Due to the measures taken for Covid-19, the advancement award exhibition FANTASTIC FUTURES - Films on Care and Collectivity at M.1 could not open as planned on May 2. In order to provide access to art even in times of "social distancing", the trailers of the 2019/20 Arthur Boskamp Foundation's 2019/20 awardees, Malu Blume and Maternal Fantasies, will be shown daily from 9 am to 7 pm in the window fronts of M.1.

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FANTASTIC FUTURES
Films on Collectivity and Care
by Malu Blume and Maternal Fantasies

Visions of the future enable us to mentally escape from an everyday life that constricts us, in which we feel misunderstood -- and at the same time, these visions offer a platform to our urge for change. In the exhibition, Fantastic Futures at M.1, the awardees Malu Blume and Maternal Fantasies use an array of artistic methods in order to challenge a rigid reality in which traditional gender roles and limited ideas of community and care seem to be enshrined. The awardees combine film, installation and performative elements around the thematic focus of the call, which was set on Care.

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In her video work Hildesheim-born performance and video artist Malu Blume takes the viewer back to the future: The Book of S of I. Chapter One: Three Visions appears like a feverish dream of an artistic concept, like a spontaneous vision of what we could have become. Told as a queer-feminist fairy tale, The Book of S of I celebrates the utopian power of self-love on the social fringes, belonging and friendship as a survival strategy and care as a radical means of anti-capitalist resistance and life.

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A recording of the artist talk with Malu Blume is available on Vimeo.

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The interdisciplinary collective of artists Maternal Fantasies deals with the intersection of art, children and motherhood, which receives little attention both in society and art discourse. Family stories, memories, desires, but also horror scenarios about being a mother can be found in the work of Maternal Fantasies. Through performances, video works and installations, they challenge rigid images of mothers, and develop a unique aesthetic that sketches possible future visions of motherhood. Their film Suspended Time, on Caring, developed in the context of the award, invites viewers to question their own role models.

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A recording of the artist talk with Maternal Fantasies is available on Vimeo.

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The two central video works by the recipients of the Advancement Awards 2019/20 of the Arthur Boskamp-Stfitung were specifically developed for Fantastic Futures and were filmed in Hohenlockstedt and the surrounding area. In a sense, the region between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea becomes a kind of stage on which fantastic visions of the future take place. This allows the fields of tension to unfold between care, gender and community, oscillating between euphoria and delusion. As fragile as these concepts may seem, maybe they are the ones that can let a different future become reality.

Curated by Sascia Bailer, artistic director 2019/20 of the M.1.

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The exhibition is part of Caring Infrastructures, a cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Soft Agency. The event is supported by the Förderstiftung Kreis Steinburg and the Cultural Foundation of the State of Schleswig-Holstein.