Contragic Fine Arts | Ann Schomburg

23.10.15

Dancing with the skunk


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



Dancing With The Skunk (2013)

 

Materialangabe:

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

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 

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....