Verena Hahn

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"We´ll have time for that later" captures the practice of three preppers, and deals with the question who is entitled to speak or to lead. https://www.nieuwevide.nl/programma/verena-hahn

We´ll have time for that later , 2020
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Password: window "Through your window I can see my house" is a research on identitarian self defense. The audio piece features interviews with preppers, conspiracy theorists, fundamental Christians and neighborhood watch guards. It is likewise a reflection on my own journalistic approach, and asks: where is the line between empathy, neutrality and normalisation of violence?

Through your window I can see my house., 2019
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Still of the work-in-progress film "We´ll have time for that later"

We´ll have time for that later, 2019
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Still of the work-in-progress film "We´ll have time for that later"

We´ll have time for that later, 2019
Film
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Still of the work-in-progress film "We´ll have time for that later"

We´ll have time for that later, 2019
Film
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Still of the work-in-progress film "We´ll have time for that later"

We´ll have time for that later, 2019
Film
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"Through your window I can see my house" is a research on identitarian self defense. The audio piece features interviews with preppers, conspiracy theorists, fundamental Christians and neighborhood watch guards. It is likewise a reflection on my own journalistic approach, and asks: where is the line between empathy, neutrality and normalisation of violence?

Through your window I can see my house, 2019
Audio piece, wood, screen printed fabrics impregnated with bee wax, Audio piece: 33 min, Installation: 200x150x150cm
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"Through your window I can see my house" is a research on identitarian self defense. The audio piece features interviews with preppers, conspiracy theorists, fundamental Christians and neighborhood watch guards. It is likewise a reflection on my own journalistic approach, and asks: where is the line between empathy, neutrality and normalisation of violence?

Through your window I can see my house, 2019
Audio piece, wood, screen printed fabrics impregnated with bee wax, Audio piece: 33 min, Installation: 200x150x150cm
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"Through your window I can see my house" is a research on identitarian self defense. The audio piece features interviews with preppers, conspiracy theorists, fundamental Christians and neighborhood watch guards. It is likewise a reflection on my own journalistic approach, and asks: where is the line between empathy, neutrality and normalisation of violence?

Through your window I can see my house, 2019
Audio piece, wood, screen printed fabrics impregnated with bee wax, Audio piece: 33 min, Installation: 200x150x150cm
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"In her video, How Much Do Basic Needs Cost? Verena Hahn interviews two recipients of the German ‘Hartz IV’ benefit programme, who are coping with the challenges of life on a low income. Rather than solely addressing economic discrimination, Hahn prefers to present the interviewees Jan Burda and Jennifer Kölber as role models with positive views on life, even if they are severely limited by minimal financial means. She consciously decides to meet them in their own surroundings, making the specifics of their lives more relatable." (From onlineopen.org)

How much cost basic needs?, 2018
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"We´ll have time for that later" captures the practice of three preppers, and deals with the question who is entitled to speak or to lead. https://www.nieuwevide.nl/programma/verena-hahn

We´ll have time for that later
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"We´ll have time for that later" captures the practice of three preppers, and deals with the question who is entitled to speak or to lead. https://www.nieuwevide.nl/programma/verena-hahn

We´ll have time for that later

A practice of listening and following as a counter method against shaming, splaining, patronizing, ignoring, and physical and non-physical violence

My recent practice has been engaged with social zones in which communication has been cancelled or at least has become difficult. I am thinking of zones in which one side claims that freedom of speech has been taken away from them, whereas the other side marks whom should be talked and listened to, and whom not. I am interested in filmic documentation and the act of filming itself in order to access these spaces. In the film "We´ll have time for that later" which I´m currently working on, I am experimenting with taking and giving up lead in order to document three prepper´s self and world perception. By following their directions, their concept of me becomes visible and readable in the way my body moves in the frame of the camera. The film also sounds out, how holding the camera can be entitling and disabling at the same time. Whereas I see my earlier film "How much cost basic needs?" as a more conventional documentarist approach, my ongoing prepper investigation rather enacts an encounter that would not take place outside of the film. Holding the camera or being in front of it becomes my way of listening to accounts I did not know before, of overstepping the frames they build for me, of misfitting camouflaged backgrounds, of following directions that I usually carefully avoid. The physical act of moving into personal spaces is a counter approach to the mere verbal exchanges that regularly take place in online comment sections, in which divisioning lines are easily drawn and assaults easily made.

Social media

instagram.com/verenhah/

Curriculum vitae

Education

2019 - 2019

Collective Conditions Worksession Constant Brussels
2016 - 2019

Graphic Design Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma

exhibitions

2020

We´ll have time for that later Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden Film and installation "We´ll have time for that later", represented by Nieuwe Vide Haarlem at Supermarket Art Fair www.nieuwevide.nl/programma/verena-hahn Group
2019

Palastrauschen Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany "I just called", an archival audio piece about the act of calling. Together with Elisa Kühnl. Presented at "Palastrauschen", a platform for young artists Group
2018

Models for Humanity. The 50th anniversary of Amnesty International Netherlands Theater Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands Presentation of the work "Who is in the war room?" (with Nina van Tuikwerd), presented within a collaboration between Royal Academy of the Arts and Amnesty International Group
2018

Well::ness bad::ass Orga Orga Mainz, Germany Lecture Performance "Epic Fail Compilation" on the connotational shift of failing in German unemployment politics and Silicon Valley Group

Projects

2019
We´ll have time for that later Nieuwe Vide Den Haag / Germany, Netherlands vimeo.com/432423957 "We´ll have time for that later" explores the present and future concepts of preppers. In the video work strategies of submitting, following, questioning and overstepping are used in order to access multiply sealed spaces.

International exchanges/Residencies

2019

Constant Brussels Collective Conditions Worksession, Belgium From the call for participants: "By ’complex collectivity’ we mean, for example, non-normative human constellations, or collectives where participants with radically different needs, backgrounds and agencies come together. ’Complex collectivity’ can be self-chosen, or be the result of structural forces such as laws, racism, technology, wars, austerity, queerphobia and ecological conditions."

Commissions

2020

We´ll have time for that later Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, Netherlands "We´ll have time for that later" explores the present and future concepts of preppers. In the video work strategies of submitting, following, questioning and overstepping are used in order to access multiply sealed spaces. Work will be presented in April 2020 at Supermarket Art Fair. www.nieuwevide.nl/programma/verena-hahn

Awards and grants

2019

We´ll have time for that later. Kunstproject Subsidy, Stroom, The Hague, NL Den Haag, Netherlands Stroom Funding for the production of the film "We´ll have time for that later."
2019

We´ll have time for that later Nieuwe Vide, Mondriaan Funds Haarlem, Netherlands Funding for the production of "We´ll have time for that later"
2016

Deutschlandstipendium Deutschlandstipendium Essen, Germany One year fellowship for outstanding students.

Secondary art-related activities

2019 - 2019

Bodies Wide Open - Instructor of a movement class
2018 - 2018

Curator and organiser of a drone concert in Cologne