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		balance A video by Ruth Kaaserer. German with English subtitles, 28 min. 2000 balance focuses on Ewa, Magda and Andrea, the daughters of immigrants who talk about growing up, their friendship and their plans for independence. These scenes are juxtaposed with clips in which the girls perform their own hip-hop numbers for the camera and shots of other teenagers roller-skating, playing baseball, strolling or talking; Edited to create a rhythmic and lively combination of documentary, feature film and art video, balance shows a process of speaking and performing between one's own identity and the identity assigned by others, everyday life and performance, contemporary youth culture and the desire to create space for feminist ideas and the views of immigrants to develop. (Rike Frank) Ruth Kaaserer was born in 1972, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work focuses on young women in their everyday environment. She has shown her work at Kunsthalle Exnergasse/Vienna ("Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome" 1996), Kunsthalle Vienna ("Lebt und arbeitet in Wien" 2000), Steirischer Herbst/Graz ("hers-video as a female terrain" 2000), Shedhalle Frauenfeld/Switzerland ("Es lebe der Sport" 2000), Etsdorf ("Zweite Runde" 2001), Parapluefabriek/Amsterdam ("Winterkabinet" 2001), Bialystok/Poland ("Get out!" 2001), Ehemaliges Tüchler-Fabriksgebäude/Vienna ("Langweilige Geschichten Ÿber den Alltag" 2002), Kunstraum München/Munic ("talk of the town" 2002). Festival screenings include Videonale/Bonn, Diagonale 2001/Graz, Filmcasino/Vienna, Festival de lÕimage en mouvement 2002/Geneva. She is a co-founder of imo collecting television.	select an artist Ursula Biemann Songül Boyraz/Peter Höll > view Loulou Cherinet Pier Paolo Coro Gustav Deutsch/Mostafa Tabbou Dias & Riedweg drive-by-shooting/tallstoreez productionz Rainer Ganahl Heidrun Holzfeind > view Ruth Kaaserer KanalB Kinga Kielczynska Klub Zwei Jeroen Kooijmans Micah Magee Tanja Nelleman Poulsen Diane Nerwen Jenny Perlin Marco Poloni > view Lisl Ponger Walid Ra'ad Goran Radovanovic Oliver Ressler/Martin Krenn Alex Rivera > view Andrea Staka Hito Steyerl Susanne Winterling Sislej Xhafa
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		balance A video by Ruth Kaaserer. German with English subtitles, 28 min. 2000 balance focuses on Ewa, Magda and Andrea, the daughters of immigrants who talk about growing up, their friendship and their plans for independence. These scenes are juxtaposed with clips in which the girls perform their own hip-hop numbers for the camera and shots of other teenagers roller-skating, playing baseball, strolling or talking; Edited to create a rhythmic and lively combination of documentary, feature film and art video, balance shows a process of speaking and performing between one's own identity and the identity assigned by others, everyday life and performance, contemporary youth culture and the desire to create space for feminist ideas and the views of immigrants to develop. (Rike Frank) Ruth Kaaserer was born in 1972, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her work focuses on young women in their everyday environment. She has shown her work at Kunsthalle Exnergasse/Vienna ("Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome" 1996), Kunsthalle Vienna ("Lebt und arbeitet in Wien" 2000), Steirischer Herbst/Graz ("hers-video as a female terrain" 2000), Shedhalle Frauenfeld/Switzerland ("Es lebe der Sport" 2000), Etsdorf ("Zweite Runde" 2001), Parapluefabriek/Amsterdam ("Winterkabinet" 2001), Bialystok/Poland ("Get out!" 2001), Ehemaliges Tüchler-Fabriksgebäude/Vienna ("Langweilige Geschichten Ÿber den Alltag" 2002), Kunstraum München/Munic ("talk of the town" 2002). Festival screenings include Videonale/Bonn, Diagonale 2001/Graz, Filmcasino/Vienna, Festival de lÕimage en mouvement 2002/Geneva. She is a co-founder of imo collecting television.	select an artist Ursula Biemann Songül Boyraz/Peter Höll > view Loulou Cherinet Pier Paolo Coro Gustav Deutsch/Mostafa Tabbou Dias & Riedweg drive-by-shooting/tallstoreez productionz Rainer Ganahl Heidrun Holzfeind > view Ruth Kaaserer KanalB Kinga Kielczynska Klub Zwei Jeroen Kooijmans Micah Magee Tanja Nelleman Poulsen Diane Nerwen Jenny Perlin Marco Poloni > view Lisl Ponger Walid Ra'ad Goran Radovanovic Oliver Ressler/Martin Krenn Alex Rivera > view Andrea Staka Hito Steyerl Susanne Winterling Sislej Xhafa
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