schminki 1, 2 + 3

Vienna 1998, 8 Min

Music: Marcin Stelmaszczyk, Oliver Stotz

Not only since Paris is Burning have images of make-op rituals been closley connected with the question of the dominating gender norms, because the act of putting on make-up seveals simultaneously the making of bodies. Putting on lipstick seems to directly go along with the crossing of the legs, i.e. a multitude of supposedly "female" identifiable poses. The performative character is inherent in such images because the construction of the gender is being revealed. In schminki 1, 2 + 3 a woman is putting on make-up. A woman, disguised as a woman, exhibits images of her own creation. Individual image-photographs follow each other, but not in chronological sequence. The poses, respectively their identifiability, precede the images, and the aesthetic operation clarifies the construction. Rukschcio creates a parody of the prevailing norms by trying to reveal the imitative structure of gender norms. Images of hegemonial gender discourses to which the title refers, are to be questioned in the parody.

Christa Benzer, Translation: Birgit Rukschcio

"Un jour comme un autre"

Installation with two Projections, Paris 2003, 23 Min

With: Birgit Ball, Gilbert Rukschcio, Elena von Schlieffen,Jean Prisset, Yasmin Touré, Monika Seelig, Till Rukschcio, Gwendolyn Rukschcio, Natalie Tujague, Julie Remy, Dan Kedar, Michael Michlmayr, Music: Yuji Yasunaga