We become Austrian, 2002 Video, 1,56 min In February 2002 there was a party in the Vienna City Hall for all “New Austrians”, who had just received their Austrian citizenship. I was one of the new Austrians. The head of Tschuschenkapelle (Viennese music band) tells:„We could translate “tschusch” or … or gypsy means actually roma,…
Verzweiflung, 1998 Video, 5 min
Sichere Zukunft – Video 16 min, 2005 A case study of “insufficient“ integration: The woman to whom this documentary is dedicated in 1977 took her three children and left Turkey to follow her husband to Vienna. Since this time, she lives in isolation as a houswife in the family apartment and yearns for home. Import…
Show, 2000/2001 Videoloop, 5,5 min. Show, 2000/2001 Videoloop, 5,5 min. I have been working on a building site. What could be seen as a documentary of my male collegues just passing by with teir overalls and helmets, carrying drills and tubes, turns out to be a kind of catwalk of workers. A catwalk of everyday…
Schuhplattler, 2000 Videoinstallation, 12,5 min Schuhplattler, 2000, 2012 Using the traditional folk dance „Schuhplatteln“ in a small village in Upper Austria, Songül Boyraz investigates rites which are used to confirm collective feelings of solidarity although at the same time they generate a mechanism of exclusion. A sense of belonging to a native place is used…
Add Your Heading Text Here Masters of War In the video at the end of the tunnel, we see children singing the song „Masters of war“ written in 1963 during the early years of the Cold War by Bob Dylan, against the oppressive militarist politics of Eisenhower. Installationview, 4th International Canakkale Biennial, 2014 Masters of War…
Kerstin / Erwin, 2001 2 Videoloops, each 2,50 min Each person watches a video work, which I made before. I let them watch and at the meantime I film the reactions of the persons. Installationview, Passau, 2001 Video projection on two walls, 2001
Judith Video 3 min, 1998 Judith There is a central theme in all the works of Songül Boyraz, and this central theme actually combines two questions: To what extent can the human body still be regarded and described as a membrane, that is, an intersection between the body as an area of experience and the body…
Intercom, 1997/2000 Installation, video, 7 min Spiegelt die Sozialwohnung fundamentale Strukturen des Sozialstaates wider, so der Gemeindebau fundamentale Strukturen des Nationalstaates, die sich beispielhaft im jahrzehntelangen Zuzugsverbot für AusländerInnen manifestieren. Bis vor kurzem war die in Wien regierende Sozialdemokratie zu feige, den rassistischen Konsens innerhalb der Mehrheitsbevölkerung (die fatale Koppelung von Sozialismus und Volk) aufzubrechen.…
Import Brides – Broken Dreams, 2009 Video installation, drawings on fabric In the multi layered installation work Import Brides – Broken Dreams Songül Boyraz confronts the cultural norms and normalization process(es) that entails additional dilemmas within migrant status, particularly in woman’s situation in gated communities at the edge of exclusionary zones through pointing tensions between the particular and…