humor and research
Engaging in moving image production, writing, archiving, research and teaching, Laura Nitsch is interested in the connections between desire and economy, work and friendship, property and education, class struggles and collectivity. She is working with queer production practices, archives of the working classes, marginalized and resistant narratives and critical fabulation (Saidiya Hartman) responding to the limits of official archives and narratives.
Nitsch has been shown in cinemas, galleries and institutions including Diagonale Graz, mumok cinema Vienna, NGBK Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Xhibit Vienna, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Blickle Kino Belvedere 21, Vienna and online. She was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Zurich University of the Arts. Together with İpek Hamzaoğlu she is co-founder of Hekate Film Collective.
Violett
HD Video / 29:00 min / 2023
09:26 min excerpt
Violett examines the layered repressions queer/lesbian Viennese workers faced in public spaces following the introduction of the "Vagabond Law" (1885). A cruising through various materials and times uncovers the complex intersections of poverty and queerness in public space. Fact and fiction blend as archival fragments, animation, sound, and performance converge into a hybrid counter-narrative of resistance.