Tanita Olbrich's work uncovers power structures through narration.
Tanita Olbrich is an artist and filmmaker. She studied at HFBK Hamburg, with Angela Schanelec and Jeanne Faust, as well as the San Francisco Art Institute. Her video installations and films deal with processes of truth production and surveillance technologies. In her work, she analyzes images of security technologies, treating them as both producers and expressions of power systems. Using voice over, text or humor she criticizes these systems and conjures new perspectives on ways of perceiving them.
Ring
HD Video / 09:00 min / 2023
00:33 min excerpt
A woman monitors herself in empty rooms. She produces evidence: on her apartment, her work, German lovers, pieces of furniture, the imagination, the Internet, her everyday life and CCTV. The video files of this film are stored on the servers of the surveillance camera system with which they were shot.
(Steve) Temple
HD Video / 06:00 min / 2021
00:56 min excerpt
The industrial landscape is, similar to a landscape painting, an ideal landscape. In (Steve) Temple the west german ruhr-area appears as an anarchistic space, where people live in spontaneity and cooperation, free of hierarchies.