Sie puppt mit Puppen / She dolls with dollies

Synopsis

The video work Sie puppt mit Puppen/ She dolls with Dollies was created as a visual interpretation of the piece by vocalist, singer, and composer Anna Clementi and sound researcher, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Stern. Their album "DOPPELMOPPEL - Poems by Kurt Schwitters", capturing the spirit of Schwitters' "Merz-Gesamtweltbild", will be released in September 2024 by Corvo Records/Berlin. Fascinated by the poetry of the famous German MERZ/DADA artist Kurt Schwitters, the duo began a decades-long artistic exploration and intensive collaboration. They transformed Schwitters' poems into contemporary electronic sounds, from poetry readings to unconventional melodies and experimental sound-poetry eruptions. The visual execution avoids illustrating the text and attempts a visual composition using individual images, stop-motion, and various forms of collage created under the camera.