Esther Hunziker
03.07.20 – 12.07.20
Projection
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cw: Human skin scar (photo: stockphoto.com) — Filmstill from Alien,
Ridley Scott, USA 1979 — Ectoplasm photography: The medium Stanislawa P:
emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth. Albert
von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913 — Long sinuous, helical coiled and polarized
filament with conical apex (<1.3 μm) and terminal heterocyst in the Orgueil
meteorite. Source: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous
Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus, Richard
B. Hoover (photo: Journal of Cosmology / NASA) — Videostill from Projection,
Esther Hunziker, 2020




Projection
2 Channel Videoinstallation, 22 Min. Loop, Audio, 2020

cw: Human skin scar (photo: stockphoto.com) — Filmstill from Alien,
Ridley Scott, USA 1979 — Ectoplasm photography: The medium Stanislawa P:
emission and resorption of an ectoplasmic substance through the mouth. Albert
von Schrenck-Notzing, 1913 — Long sinuous, helical coiled and polarized
filament with conical apex (<1.3 μm) and terminal heterocyst in the Orgueil
meteorite. Source: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous
Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus, Richard
B. Hoover (photo: Journal of Cosmology / NASA) — Videostill from Projection,
Esther Hunziker, 2020

cw: Videostill from Projection,
Esther Hunziker, 2020 — Filmstill from It Came from Beneath the Sea,
Robert Gordon, USA 1955 — Portrait of Sigmund Freud, photography by Max
Halberstadt, 1921 — Ancient microfossils. Source: Silica-Carbonate Structures
and Detection of Ancient Microfossils, Science Vol 302, 2003 — Mike
Kelley, Trickle Down and Swaddling Clothes, 1986. Source: mikekelleyfoundation.org

cw: Extract from Monsters, Perversion, and Enjoyment: Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Postmodern Horror, Han-yu Huang, Tamkang University — Mike Kelley, photograph from The Poltergeist, 1979. Source: Photographs / Sculptures, published at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 2009

cw: Videostill from Projection,
Esther Hunziker, 2020 — Skin texture from the video Projection,
Esther Hunziker, 2020 — Figure of the Uncanny Valley Effect with
the classification of various objects and creatures. Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny Valley. —
Videostill from Projection, Esther Hunziker, 2020 — Louise
Bourgeois Cell XXII (Retrato), 2000. Source: questranhaformadevida.blogspot.com

cw: Franz West, Sculpture Rose Drama, Centre Pompidou (photo: © Philippe Migeat) — Abstract from Materialising the Medium: Ectoplasm and the Quest for Supra-Normal Biology in Fin-de-Siècle Science and Art, Robert Brain, University of British Columbia, Vancouver — Nabelschnurknoten (photo: Imke Dubs, Sonographie von Plazenta, Fruchtwasser und Nabelschnur) — Schema L by Jacques Lacan. Source: Jacques Lacan Écrits, Paris,1966

cw: Image and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy elemental data for filaments found embedded in the Ivuna CI1 carbonaceous meteorite. Source: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa and Enceladus, Richard B. Hoover (photo: Journal of Cosmology / NASA) — Videostill from Projection, Esther Hunziker, 2020 — Filmstill from The Quatermass Xperiment (aka The Creeping Unknown), UK 1955

cw: Colon surgery due to megacolon disease — Sarah Lucas, Nud (24), 2010. Source: tate.org.uk (photo: © Sarah Lucas) — Sarah Lucas, NOBBY BLOKE, 2017. Source: cfa-berlin.de — A male and female pair of Schistosoma parasites. Source: Eye of Science / Science Source — Louise Bourgeois Crouching Spider, 2003 (photo: © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY)

cw: Skin disease (photo: dreamstime.com) — Videostill from Projection, Esther Hunziker, 2020 — Cover from Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, published by Sonsbeek 1993 — Louise Bourgeois wearing a latex cast of her work Avenza (photo: The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York; Mark Setteducati) — Skin disease (photo: 123rf.com)
