Possession

2021/22 | 2-Channel Video installation | 31:19 min | UHD | 16:9 | stereo sound

also as One-Channel Video (2022, 29:21 min)



Possession wonders about fossil fuels and their agencies as poetic energizer, and plots a narrative against possessive enclosures. Energies die into things, and things keep their secrets. Bodies blur together, and extractive landscapes become stages for tentative futures.

Shot in the open coal mines of the Ruhrgebiet in western Germany, its surrounding torn down ghost villages and mountainous slagheaps, as well as subterranean karst caves in eastern Slovakia, the work joins contemporary panoramas, fictional narratives and analogue special effects.

Fossil fuels, substances which have no value to the capitalocene until they‘re burned, are cast as poetically energized materials, an incredibly dense complex of former organisms and ecosystems that can be resurrected.























Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan




Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan



Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan











Video stills































Other works in show


Possession (2021/22) and Interiority Sketches (2022), Installation view Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan






Interiority Sketches (2022),
Graphic series, 4 parts, acrylic glass, milled wood, marker on thermoplastic Installation view Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan




Holdings (2022),
Audioinstallation, 3:40 min, polypropylen, LED lights Installation view Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE ©Milena Wojhan











Credits

script, props, locations, costume design, editing, 2nd camera, set design
        Laura Leppert

DOP
        Mathias Reitz Zausinger

performers
        Johanna K Michel, Fredi de Graft, Gesche Witte

Drone operator
        Thomás da Silva

Original Music
        Georg Paul

Sound mixing
        Georg Paul

Sound recordings
        Florian Purschke

Lights
        Thomás da Silva

special thanks
        Alisha Raissa Danscher, Linda Schröer, Laila Schubert,
        Atelier Amore e. V., Günnemann Kotten Dortmund



supported & funded by

Stadt München, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Goethe Institut Slowakei, Slovak Arts Council, Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur, Steiner- Stiftung, CIKE Creative Industries, KAIR, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Schafhof Europäisches Künstlerhaus, Bezirk Oberbayern