Mateja Meded

In her work, the artist, actress and author Mateja Meded deals intensively with language, its use and implicit power: in a society still dominated by men who largely fill positions of power, language is an equivalent of this logic and thus reproduces existing structures. In the tradition of feminist practices Meded finds forms of appropriation and creates a gesture of self-empowerment.

Meded's performance Fotzenschleimpower gegen Raubtierkapitalismus (Cunt slime power against predatory capitalism) continues the narrative of her video If you want to understand the universe, you have to think in terms of frequency, vibration and energy (2021-2022). Herein, a quote by physicist Nicola Tesla forms the frame of a time capsule; a message from an alien-artist from the future.

In her performance, Meded embodies this being that "sits somewhere between nature and the state, increasing isolationist policies, recession, wars and authoritarian regimes, Nazis and White Supremacy, exploitation and overexploitation of humans and nature as destructible resources (...)." Now, the alien-artist lands in the Kunsthalle and interrogates with the world’s state of mind.

"(...) The being listens to Schwesta Ewa, the being reads Audre Lorde, the being drinks a Raki and thinks about white feminism. (...) The being spreads panic, genital panic from the compendium on feminist art. Cunt slime power says the being, bitchwitch futurism. (...) Hochkültür."