Jo Brummack about her work:

The video and sound installation Tangible Intangible centers vulnerability and sensuality as conditions of life. At the same time, social power structures such as species, race, gender and disability, which determine the vulnerability of living beings, are addressed. For this work I interviewed people from my environment and accompanied them with camera and sound recorder. Among them was my mother, who is a trauma therapist. Andrea Brummack works with the Touch Trains method, which appeals to the sense of touch. The setting: a flat wooden box filled with clay. The hands tactilely move over the field. Then the fingers become alive, they press themselves into the material, they begin to explore and form. Nothing in particular has to emerge – it‘s not about the result, but about the practice.

The images, which move in a gentle rhythm across three screens, can also be described as tactile and organic. Interview scenes, documentary footage of therapy sessions, distorted close-ups of touching, and text passages result in a narrative about vulnerability and trauma as states from which to act, as opposed to something to merely overcome. In combination with the soundscape composed by Cat Woywod especially for Tangible Intangible, a multisensory overall composition is created.

The cushions invite people to sit and linger, increasing the possibility for listening and watching actively and with empathy. Particular video sequences were selected as fabric motifs to translate the visual language of the video into the three-dimensional space where visitors can immerse themselves in.

Tangible Intangible was fundet by the HAB Abschlussförderung Hessen.