Circles I, Jonas Englert, 2019
Video, 7-channel, 4:3, silent

Circles I draws on historical pre-digital film material and attempts to tell what is commonly understood as contemporary history as a history of interpersonal encounters. In the multichannel video installation, physical contact functions as the most binding institute—for touching means to be touched, and touch as such can shimmer even through the most representative surface of propagandistic staging. In Circles I, public figures connect in ever circling chain-like circles through interpersonal (skin) contact. The video collage dismantles documentary scenes of political encounters against the background of the events of both world wars and beyond into a rhizome of interpersonal contact, choreographs a round dance of multiple circles of touch, that interplay with one another.

Funded by HessenFilm.