imitation is supposed
to fail


sculpture
in collaboration with
Nathalie Fichtberger, Maria Flörl, Edith Ginz

shown at
Angewandte Festival 2023
Keramik Studio, Vienna 1010, AT
27 - 30 06 23










Questioning able-bodiedness and heterosexuality as unreachable norms of society. there is no 100% able body, from aging to eyesight corrections, the standards imposed on a body are impossible to reach. Same goes for the imposed norm of heteronormative time: mar- riage, kids, house on a timeline. queer time breaks these narratives and lives outside.

Through hands, gestures and translation of these processes between physical and digital representation the artwork is accompanied by a video of the different stages of production and process.

The project was based on texts and research from a seminar and included Robert McRuer’s text about compulsory ablebodiedness and queer/disabled existence, Glissant’s “Transparency and Opacity”, as well as Legacy Russel’s “Glitch Feminism Manifesto”

Project developed during a seminar of Ceramic Studio Angewandte and Genderstudies MA Vienna


“In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym. Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error in a social system that has already been disturbed by economic, racial, social, sexual, and cultural stratification and the imperialist wrecking-ball of globalization—processes that continue to enact violence on all bodies—may not, in fact, be an error at all, but rather a much-needed erratum.”      Legacy Russell (2012) “Digital Dualism And The Glitch Feminism Manifesto”