Julia Lübbecke

Teaser "Slight Discomfort 2" 2021

Slight Discomfort 1-2

Video Lecture Series

2016 - Ongoing

Single-channel HD Stereo

Each video 25 min

Slight Discomfort 1 premiered in the course of the symposium "Hazy Borders Of The Heart" at ACUD Berlin.

Slight Discomfort 2 premiered in the course of the series [Digital] F eminist Present Futures at alpha nova & galerie futura and took part of transmediale and CTM’s Vorspiel.

The desktop as a subjective interface represents the starting point in the ongoing video lecture series „Slight Discomfort“. The means of screen recording is used to reflect the search for and generation of knowledge and narratives. The first part, „Slight Discomfort 1“ (2016/2017), revolves around neoliberal excesses. For example, Ivanka Trumps‘ #womenwhowork are adressed through texts by theorist Angela McRobbie. Unfulfilled promises of the female gaze in the digital space are discussed using the example of so-called selfie-feminism. Returning to this throughout, the second part of the series (2021) focusses on the questions of the so-called bodies to come and the spaces they may enable. Based on Kathy Acker's fascination with fragmenting bodies, McKenzie Wark's analysis of the Cis Gaze or Jack Halberstam's investigations into how the morphology of one's own body determines which spaces we are (allowed to) use, the potential of errors and incongruities is explored. These also shape the editing and visual composition of the lecture. To what extent can such glitches create other places, movements, perspectives in which normative body politics are subverted, denied and unlearned?

Teaser "Slight Discomfort 1" 2017

Still "Slight Discomfort 2" 2021

Still "Slight Discomfort 1" 2016/17

For the installation of "Slight Discomfort 2"
at the exhibition "Tender Points" at Frontviews, Haunt Berlin a site specific curtain has been produced in 2023.

Excerpt "Slight Discomfort 2" 2021