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A screenshot of the project website. Various photos, quotes and handwritten notes are summarized as a collage.

SELFIE II (2020)

SELFIE II (meaning to take a picture of oneself) is a project by should-I-know. The duo had a residency in Schotten again in 2020. This is a small town in Hesse in Germany. SELFIE II is part of the FLUX network.

should-I-know got a glimpse of the small town of Schotten and met many people from there. Together with them they built a SELFIE of the town of Schotten.

There was a digital food conference where people cooked and ate together in different places in Schotten. Others painted pictures, took photos or told stories about Schotten. Together they also organised an exhibition in a shop gallery. This was done to promote the result.

The result is a website: www.schotten2020.de This is the SELFIE of Schotten. On the website you can learn a lot about and from Schotten. You get to know the people who live there. You can find out what happened there during SELFIE II.

press and links

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For two weeks, the choreographer and the video artist traveled the greater Schotten community, covering a distance of 600 km. (...) In preparation, Cornelius Schaper and Tümay Kilincel wrote to associations and motivated them to take part. (...) The artist couple conducted numerous interviews, portrayed their interviewees with the camera and let them have their say with their individual stories.

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Ein Selfie von Schotten (Stefan Weil, Kreis Anzeiger, 26.08.2020)

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Mosaikbild von Schotten: Selfie2 (Brigitta Möllermann, Hessenmagazin, 10.08.2020)

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Kunst als heilsame Kraft (Stefan Weil, Kreis Anzeiger, 06.10.2020)

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the digital SELFIE on the net | project website

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SELFIE II documentation on Instagram

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SELFIE II at FLUX Hessia

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intro movie on YouTube

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Choreografien vor den Überwachungskameras der Kleinstadt – Selbstaufnahmen und digitale Assemblagen in ‹SELFIE2› von Kılınçel & Schaper als Befragung von Machtfigurationen in ländlichen Räumen (Barbara Sterzenbach, Micha Kranixfeld und Wiebke Waburg in Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 18: Ästhetik – Digitalität – Macht, 01.03.2022)

Dates

July – October 2020 | Schotten

should-I-know pose with the town sign of Schotten.
A selfie with Gudrun Haas from the multi-generation house.
Selfie with Barbara Sterzenbach from the University of Koblenz.
Tümay Kılınçel and Cornelius Schaper sit in the summer garden and plan the next steps.
should-I-know in Schotten in conversation with a farmer who proclaims his opposition to the Green Party on a poster.
should-I-know in a video call with a colleague.
One of the residents from Schotten is sitting on the sofa at home. In the foreground, a plastic heart is held in front of the camera.
should-I-know in conversation on site with a resident of the town of Schotten.
should-I-know look out over the Vogelsberg landscape at sunset.
A performer is bent over a large stone in the forest and integrates the body into the natural environment.
A person in folkloristic Scottish dress and bagpipes stands in front of a dam. Next to it stands a person with a clay rod and in the foreground, under a parasol, a person kneels at a camera.
A person is standing behind a tripod with a camera. Behind them is another older person taking photographs.
A group of young people shine flashlights into a surveillance camera at the youth center.
A large poster advertising the finished website has been put up in a large shop window in Schotten.

Credits

artistic direction and realisation

Cornelius Schaper, Tümay Kılınçel

graphic and web design

Laura Jil Beyer

transcription, image description, audio description

Annika Restin

audio editing

Diego Badian

video editing

Cornelius Schaper

Cooperation

Stadt Schotten, Mehrgenerationenhaus Schotten

SELFIE 2 was realized as part of the FLUX residency. Funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art as part of the Hessian Kulturkoffers.