not ur fetish
(what happened to ur voice?)

2023
10m18s loop
Performance / Concept: Elin Laut
Kamera / Light / Nails: Mattia Friso
Slime Coordination: Fiona Balzer
Sound Design: Julian Lautenbacher

Exhibited at
CASINO REAL 777 @ Alexanderplatz (by adrenalin collective)
USC Slime Wrestling Fest @ Karstadt Neukölln (dykon1c x heartqore)

The video work centres the trans body as a surface of projection. Drawing upon the iconography of the mermaid as an inherently non-binary entity, the performance explores themes of disgust, objectification, rebirth, and metamorphosis.





QUEER BODIES

2022
5m 18s
Collab w/ Mattia Friso
Performing: Teo Pyritidis, Tin Wang, Sarah Seini, Michl Best


Exhibited at
Körper & Stoffe @ UdK Medienhaus, Berlin
Bewegtbildklasse @ UdK Rundgang 2022, Berlin
queering ~ costume @ Sonntagsclub, Berlin
(s)exhibition @ Zeitgeist Zentrum, Berlin



Queer Bodies is a three chapters video installation that explores the process of embracing queer identity: From the death of the former self, to the searching for agency, to the creation of a community. The viewer is drawn into a reality where subjects tell about themselves and bodies manifest themselves in an unconventional way.







DAISY

2021
15m 50s
Costume, Performance, Videography
Camera, Sound design: Julian Lautenbacher
Music: Shygirl, Bernadette Carrol 

Featured by Eigenart Magazine

Inspired by Eugène Ionescos “Rhinocéros”, the performance piece DAISY questions the possibility of emancipation within a patriarchal system. Playing with the viewer’s individual associaton-pool through mass media and pop-culture references, the piece explores the role of the male gaze and in the construction of femininity, whiteness, identity and gender.







JA, ICH BIN EIN MANN
(”Auto” by Klitclique)

2020
3m 11s
Costume, Performance, Videography
Music: Klitclique
Performing: Sarah-Elise Ali-Ben-Ali, Felix Kusser, Elin Laut
Camera: Julian Lautenbacher, Tristan Hedges
Filmed on a mini-DV tape recorder. 

Screened at
Favourites Film Festival @ City Kino Wedding, Berlin

Exploring toxic masculinity and masculinity as performance in public spaces. The costume mixes my own wardrobe and the wardrobe of cis-male friends and family.





Nachtschattengewächse

2020
2m 27s
Videography 
Sound: Becker / Stegmann / Zeumer (Music From Memory)

Featured by Slippage Magazine

"Nachtschattengewächse” explores the possibility of a new masculinity. Playing with detached perspectives in an artificial environment, the piece questions the logic of characteristics typically ascribed to human bodies read as cis-male.








QUEEN

2018
9m 18s

Video performance with wearable sculpture
Collab w/ Viktoria Posavec
Performing: Polina Shpazhnikova

Exploring the duality of the private body and the body of power, based on the Armada Portrait of queen Elizabeth I.