Half of the Sky (2020)

With THE GOLDEN PIXEL COOPERATIVE

4K, 12 min,1,78:1, stereo, German with English subtitles

Keywords: kite festivals Bauhaus Weimar, queer-feminist role models, appropriation, public space, parade, collective storytelling

Created within the framework of the exhibition When Gesture Becomes Event / Ko gesta postane dogodek / Wenn die Geste zum Ereignis wird, December 8, 2020 – April 7, 2021, Production: City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana & Künstlerhaus Wien, Exhibition curators: Alenka Gregorič & Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

Stills

The Golden Pixel Cooperative, film still from “Half of the Sky”, 2020 @Bildrecht, Vienna 2024.

Description

The Golden Pixel Cooperative developed its first jointly realized short film, Half of the Sky, for the exhibition “When Gesture Becomes Event“ (2020–21) at Künstlerhaus Wien. In this work, the cooperative revisits the kite festivals of the Weimar Bauhaus—festive parades for which kites had been designed as art objects and flying machines since the 1920s. In its homage to the often-overlooked female artists of the Bauhaus, the Golden Pixel Cooperative presents its own interpretation of the Bauhaus’s ideal of integrating art and life. The kites in the short film are dedicated to queer-feminist role models: philosophers, activists, writers, and artists. These kites emerged from a collaborative dialogue between the cooperative's artists and collaborators from various fields. The project fostered a collective reflection on feminist role models and emancipatory practices.

Concept & Realization: Iris Blauensteiner, Dorottya Csécsei, Faika El-Nagashi, Anna Haidegger, Nathalie Koger, Lee Nevo, Luiza Margan, Christiana Perschon, Elena Peytchinska, Marlies Pöschl, Steffi Rauchwarter, Frida Robles, Simona Obholzer, Mona Schwitzer, Miae Son, Katharina Swoboda, Alexandra Tatar, Lisa Truttmann, Seda Tunç