Daniel Hafner's 'Modern People' offers a unique artistic examination through installation and performance. This project explores public spaces, landscapes, and everyday objects, drawing compelling parallels to psychoanalytic attention to detail. At the Sigmund Freud Museum, visitors can discover how performers interact with their surroundings based on symbolic instructions, creating mindful redefinitions of encountered realities and 'discarded' items.
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Daniel Hafner's 'Modern People' is an installation and performance project exploring public spaces through video recordings and found objects. Performers interact with their surroundings based on symbolic instructions, offering a mindful examination of encountered realities and 'useless, discarded' items.
Daniel Hafner's artistic practice, increasingly centered on the potential of artistic action, is represented by the installation 'Modern People,' intrinsically linked to a performance staged at various locations with fellow artists. The filmic recordings from these performances form a fundamental component of the spatial composition within the Showroom Berggasse 19. The concept is directed towards exploring public spaces, using landscapes and objects—both techno-industrial and botanical—as an impetus to engage with and come to terms with encountered realities. Performers follow instructions inscribed as symbols on stones and leaves, resulting in delicate, quiet, and mindful examinations and redefinitions of our surroundings, often recalling mundane actions guided by the world of objects. 'Modern People' directs our focus towards 'useless, discarded, disposed of, lost, or fallen objects,' mirroring the psychoanalytic method's attention to 'neglected, unnoticed details' (Freud, 1914). The video installation specifically features found objects and video footage from the 2021 performance, which includes collaborators Elke Auer, Daniel Hafner, Nora Plank, and Katharina Schmied. The production details for the video component, including camera work, production assistance, and editing, are also provided.
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