Einwicklung mit Julia
Tying to Julia

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"The artist sits in front of the camera with her little daughter on her lap. To the sound of her breathing, she wraps gauze bandages around herself and the child until they are both tied tightly together."
(Source: Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005, p.216.)

"The artist in the role of the performer wraps long bandages around her torso and that of her daughter. This simple act of tying, wrapping, holding tight and keeping is familiar in the context of the iconography of the women’s culture of the seventies of the twentieth century, one of whose co-founder was Ulrike Rosenbach.
In "Tying to Julia" the strangling interlacing between mother and child is demonstrated that results in the adherence of the woman in the role of a mother – the tying can also be considered as a reversed birth piece, as a re-tying, a „planting the child to the Self”. (Lucy Lippard)"
(Source, artist's website)

Publications and Periodicals which reference the work

Gerhard Glüher (ed.), Ulrike Rosenbach : Wege zur Medienkunst 1969 bis 2004, Köln, Wienand, 2005.

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