REGINA HÜBNER
Artist.
Interdisciplinary projects and collaborations with personalities from the visual arts, literature, music, science and special key figures, the so-called Protagonists. Regina Hübner creates “Ambientations” with videos, objects, performative or participatory acts and the given context and uses experimental photography, video, performance, subjects and objects, text, sound, environment; concept, dialogue, symposia. Recent solo-shows include Austrian Cultural Forum Rome (2023), KAUNAS European Capital of Contemporary Art (2022), VIDEOFORMES Hybrid and Digital Arts (2021), MANIFESTA 13 Les Parallèles du Sud (2020), Dinzlschloss Villach (2019), Nuit Blanche Paris (2018), MMKK Klagenfurt (2016), and participations at worldwide festivals.
Regina Hübner / © Martina Villiger
“We are also what we are not. ”
DEAR CELL
The project Perception of Self and Nonself in Life is about the perception of being in accordance with the basic principle of immunology, which distinguishes system affiliation. The researcher/researched object relationship is reversed and viewed from both sides. The contributions of 17 researchers from the Institute of Modern Immunology CIML form the artwork Dear Cell. Shortly after completion, the pandemic emerged and a vaccine was developed within a very short time. The project seemed like the new reality, where the individual recognises him/herself as part of the whole and hope for empathy and togetherness is justified.
KISSING
Crystal plate, milk, water.
EVE AND EVE
Empathy is the theme of the project We are also what we are not. However, it coincides with a war that is close to us, because the generation that would never have wanted to fight the previous one is still alive. So what happens to empathy when we are faced with a decision that means life or death and when "self" and "not-self" become alternatives? What will we do with our capabilities while another conflict breaks out? Eve and Eve (2022) shows what we are able to do: Create and Destroy.
“Empathy and variable realities. Communication occurs when identification happens.”
