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✮*•̩̩͙✧•̩̩͙*˚✧*˚ 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 ˚*✧˚*•̩̩͙✧•̩̩͙*˚✮




2024

full room installation

in collaboration with 
Lea Neckel

commissioned by Kulturbetriebe Burgenland

and exhibited at 
Landesgalerie Burgenland

“✮*•̩̩͙✧•̩̩͙*˚✧*˚ floating through reality ˚*✧˚*•̩̩͙✧•̩̩͙*˚✮”
Landesgalerie Burgenland
Eisenstadt, AT 


press


Since its creation, Eisenstadt Castle Park has combined nature and technical progress as a mirror to the world in a paradisiacal form. The Herzerlteich pond, romantically hidden in the park, is at the center of the exhibition ✮*-̩̩͙✧-̩̩͙*˚✧*˚ floating through reality ˚*✧˚*-̩̩͙✧-̩̩͙*˚✮, as a symbol of the symbiosis of technology and nature, man and progress.
The water of the future flows through the changing installation. In this way, Hannah and Lea Neckel create a space that makes it possible to dream present-day utopias and generate new realities.


Through the lens of hydrofeminism, they show how water connects people as a universal element, reflecting the role of the internet as a modern parallel of this force.

𝓲 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓲𝓽 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼





We need to be able to imagine -  to make it real.
In online queer spaces, imagination runs free, directly from the source, where marginalized identities find refuge, exploring and connecting underneath the waves. Taking on avatars, the personal becomes abstracted in the virtual. Liberated from fears of repercussion and stigmatisation, exploration flows freely, uncovering what is hidden behind the surface. I reach out my hand towards you, breaking the tension, as the water rushes over us, uniting our bodies, just like our hearts have been united online <3



The feeling is too big,

the video is f
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                                    w
                                          i
                                             n
                                                   g

out of the screen, it can not be contained anymore,

my words are floating on the stream towards

you .｡.:*♡


eroding whatever stands in our way, the boundaries have melted away, its our reality.....˚ *•̩̩͙ ✩.



𝒃𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍
𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔




exhibited at and commissioned by OOEK

Linz (AT): OK Linz Center for Contemporary Art
solo position in collaboration with Lea Neckel

curated by Maria Venzl & Alfred Weidinger



Based on the longing for liberation and community, they develop emotional exxxperiences based on the utopian potential of the internet.

In their work "˚₊‧。☆･ﾟ: *𓆩♡𓆪･ﾟ:* beyond the waterfall *:ﾟ𓆩♡𓆪 *:ﾟ･☆。‧₊˚lost in the stream of consciousness" the concept of fluidity is explored to the fore and break through the conventional notions of binary. The installation symbolizes binary in two spaces, connected and dissolved by the waterfall. The focus is on emphasizing community at all levels and using the potential of technology to transcend physical limitations and generate a new vision of the future in the collective consciousness.


Utilizing femme and queer signifiers and referring to Haraway's cyborg manifesto, the internet is rematerialized and presented as a refuge for marginalized groups, especially the queer community. By deconstructing the boundaries between human and machine, gender binaries, self and other, liberation cannot be confined to the patriarchal framework of gender. Complex humanity and gender are intangible and multifaceted, and technological advances continue to transcend traditional gender boundaries.

To truly transcend these limitations in our thinking and discourse, we must open ourselves to new ways of conceptualizing and understanding the physical space of gender.

The rooms of the OK become an extended virtual reality, immersed in the aesthetics of the digital subculture, it spills into the room as if it has sprung from a source, overflows and overlaps, merging with the environment like the layers of a Photoshop file.

𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧



the video is
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                            l

                                 o

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                                           i

                                               n

                                                     g

                                                            through me
                                       melting my body, merging it with yours

come closer ‧͙⁺˚*•̩̩͙♡







Floating on the eternal stream, drowning in the feelings

going with the flow is not easy, you need to let yourself be taken by the stream, it will guide you there

i’m reaching out to for your hand through the screen

can we touch?

can we break through the (surface) tension

floating on the water, drifting away, reaching out for your hand, your gaze



The work is contemplating on the utopian promise of connection on the internet and the intrinsic longing for community and romance. As a sanctuary for queer communities, intimacy for marginalised people is possible online. Anonymity can offer exploration, a free flow of desire. The poem guides through the stream of the video, as the character ruminates on the analogy between the endless streams of the internet and water, being taken by the current, which will leading to our desire. As the water is uniting, dissolving the boundaries and filling the gaps between us, we become one in the ooze.


ruminating                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                 releasing



revirtualizing
drowning in reality


collaboration with Lea Neckel

exhibited at:
Vienna (AT): Parallel 2022
supported by Kulturland Burgenland


Based on the cyber-aesthetic of hyper-femme online spaces and their users, this immersive installation reflects the extravagant opulence of utopian visions of the future. A fountain as a sculptural focal point is surrounded by accompanying besties and bathed in luminous pink light, which is reflected in and scattered throughout the sculpture's iridescent material.
Merging the virtual into the physical, this installation offers an emotional XXXperience as a call to possible utopian visions of the future and shows Space as a community-creating impetus. Revirtualizing - drowning in reality translates the phenomenon of digitalization and the quest forbalance between real and virtual spaces into an Emotional Experience.
The formal language of the work corresponds to the digital aesthetics of the Internet and highlights its hyper-femme opulent aspects. The dialogue about digital future design is often exclusively male - in contrast, a fem-queer positions generated, leading online as well as offline reality towards a feminist future. Marginalised groups often use online spaces as a retreat and meeting place for their communities.
revirtualizing - drowning in reality aims to give visibility to these communities, and offer the possibility to translate these online spaces into a physical place in which offline coming together and connecting becomes possible. The eternal flow of water in the fountain mirrors the seemingly perpetual flow of the internet. The state of time is completely dissolved and the illusion of a fixed reality is broken. The current actual state is replaced by a positivistic internet utopia.