In the early 20th century, the rapid expansion of industrial production, the seemingly limitless potential for profit and the pressing need to improve working conditions fuelled initiatives to optimise workflows. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she presents her work and discusses her artistic practice. Sandra Schäfer’s video work Where Gravity Fades, created for the exhibition Robotron. Code and Utopia, explores the relationship between humans and machines, the energy they expend, and the resources required for production.
Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she presents her work and discusses her artistic practice.
Sandra Schäfer’s work in film, photography, and artistic research focuses on the processes of creating urban and transregional spaces, history, and image politics. In 2018, she completed her artistic PhD on militant images and space politics at the HfbK Hamburg. Schäfer is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and an associate member of the feminist film distributor Cinenova in London. Her work is regularly shown at festivals such as the 66th and 67th Berlinale (Forum Expanded), Berlin, and in exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She has published numerous books, including with Archive Books, Camera Austria and Spector Books.
Clemens von Wedemeyer is an artist and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. His films and video installations have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including dOCUMENTA(13) 2012, skulptur projekte münster 2007, and MoMA, New York. Major solo exhibitions have been held at the GfZK Leipzig and Kunstmuseum Luzern (2019), the Hamburger Kunsthalle and nbk Berlin (both 2016), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2013); Barbican Centre, London (2009); PS1, New York (2006).