Sus Zwick
Born 1950 in Fribourg. Lives and works in the Basel region. Member of the Videogenossenschaft Basel. Co-founder of VIA AudioVideoFotoKunst. Video and performance artist as part of a duo with Muda Mathis and in the band Les Reines Prochaines.
00:00 Start. 00:21: Growing up at the language frontier. 01:08: About my grandmother in Berlin. 02:23: It is important, that a woman learns a profession. 03:05: My father was a draughtsman. 03:33: As a child, I was outward-looking. 03:55: I become a teacher and study at the Uni / My first demo. 06:20: We founded a commune in Basel and an alternative kindergarten / Large discrepancies. 11:35: Joining the women’s movement. 12:25: I start to photograph / multimedia shows and women’s calendars. 13:35: 1979 – I become a mother / Foundation of the Videogenossenschaft Basel. 15:37: My relation to video technology. 16:27: My first video – Children or not, for whom to decide? 18:31: 1985 – Admission to the Video Programme by René Pulfer, Art School Basel. 19:37: Our group – Muda Mathis, Pipilotti Rist, Käthe Walser, Sus Zwick, Uri Urech, Renatus Zürcher and Omi Scheidenbauer. 22:58: The rest is a risk / Video on an environmental catastrophe in Schweizerhalle, 1986. 26:04: 1988 – Foundation of the Studio Collective VIA AudioVideoFotoKunst. 27:13: Co-production of a video sampler of the Swiss Association of Independent Video / A period of further experiments. 30:36: Band of female authors «Les Reines Prochaines» and VIA’s work up to today. 32:51: A living from art? 34:31: Credits
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