While the walls come tumbling down by Maria Mayland
Otters Holding Hands - curated by Ambra Viviani
A Strange New Kind of Inbetween Thing, episode 2
Co-production: Lumpen Station, Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne, Giulietta
This project is part of Community Building, supported by FSRC, SWISSPERFORM, Pro Helvetia and Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden
For the past year, I have been recording conversations with other trans artists and writers through an Internet platform in preparation for a film project. In this audio piece, authors Maxi Wallenhorst and Kuku Schrapnell talk about the complex relation between work and identity, and the cis gaze framing it. "Field" recordings from my day-to-day life protrude.
About the artist :
Maria Mayland (*1988) is a visual artist and filmmaker. She obtained her MFA from Basel’s Art Institute, taught by Chus Martínez, and took part in KKH Stockholm's postgraduate program Philosophy in the Context of Art, taught by Peter Osborne.
Her short film works have been shown in various contexts across Europe. Screenings include International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, IDFA Amsterdam, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, transmediale, Edinburgh Film Festival and Sharjah Film Platform.
She won the German Short Film Award in 2022, the EMAF-Media Art Award of the German film critics association (VdFK) in 2021, and the 3sat Emerging Talent Prize at Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2024.
