past. Overcome the future. A human, non-human critter collaboration? A naive low tech romance.
How would you collaborate with a cockroach? We want you, sexy cockroach.
Objects, insects and humans make up an horizontal trilogy composed at the same level: They interact with agency and mutual affectation, modelling human subjectivity in a synthetic pop landscape. Can we empathise with what is considered a symbol of marginalisation and unpleasantry? Who is the parasite?
Background:
The work is a physical, haptic research of a posthuman analysis of the power structures and relationships of the triangle: human – cockroach – (digital) object.
Victoria Papagni is a visual artist, based in Buenos Aires. Victoria and tobibienz started their collaboration within the virtual residency yet to .com(e), initiated by reconnect festival (USA), lodo plataforma (ARG), espace croisé (FR) & workittout (DE/CH).
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Parasite Selfie Video
Passwort: parasiteselfie
Title: Parasite Selfie
Form: Audiovisual work
Duration: 7 min
Venue: Reconnect Festival (USA, Argentina, France, Germany, Switzerland), +code Festival (Argentina), Bagno Popolare, Baden (Switzerland), HotmailHotnail Nail Art Studio, Zurich (Switzerland)
Date: April 2021
Credits
Work by: Victoria Papagni and tobibienz
Performance: Cockroaches & tobibienz
Camera: Tim Wettstein
Photo: Tim Wettstein, Hannah Gottschalk
Make-Up & Hair: Jeanne-Vera Bourguignon
3D Art: Victoria Papagni
3D Print: Duy Bui
Sound: YOTO
Nailart: Ivana Milenkovic #hotmailhotnail
Low Tech Post Human Romance
Lovers of a face in Buenos Aires, a nail salon in Zurich and a graveyard in Bulgaria:
A performance for cockroach and human bodies, 3D printed digital selfies and objects at the gallery.
As part of the Restart 2021 residency, organised by KONTEMPORA, tobibienz was invited to take part in a group exhibition in Kyustendil, Bulgaria.
The exhibition took place in the Gallery Vladimir Dimitrov Maystora and the work “LOW TECH POST HUMAN ROMANCE” was featured on national television in Bulgaria.
Title: Low Tech Post Human Romance
Performer: Victoria Papagni and tobibienz
Form: A performance for cockroach and human bodies,
3D printed digital selfies and objects at the gallery
Duration: 3h
Venue: Venue Gallery Vladimir Dimitrov Maystora, Kyustendil (Bulgaria)
Date: March 2021
Gift
On four screens, GIFT presents the personal journey of the three protagonists, on the trail of men’s movements, queer feminism and pop culture.
Our protagonists, two white cis men and one non-binary person from left-wing cultural circles, are certainly concerned with discrimination, power structures and sexism. Nevertheless, they reproduce internalised toxic masculinity and have even made a mark in front of their feminist friends with Judith Butler quotes. Why? And how different to others?
On four screens, GIFT presents the personal journey of the three protagonists, on the trail of men’s movements, queer feminism and pop culture. Why does it make me uncomfortable as a father when my son is the weakest kid on the playground? Why do I get pissed off when everything always comes back to the gender debate? And what does all this have to do with the fact that my mother cut my hair when I was a kid because she didn’t want me to be bullied in kindergarten?
GIFT is a contribution to a debate that concerns us all. And because we all don’t know any better and there are experts who have been dealing with all our questions for a long time, they are invited as guests. These experts prescribe the piece from their perspective, give inputs on allyship, pro-feminism and intersectionality and open the space for the joint discussion with the audience.
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Project Website
Title: Gift
Performer: Luisa Ricar, Felician Hohnlooser, David Jegerlehner and tobibienz
Form: Immersive video performance followed by discussions
Duration: film 45min, discussion 3h
Venue: Hyperlokal, Zürich (Switzerland); Karlstor, Heidelberg (Germany); Alte Münze, Berlin (Germany)
Date: September 2021
