29/06/2024, 3:30 pm,

Talk with Silke Schönfeld, Lola Fuchs and Theresa Maria Hager

, Kreativ-Haus

As part of FLURSTÜCKE 2024, the artist Silke Schönfeld will give insights into her latest video works in an artist talk with Lola Fuchs and Theresa Maria Hager.

The #MeToo movement and the recent revelations about abusive working conditions on film sets and in theatres form the starting point for Silke Schönfeld's newly produced film No More Butter Scenes (2024). They illustrate how topical the subject is and how complex, as the credibility of the actors concerned is repeatedly called into question. If only because it is their profession to portray feelings. No More Butter Scenes illustrates the psychological complexity of structural abuse of power. In the form of a chamber play with Lola Fuchs and Mervan Ürkmez in the leading roles, the setting is based on the kind of PR interviews actors give to promote blockbusters. A genre all of its own that thrives on the tension between screen fiction and the stars' self-staging as (supposedly) private individuals.

Silke Schönfeld (born 1988) studied fine art at the art academies of Münster and Düsseldorf. From 2020–2022 she was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Her works include the documentary short film entitled Ich darf sie immer alles fragen, which addresses an intimate, transgenerational trauma and constitutes the prologue to a long-term autobiographical project. In 2023, Ich darf sie immer alles fragen was awarded the prize of the NRW competition of the Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the Deutsche Kurzfilmpreis (German Short Film Prize). For Ruhr Ding: Klima, she realized the three-part video installation Family Business. Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous art exhibitions and at film festivals, including the Goethe-Institut, Paris, CAN Foundation, Seoul, Garage Rotterdam, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica. In weaving together personal stories with historical and social structures, she immerses herself into specific contexts and confronts her own prejudices. As a participatory observer, she focuses on people, be they individual protagonists or social groups. By following them, she documents memories, rituals, ideologies and processes of identity formation.

A joint project with Filmwerkstatt Münster in the context of the International Festival for Dance, Theatre, Performance and Film FLURSTÜCKE 2024.