Julischka Stengele | Portfolio
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Performance // Happening // Action Art // Photography // Installation // Video Art // Conceptual Art // Political Art // Feminist Art // Activism // Queer Art // Social Art Practices // Post-Studio Art // Time Based Art // Body Art // Community Art // Food Art // Teaching + Curatorial Work
This trailer, shot and edited by Lilly Pfalzer gives a brief overview of the queer performance art festival Purrr!-Femme!-ance! - Queer Femininities in Action, curated and organized by Julischka Stengele on September 15th 2019 at Otto-Wagner-Spital in Vienna. This event took place in the frame of Wienwoche - Festival for Art and Activism, Edition: ‘Bitches & Witches.
FEMMES AGAINST FASCISM
A one-day festival dedicated to celebrating and discussing the various existences, practices and desires of queer fem/femme identities through action. The devaluation of femininity and the pathologization of queer desire, gender non-conformity and body diversity is a long-standing issue. The witch hunts never ended. They transformed, and the legacy of patriarchal violence lives on under different names. Ten local and international queer/trans/ non-binary artists will present several performances, both indoors and in the surrounding nature on the premises of present-day Otto-Wagner-Spital, a psychiatric hospital complex that was a site of Nazi crimes. The subversive potential of feminine forms of expression will be further explored in a moderated talk.
Artists:
Alex Alvina Chamberland, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Benjamin Sebastian, Denise Kottlett, Jules Joanne Gleeson, krëlex zentre (Maria Vilkovisky, Ruthie Jenrbekova), Monika Freinberger, Monstera Deliciosa, Rosa Wiesauer
Project Assistant: Clara Hofmann
Dramaturgy Assistant: Lilly Pfalzer
Talk / Moderation: Juliane Saupe
Photography: Kelechi, Magdalena Fischer
Festival Assistants:
Flavia, Jonas, Kristin, Mathea, Max, Natalie, Noah, Nova, Robyn/Hugo, Ulli
Claudia Schmidt, Marie-Theres Gallnbrunner
Photograph created with and shot by Magdalena Fischer for my latest project Purrr!_Femme!-ance! - Queer Femininities in Action (Edition: Femmes Against Fascism) in the frame of Wienwoche - Festival for Art and Activism, Edition: Bitches & Witches on September 15th 2019 in Vienna.
Julischka Stengele - FAT FEMME FURIOUS
Solo Exhibition | Galerie im Turm, Berlin | Jan-March 2019
Curated by Sylvia Sadzinski
“Julischka Stengele’s solo exhibition focusses on the confrontation between the body and the societal gaze. Moving between installation, performance, sound and photography, FAT FEMME FURIOUS investigates role models and ideal body-types. Through this, Stengele understands the body as a space where discursive and normative preconceptions of desire, beauty, health and gender are made manifest, leading to societal processes of inclusion and exclusion. In tackling regimes of the gaze, the tension between looking and being looked-at is brought to the fore. It is the powerful gaze of others that attempts to define and classify us, forming identities and dictating their agency.Performatively deploying her own body, Stengele focusses on these socio-cultural power structures. An emphasis on the performance of femininity is coupled with queerness and an insurrection against body norms. Stengele unapologetically embodies a counter-project to androcentric principles, practicing a critique directed at societal imbalances and power relations.The exhibition space becomes a stage for a strong, feminist protest claimed by a body that is at once product and producer of society. Here, the political dimension of that which is labelled ‘the personal’ is allowed to unfold. Within the exhibition’s framework, the body becomes a medium for expressing resistance, agitating as a tool for self-empowerment in the moment where marginalised bodies hold the gaze of others and then consciously return it, projecting back (self-)images and narratives of their own.”
Text: Sylvia Sadzinski
Photos (installation view): Eric Tschernow
Photos (details of art works): Julischka Stengele
Dokumentation meines Projekts “Sehenswürdigkeiten - Ansichten von Grünau”, das ich als Artist-in-Residence im Rahmen von RASTER : BETON im Juli 2016 in Leipzig umsetzen durfte. Video: Manuela Staudte
This is the video documention of my project “Sehenswürdigkeiten - Ansichten von Grünau” which translates as Sights of Grünau. It has been developed during an artist residency in Leipzig/Germany in the frame of RASTER : BETON in July 2016. Camera: Manuela Staudte
FETTVERTEILUNG - Tischgespräche mit Kaffee & Kuchen
Eine Veranstaltung am 08. Juni 2016 im Rahmen des Festivals Soho in Ottakring von Julischka Stengele mit ARGE Dicke Weiber - Feministische Initiative dicker Frauen (Malena & Christine), Kristina Kuličová, Maira Enesi Caixeta und Sara Ablinger.
Dicke Menschen ernähren sich ungesund. Sie sind faul, maßlos und leistungsschwach. Gebildete Menschen achten auf ihre Körper. Das heißt: sie kaufen bio, essen vegetarisch und halten sich mit Sport in Form. Korrekt?
Beim Thema Essen sind Vorurteile und der erhobene Zeigefinger nie weit. Um Gesundheit geht es dabei allerdings nicht. Die Vorstellungen davon, was einen “guten” Körper und ein “richtiges” Konsumverhalten ausmachen, sind weniger von medizinischen Fakten als von u.a. neoliberalen, sexistischen oder rassistischen Strukturen geprägt.
Die Diskutantinnen* sprechen über diskriminierende Körperbilder, Fettfeindlichkeit, kapitalistische Werte und alternative Strategien im Umgang damit. Thematische Zuckerkunstwerke sorgen dafür, dass der Genuss dabei nicht zu kurz kommt.
In Kooperation mit Post-Conceptual Art Practices, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien | Das Leben hat Gewicht, Verein maiz - Autonomes Zentrum von & für Migrantinnen | Konditorei Marzipanina | deinetorte.de
Mehr Info unter: http://www.sohoinottakring.at/
Hinterland
Duration: 10 minutes
Date: Feb 2015
Location: Straight To Hell - Vienna’s 1st International Queer Performance Festival, Kosmostheater, Vienna, Austria
In collaboration with Veronika Eberhart
Veronika and I are among the audience and enter the stage from there. The set-up is already installed: a chair and three microphones on tripods: one left and right of the chair and one low on the floor behind it. We fix Veronika‘s head set and the position of the equipment according to our needs in a non-theatrical manner. Then, I take off my shoes and pants, kneel down on the chair with my back to the audience and Veronika stands behind the chair, facing the audience. Now, the projection turns on and shows a computer desktop with a mountain landscape. Veronika starts to speak/sing our reworked version of the Austrian National Anthem, while using my butt as an instrument. She claps the beat and moves the flesh to underline certain passages. Every now and then I join the singing/speaking, calling “Hinterland” (back land) from behind. After the last verse, which we sing together, the light goes off.
Photos: Anna Konrath / Ines Bacher
Documentation of my performance ‘The Ends of the World’ during the week of performance art 'THE END OF THE WORLD - OR WHY THE WORLD WON’T END, hosted by platform in Vaasa, Finland in August 2013.
Concept/Performance: Julischka Stengele
Camera: Marcus Lerviks
Editing: Julischka Stengele