Video Work: gestern, hier, morgen (yesterday, here, tomorrow) - 2019 

The following video creation "gestern, hier, morgen", in collaboration with Vancouver-based inter-disciplinary artist Andreas Kahre and digital media specialist Derek Tan, is a tribute to the multi-faceted human being Rosa Luxemburg was as a human rights activist, peace activist and even botanist. 

Derek Tan: editor of video files I documented during walks on forest trails and a boat ride on the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, where Rosa Luxemburg found her tragic death, through assassination, on the 15th of January 1919. In synchronicity with Andreas Kahre's soundtrack, Derek also created the design of fonts in the video's script.

Andreas Kahre: compositions of layered sounds from various sources, including recorded spoken voices commenting on Rosa Luxemburg's political activism, which contrast her interest in botany and zoology. Readings from Rosa's letters, as well as poetic and musical contributions were also recorded for this project.

In the process of this video-creation, I gave importance to remembering and celebrating lesser known aspects of Rosa Luxemburg. As her letters written from prison cells reveal, Rosa was profoundly touched by even the tiniest encounters with nature. I therefor wish for the voices of nature she may have heard, to still resonate in concordia, "with (one) heart", with that of speaking and listening humans today. 
 
My gratitude goes to all contributors, including the ones I have not named here.
 
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Video work: Proverbial Botany – 2016

"Proverbial Botany" is a further collaboration with Andreas Kahre and Derek Tan. With it, I attempt to integrate my experience as an ESL teacher at MOSAIC and to create opportunity for outreach into Vancouver's community of "new Canadians"; providing, at the same time, a space of 'inclusion'  for adult ESL students to participate in contemporary art-culture. It offered ESL learners a different kind of meaningful local language-based  learning  experience.

My heartfelt thanks and appreciation still goes to the 20 ESL students from diverse cultural backgrounds, who agreed to participate in having their "proverbial botany" knowledge recorded for this project. 
 
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