The oeuvre of the Japanese artist Akiko Hada (b. 1961, lives in Berlin) includes animations, music videos, and performance and concert documentations. From 1979 to 1989 she lived in England, where she also collaborated with the directors John Maybury and David Larcher. The lyrical video tale The Leap (No Leap) is accentuated with electronic inserts and a blend of images. Hada’s inner monologue on feminine maturity and the possibility of a fatal, redemptive leap is interwoven with fragments of texts from Aleister Crowley and Sappho against backdrops of Arcadian images of nature and depictions of bondage.
The Luxembourgian-Swiss artist Myriam Thyes (b. 1963, lives in Düsseldorf) studied with, among others, Nan Hoover. In her animation Global Vulva feminine symbols are transformed into a cycle that connections eras and worlds. Based on a story by the feminist author Mithu M. Sanyal, Wer hat Maria ermordet? thematizes the process of analytical self-determination.
