Alles hat ein Ende
The research-based, autofictional video installation “Everything Has an End” establishes connections between the post-war meat industry and passive memory in the context of family narratives. The current trend of pasture slaughter is used to examine the social invisibility of commercial animal production. In the video, interviews with butchers, archive material and sausage arrangements come together in front of the panorama of the Pinzgau landscape to create a lush, pink-meat-coloured visual world. The artist, who herself grew up in a family of butchers, sheds light on the still male-dominated meat industry from a feminist perspective.
The research-based, autofictional video installation “Everything Has an End” establishes connections between the post-war meat industry and passive memory in the context of family narratives. The current trend of pasture slaughter is used to examine the social invisibility of commercial animal production. In the video, interviews with butchers, archive material and sausage arrangements come together in front of the panorama of the Pinzgau landscape to create a lush, pink-meat-coloured visual world. The artist, who herself grew up in a family of butchers, sheds light on the still male-dominated meat industry from a feminist perspective.
Julia Schäfer