MOOZ – on moving images and audiovisual arts
It Takes Little
It Takes Little
Karen Zimmermann
2017, HD video, 07:24, sound
2017, HD video, 07:24, sound
Idea: Karen Zimmermann
Camera: Nikolai Meierjohann
Production: Academy of Media Arts / Karen Zimmermann
a woman throws her husband out the window.
a woman is turned into greta garbo.
a woman who shoots at wolves.
a woman is turned into zsa zsa gabor.
a woman is turned into marlene dietrich.
a woman knocks a man’s teeth out.
a woman drags a man by the hair through a bedroom.
a woman who shoots at clay pigeons.
a woman puts on leather gloves.
a woman assembles an AK-47.
a woman tends to a bullet wound.
a woman bites on a piece of wood.
a woman who spills blood.
a woman takes a big sip of whiskey.
a woman tears a white shirt in thin white strips.
a woman throws another man out the window.
a woman calls herself courtney love.
a woman changes a car tire.
a woman tests out a flamethrower.
a woman fills a bullet wound with gunpowder.
a woman cauterizes a wound.
a woman performs the perfect drive.
a woman is killed by a grizzly bear and dragged into the woods.
a woman changes a car tire.
a woman leaves jail clothed only in her underwear.
a woman smashes a tennis racket.
a woman smashes another tennis racket.
a woman swears at a referee.
a woman crushes the head of a child with her bare hands.
a woman wrecks a car.
a woman smashes in a bathroom door with an ax.
a woman shouts: “be gone, satan, be gone.”
a woman reads misery by stephen king.
a woman wrecks a ferrari.
a woman jumps out the window.
a woman jumps into the canal.
a woman swims out into the open sea.
a woman strangles a leopard with her bare hands.
a woman sharpens a knife.
a woman forges a sword.
a woman slays a dragon.
a woman pushes a man against the wall.
a woman with bad breath.
a woman with silver teeth.
a woman who draws a revolver.
a woman who wrecks a racing car.
a woman who shoots indiscriminately.
a woman who goes into a betting shop.
a woman who reads karl marx.
a heavily armed woman.
a blind woman with boils.
a woman throws a suitcase down the stairwell.
an unwashed woman.
a crippled woman.
a woman with crutches.
a woman who saws through the bars.
a woman with a cowboy hat.
a woman who bites the head off a chick.
a woman who bites the head off a bat.
a woman who sprouts from the ground.
a woman who dunks a man in dishwashing liquid.
a woman kills a grizzly with a large knife.
a woman is shot with an arrow.
a deaf-mute woman plays piano on the beach.
a woman locks a man in the basement.
a woman shackles a man to a chair.
a woman hits a man with a dead fish.
a woman takes a drag on a joint.
a woman throws dishes out the window.
a woman snorts a line of speed.
a woman who sells cocaine.
a woman who shoots up.
a woman who jumps into the ocean.
a woman rides a wave.
a woman breaks out of jail.
a woman watches mustangs on the prairie.
a woman chases mustangs.
a woman who catches a mustang with a lasso.
a woman breaks a wild mustang.
a woman grooms a mustang.
a woman stands in the rain.
a woman spits.
a woman wipes her mouth with her hand.
a woman who knocks her teeth out.
a woman who shoots herself in the head.
a woman who drills a hole in her knee.
a woman who jumps from a bridge.
a woman who drives into a tree.
a woman who digs a hole.
a woman who hides a body.
a woman who washes her face.
a woman who looks in the mirror.
a woman who washes her hands.
a woman drags a man by the hair out of the picture.
a woman dunks a man in dishwashing liquid.
a woman in a white apron.
“it takes little.”
terrific title
Text — Tobias Yves Zintel
Karen Zimmermann has studied in the postgraduate program at the Academy of Media Arts since September 2016, with a focus on video art and performance. Since 2017 she has been a part of the performance collective You Are, and together they have been invited to the Videonale, Bonn; Schaustellen!, Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature, Münster; and the Ruhrtriennale, Bochum. Supported by a work scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW she worked and gave a workshop during a two-week stay in Athens. Her thesis work, which is supervised by Phil Collins, Lilian Haberer, and Tobias Yves Zintel, will be shown in January.
© Karen Zimmermann
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