https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site Saskia Burggraaf Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:32:59 +0000 https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site en https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/ACAB-Autotune-Compensates-Any-Bullshit-copy Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:58:45 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/ACAB-Autotune-Compensates-Any-Bullshit-copy Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/2D-work Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:44:40 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/2D-work Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops Drawings,(screen)prints, sketching &amp; etching <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/187f6bdf2c3dc225e5a2faaae5548b85bda87e948f039413ec309b20ef32b45e/zeefdrukken-voor-website.jpg" data-mid="195654862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/187f6bdf2c3dc225e5a2faaae5548b85bda87e948f039413ec309b20ef32b45e/zeefdrukken-voor-website.jpg" /> <img width="855" height="1137" width_o="855" height_o="1137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b0e5acc4e33847806cdcc78490e4100e510f242033472fc8e583ed5f50a2026/restorative.jpg" data-mid="228421884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/855/i/2b0e5acc4e33847806cdcc78490e4100e510f242033472fc8e583ed5f50a2026/restorative.jpg" /> <img width="5070" height="7020" width_o="5070" height_o="7020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/606f0641adace30feeeaae04d85ea53ad8ef86c0b01b7ccf63b7986933bed044/Scan-origineel.jpg" data-mid="163184739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/606f0641adace30feeeaae04d85ea53ad8ef86c0b01b7ccf63b7986933bed044/Scan-origineel.jpg" /> <img width="4665" height="3489" width_o="4665" height_o="3489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00bd08d75f9822dac19b50bd014719dd448e765d3ed25086be668dd56f40991e/Tekengebied-22x.png" data-mid="228421886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00bd08d75f9822dac19b50bd014719dd448e765d3ed25086be668dd56f40991e/Tekengebied-22x.png" /> <img width="4888" height="6936" width_o="4888" height_o="6936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e6287fc60403185d84c8d492572f7171c415c4701df6d7f1459a259d10d476c/baksteentjes_roze_site.jpg" data-mid="163184740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e6287fc60403185d84c8d492572f7171c415c4701df6d7f1459a259d10d476c/baksteentjes_roze_site.jpg" /> <img width="869" height="1173" width_o="869" height_o="1173" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ce61e707db9f0ee6d2754bb2c8df18889b2266a5540eb8cc5b300f3cd92bbfd/survived.jpg" data-mid="228421885" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/869/i/5ce61e707db9f0ee6d2754bb2c8df18889b2266a5540eb8cc5b300f3cd92bbfd/survived.jpg" /> https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Thesis Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:14:33 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Thesis Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops Making Worlds: Feminist Theory in activist performance for inclusive Belonging How to make space when you take space within urban squatter movements Abstract My thesis considers how internalized inequity of the neoliberal housing market and its propertymechanisms manifest themselves within the Dutch squatter movement (NKB), causing it to replicatesome of the structures it purports to oppose. As a femme queer-identifying artist with a squatter history, I am interested in the inter-relationship between (activist) communities, individual performances of property/non-proprietary comportments, and the way physical spaces retain complex traces of patriarchal economic structures within daily life. Putting the Dutch housing policy and struggle in the current context of global capitalism, anddrawing on Marxist, autonomist and feminist spatial theory, I argue that squatting culture in theNetherlands stymied its radical potential by its structural inattention to the non-binary complexity ofbordered, domestic and interpersonal scales of the political within its un/recognized histories. This thesis takes an alternative approach from materialist feminist theorists of race, geography, normativity, and the structurally oppressive household, including Silvia Federici, Sarah Keenan, Davina Cooper and DoreenMassey, to challenge the masculine norms of Marx’s historical materialism and property critique. Theworks of Margaret Davies, Nazima Kadir, E.T.C. Dee/Deanna Dadusc and an interview of Wendelien vanOldenborgh are used to further contextualize my argument concerning the necessity of feminist and queeroccupations/cohabitations as resistance to both late liberal capitalist belonging within “property logic”and masculine-normed ideals of autonomy. Material feminist analytics, including from performancetheory, in the scene of activism, here enable radical politics to emerge that are savvy to housing needs andanti-authoritarian politics by imagining intersubjective worlds that move beyond philosophically limitedconcepts of belonging and singular events of property repossession. Dutch Art Institute (DAI) Art Praxis Graduate School ArtEZ University of the Arts Master of Arts Thesis Supervisor: Rachel O’Reilly July 2020 https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Television-made-me-who-I-am Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:52:13 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Television-made-me-who-I-am Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops <img width="1248" height="1044" width_o="1248" height_o="1044" 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Mixed Media | 2026 | loop (this work is in the making) TaxxxonomiA – fuck hegemony radically questions and rejects the seemingly neutral ordering of the world—through taxonomies, power structures, and scientific systems. Through a hybrid narrative of text, image, body, and voice, the work weaves personal reflections with theoretical references (including Foucault and Donna Haraway) to expose the entanglements of knowledge, power, and identity. The installation unfolds as a protest against hegemonic structures that define what counts as ‘true’, ‘logical’, or ‘natural’. Through an intimate dialogue with a dog as companion, the work opens space for alternative forms of connection—beyond hierarchy, beyond language, and against the logic of utility or control. The animal does not serve as a symbol, but as a living counterweight: a silent witness to systemic failure, as well as survival and friendship. At the same time, the fragile ruins of a building become a tangible metaphor for broader socio-political decay: places where regulation, heritage status, and market logic clash with lived experience and collective memory. In these tensions between fragmentation and connection, between resistance and tenderness, something else begins to emerge—a form of refusal that resists classification, but insists on relation. <img width="8000" height="4500" width_o="8000" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16faab52970645bfea0e5e44574d772a0b8a6c83587039a69dfed4d7f015ffb4/roest-still-6.jpg" data-mid="244320102" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16faab52970645bfea0e5e44574d772a0b8a6c83587039a69dfed4d7f015ffb4/roest-still-6.jpg" /> https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Page-Nav Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:16:25 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Page-Nav ︎ ︎ ︎ https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/The-human-microphone Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:16:25 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/The-human-microphone Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops <img width="2048" height="717" width_o="2048" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a58d4c6aadf5515f31822a16085af2d840a67b4b41cd7132308eea338deeaf2/xarkis.jpeg" data-mid="118891963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a58d4c6aadf5515f31822a16085af2d840a67b4b41cd7132308eea338deeaf2/xarkis.jpeg" /> The Human Microphonegroup performance, workshop, audiopiece and residency at Xarkis FestivalI was part of the residency program and festival Xarkis Festival - 2019 - Φεστιβάλ Ξαρκής in Cyprus. The festival takes place on the 16th,17th and 18th of August. Visitors of the festival were welcome to join my (writing and performance) workshop 'The human microphone' (on queer trauma survival). The link below is a audio piece based on recording of this workshop. www.xarkisfestival.org. &nbsp; Saskia Burggraaf · Project:The People's Microphone (on Queering Trauma) Why this workshop?Personal stories of hurt, not functioning as society asks you, because you are hurt by society's (capitalist, hegemonic) problems, this is/ can be seen as a border (gender, sexuality, shame, functioning and misunderstanding) creating distance. A direct affect that is always relational. Your problems are forced into a form of personal shame or guilt, but for what or who actually, and what structures are repeated to fill in certain emotions?Borders created by ideas on gender are produced by patriarchy, and reproduced by many, through structures of shaming, victim blaming and other capitalist constructs of value.While we all want to move beyond trauma, the part of our brain that is devoted to ensuring our survival is seen as a negative. But we can see potential in taking action differently, rethinking an otherwise, being different, seeing potential in not finding “a cure” as expected. Curing and progress are mostly related to capitalist ideas of progression and value.By creating alternative anthems, that we together amplify with our voice, creating and remixing, we make other value commitments, not anthems relating to nation, as we all know anthems, but related to the complexity of non-linear idea's on activism and vulnerability. Protest anthems : To shout, to release, to change, as counter narratives of the dominant system that forces what is discussed and made (in)visible.How to think of alternative ways of living and not see it as failure, but just being? What is failure if we re-consider health and refuse functioning in capitalist ideas of success? Failure becomes a banal concept within a capitalist world, it becomes a specific kind of critique when making money is seen as success. Not making money, for any reason, becomes failure in itself.&nbsp;Another form to think about failure is thinking how the current system is already failing, but keeps absorbing more and asking more of people. What if we refuse to give anything any longer? The system could break, because it's powerful only through repetition of its power. To fail and to refuse can be used to show that used bodies (fit for making profit in capitalism), can impede capitalism, it could make something new and create different hierarchies, even if it's imaginative through a performative act.If personal stories relating to gender, which are usually connected to pain, trauma and/or violence, can show the borders that define us how can we break those borders and claim our autological stories while refusing the genealogical narrative around it? This could be done by using the 'negative' (shame, vulnerability, failure) as power tools and changing the narrative of becoming “better” or “in need of cure”, ideas promoted in society by capitalism and sexism. How do we create different ideas of the potential of failure if success is defined by capitalism? What are the terms failure and refusal actually? How do we use the ‘negative’, the dissonance as power tools? It is important to consider emotions as valid, always present, but also not always leading to a 'solution'.Reclaiming what is 'normal' behaviour, sexuality and desire is a start to thinking of other potential futures.We can propose alternative becomings and subjectivities. Breaking dominant narratives and so called ‘positivity’ within capitalist thinking. We can't break capitalism, but we can break our patterns of how we personally define growth.&nbsp; Our workshop was&nbsp; developed by our&nbsp; writing and reading theory and had the aim to&nbsp;breaks open narratives and subject matters, setting things into movement, offering an improvisational space in which different voices and imaginaries converge, sound together, go apart, come back together and are taken home in collective memory.The workshop itself The ‘people's microphone' creates alternative anthems by using voices as echo/amplification, similar to the Occupy movement. Breaking borders of gender ; why do we see shame, trauma, mental issues only as a negative 'in need of a cure'? It is based on the negative victim blaming from the outside. How can we use those elements as power-tools? We can rethink shame and trauma in order to activate alternative thinking against capitalist ideas. This is a form of non-linear activism told by stories. Maybe you don't consider yourself an activist, but what your body and mind went through creates a different way of thinking. Ultimately, mental disorder is a construct and a cure is an idea of progression claimed by capitalism.By using sound and voice as a conceptual tool, letting other spaces resonate with stories and frequencies, Saskia tries to improvise by telling alternative storylines in a non-linear way as form of resistance. Trauma and the negative outcome of that, (mental issues) can be a way of rethinking, fragmenting, reconsidering and reconstructing vulnerability without the capitalist claiming of it. Shame can used torethink the borders that define us. Sound and resonance used as a tool is the first step in creating alternative anthems in order to find value commitments not relating to capitalism, but to care and listening. The workshop and the outcome will be in English, unless there is a conceptual need to speak native tongue. We will work in a group of queer/female people, the outcome will be collective performance with the tool of a human microphone. See video file The Human MicrophoneMethod / writingWith a small group we started writing our (personal) anthems, reacting and listening to each others stories. Not as therapy, but as tools for potential other futures and justice to come.Any emotion was valid of course.We read some texts and watch lectures on improvisation, queerness, shame, pieces on trauma, queer time, failure and activism and anthem use.With that we made anthems, rhythms with stories, repeated by the group as resonance. This resulted in a live performance which later turned into an audiopiece.&nbsp;During the festival we made a collective text by combining everyone's text. Participants and visitors of the festival could say their own sentences or someone else's (depending on privacy needs) and we amplified it with the audience who then also became participants.&nbsp;We also chose to do the whispering method as well, whisper the story in somebody's ear and somebody will whisper it to the next person during the whole festival where the workshops take place. https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/The-final-girl Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:16:25 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/The-final-girl Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops scroll down for info The final&nbsp;girlvideo, 2018&nbsp; Watch the preview with sound via vimeo This video was presented at The Vishal in a group show called Frankenstein Participating artists: Mette Sterre, Saskia Burggraaf, Nathaniel Mellors, Jonas Ohlsson and Koen Vanmechelen.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Final girl is a trope in horror movies (particularly slasher). It refers to the last (usually white) woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. The Final girl has been observed by writer and researcher Carol Clover. In the book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992), Clover suggests that in these movies, the viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification with the final girl partway through the movie. The book ‘Frankenstein’ is the first sci-fi novel written by a woman. So when I was asked for an exhibition with the same title as the only woman participating, I started to research the role of women in horror and the art world. I also used elements of the art world. In my video 'The final girl' gets confronted with many cultural habits and difficulties. She switches from hero to victim and back, her actual role remaining unclear in the movie. She switches from the sublime, overwhelming nature of the south of Ethiopia, in the Dorze Mountains, to the bizarre (and actual) set of the cult movie ‘Planet of the Apes’, and finally she tries to survive the “Hell on earth”, The Danakil Depression, a surreal landscape that looks like another planet, near Eritrea. These places refer to the cinematic roles we always play, the references to movie scenes we all know, but also the loneliness a woman can experience in a world built by patriarchy. Using greenscreen and animation the protagonist becomes an absurd overload of a gamelike character, one which has to overcome the bigger questions in life. Mixed media : analog and digital video, animation, greenscreen, photography, music in collaboration with Menzo Schrik. https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Well-not-yet-Temporal-home Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:16:25 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Well-not-yet-Temporal-home Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops <img width="1960" height="1560" width_o="1960" height_o="1560" 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Metropolism M review https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Anne-2-0 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:16:26 +0000 Saskia Burggraaf https://saskiaburggraaf.cargo.site/Anne-2-0 Saskia Burggraaf.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ABOUT&nbsp; - AGENDA - CVvisual art &amp; design - enhanced by writing, theory, research and workshops Anne 2.0 video installation (2:15min) &nbsp;