Heidrun Holzfeind
is an artist working at the intersection of film, photography and sculpture. She is particularly interested in questions of documentation, the social functions of architecture, and alternative ways of living outside of consumer society. She combines extended research with poetic storytelling, exploring the relationship between society and individual identity; individual stories and political narratives.
At the Congress, we will present Heidrun Holzfeind’s work entitled the time is now. (I+II), which consists of two videos about IRO, a Japanese shamanic duo performing improvised music. IRO’s founding couple Shizuko and Toshio Orimo have been working together since 1981. Their music, activist commitment to the pacifist and anti-nuclear movement, as well as their free-flowing lifestyle reflect their beliefs, based on animism and pantheism, and their total rejection of consumption and commercialization of life.
