As part of the exhibition Flurfunker:innen by Katrin Mayer, there will be a reading with Sophia Eisenhut (author and artist, Vienna) from her recently published book EXERCITIA S. Catarinae de Manresa, Anorexie und Gottesstaatlichkeit
(Merve Verlag 2021), followed by a talk with Márcia Elisa Moser (gender
and religious studies scientist and consultant for critical diversity
and anti-discrimination work, Frankfurt am Main).
When Katrin Mayer began researching for her exhibition Flurfunker:innen
in the former cloister of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the first book she
picked up was by Caroline Walker Bynum, which Márcia Elisa Moser had
once given her for her birthday: Fragmentation and Redemption: Gender and Body in Medieval Beliefs.
In it she read, for example, how Saint Catherina of Siena appeared in a
vision as a bearded woman and was thus mistaken for Christ. In
addition, Katrin Mayer was in an exchange with Sophia Eisenhut during
this time as part of her project for the Berlin funding programme
Artistic Research. In her book, Sophia Eisenhut created a fictitious,
polyphonic clergywoman, Catarinae of Manresa, whose physicality was also
in change. Towards the end of the exhibition’s run, we will travel
together back to the beginning of the research and continue writing
possible feminist narratives of an Kunsthalle that was once a convent.
You can watch the reading here as a stream on the YouTube channel of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.
Kindly supported by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft
und Kultur, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stiftung der Sparkasse Osnabrück,
Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung/gkfd and
Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
