Knowledge expressed through various art forms offers an opportunity to expose the fault lines of traditional epistemologies, which makes artistic research increasingly urgent, especially because of the political potential it offers. It provides a framework to explore and interrogate what constitutes knowledge, for whom that knowledge feels relevant, and how its expressive forms as art circulates in society and can bridge epistemological divides.
How images world us and how the world is increasingly communicated in images is central to how we connect to each other as humans. Images, on the surface at least, perform the indexicality of human emotions, through the characters that we identify with and, through the stories that we connect to on account of universe themes.
In this reflective contribution, Barbara Albert offers an overview of seminal moments in her career and connects some events and influences that drew her to particular subjects and the stories explored in her films.
Barbara Albert : I concentrate on the physical, on bodies in space and their framing in which I try to touch a metaphysics.
I am most fascinated by the bodies and faces and how to frame their form. Jyoti : Your first feature film, Nordrand from , left a deep impression on me. The very intimate struggles of working-class women in Vienna has a rawness that shatters a lot of the preconceptions about women and their bodies by how you frame and show their bodies in the story you tell.
