iartTV – Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Eine Frau zu sehen (to see a woman) – Exhibition at Museum Strauhof Zurich until 1 June 2008
The video installation ‘Lebensfluss’ (stream of life) by the artist Syl Betulius contains a collage of historical black and white photographs and films, music and spoken texts written by Annemarie Schwarzenbach and a piece of clothing hanging at the ceiling. iart was responsible for planning the media installation, tegoro solutions ag for the technical realisation.
Schwarzenbach’s own photographs from journeys in the Orient and the USA and portraits of herself are shown in four combined projections on a ground of salt. Next to the row of pictures the costume of “The Rose Cavalier” is displayed. This was made in 1911 for opera singer Emmy Krüger – the mistress of Annemarie’s mother Renée Schwarzenbach. And Annemarie Schwarzenbach wore it in the early 1920th, which gets visible through pictures.