SocietyTrash, Contragic Fine Arts: 10/1/15

Inspired by my short tearm pet Dracula (and many other youtube skunks)

Dancing With The Skunk (2013)

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Rasende Liebe verkennt häufig die Realität der von ihr begehrten Objekte. Sie projiziert die Notwendigkeiten des eigenen Begehrens auf einen fremden Körper. So ergeht es Sexualpartnern wie auch Haustieren. Die Bilderserie »Dancing with the skunk« basiert auf den Drohgebährden eines Stinktiers. Als Schomburg nach einem jahrelangen Besitz von Frettchen eine Allergie entwickelte, stieg sie auf ein Stinktier um, welches eine ähnliche Körperform besitzt. Leider wandte sich das neue Haustier der Künstlerin vor allem mit dem Hintern zu. Beide mussten sich wieder trennen. Während einer nostalgischen YouTube-Suche begegnete Schomburg eine Reihe von TierbesitzerInnen, die das stressbedingte Droh- und Abwehrverhalten ihrer Tiere vielmehr als amüsante und liebenswerte Eigenart verstehenverstanden. In einer Performancestudie kleidete sich Schomburg daraufhin mit einem Burleske-Kostüm und vollzog die Bewegungen ihres Stinktiers schrittweise nach.

Raging Burning love often misjudges the reality of the its objects it of desires. She It projects the necessityies of her its own desire onto a foreign body. This is what happens to sexual partners as well as to pets. The picture series "Dancing with the skunk" is based on the threatening buildings gestures of a skunks. After years of owning ferrets, When Schomburg developed an allergy after years of owning ferrets, she and therefore switched to a pet skunk with a similar body size and shape. Unfortunately, the new pet mainly turned its butt to the artist. mainly with her butt. Both had to separate again. During a nostalgic YouTube search, Schomburg met encountered a number of animal owners who understood the stress-related threat and defensive behaviour of their animals as an amusing and endearing peculiarity. In a performance study, Schomburg then dressed herself in a burlesque costume and gradually followed mimicked the movements of her skunk.

Dancing with the skunk is based on the choreographie a skunk performs before it sprays.

choreography studies

I lived with a petskunk for a couple of weeks. It turned out my skunk was not very happy with me within the constellation. There are many kin of Skunk personalities but my skunk wanted to be a wild one.

Therefore, I had to find a better situation for him.

I missed him so I watched other pet skunks on Youtube. People claimed their skunks played and acted cute. Actually the skunks were performing their threatening dance, feeling as unconfortable as mine did.

The misreading of body language (consciously or unconsciously) is a result of suppressing reality to comfort the own needs. A behavior very common in the dating jungle as well. Projecting the personal wish into a potential significant other is something I watched and experienced many times.

Ann Schomburg Dancing with the Skunk, Choreographiestudien, 2014 Idling Gallery, Markgrafenstraße 56, Berlin

Dancing With The Skunk, Installationview, other shots curated by Lena Reisner

Making off: The Instalation

Time to experiment on the right smell

wie viele stinkbomben...vereint oder in der Nähe....

Slowly very slow the installation is growing.....
mais l'eau de mixture
is not compleated, yet.

Atelieransicht

Don't misread body language....

One Channel version/
Stils

Personal Trainers for improvement,

by chance I found my personal agression trainer

personal agression trainer

if pet skunks could spray,

they would know that they're not playing

additional video shoots followed

video still shooting 01

Dancing with the skunk, take off composition

for a moment I really thought my export program wanted to take more style control....

playerbattle: first round to quicktime....

First choreography test....next shootings will follow

Choreography-exercise test 01 || Dancing with the skunk from societyTrash on Vimeo.

Thanks for showing !! from a feverdream to contemporary illusions...
my mind likes to travel...

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photo exercise: self timer

video shooting 1 camera Sascha Storz

video shooting 2 camera Barbara Hirn , Special Effects Julia Charlotte Richter

installtion experiments over experiments....

photo: BAI

Ann Schomburg: Life imitates Art, the artist as a half solidarity lone

How to be a player, if you do not know the roules in a game that do not exist, oficially? Schomburgs interest is focused on understanding roules of established systhems and playing them in her very own way. With her moving sculpture 'the idling mobile' Schomburg created an ongoing sculpture based on a VW caravan, which turns into an artist in residency program.

The transformative object „Idling Mobile“, is an installation, a sculpture and a mobile artist in residency programm. During events and residency Schomburg is invide tod the“Idlng Mobile“ opens the doors and invites the visitors to engage into conversations and special moments. Situations and performances happen within the space. Visitors are requested to share their personal statements and opinions towards art,life and the vivid interaction between both of the fields. Meanwhile an other artist is invited for a residency as a part of the sculpture.

Ann Schomburg is giving an introduction into her work based on the fascination of the absurd normal routine of the everyday and a passion for multinational meanings and uses.