Stefanie Sixt, sixt sense - BEAUTY ON THE EDGE

"Beauty on the Edge" Short Movie

selected for FOTOGENIA VIDEOART FESTIVAL

MEXICO-CITY 2024

STEFANIE SIXT (VIDEO) MARTINA CLAUSSEN (EXPERIMENTAL ELECTROACOUSTIC SOUND COMPOSITION)

Due to the overwhelming amount of media information and consumer-driven promotion of beauty ideals—from outward appearance to tailor-made lifestyles—the real challenge today lies in perceiving the self and recognizing one's true needs, in one's own attitude towards and sense of "BEAUTY." For the concept often reveals itself beyond the noise, in small everyday discoveries, in subtle sounds on the periphery.
Artists Martina Claussen (electroacoustic sound installation) and Stefanie Sixt (video) come together to create an audiovisual installation in which they explore the boundaries of the concept of beauty. Their perspectives range from the subjective classification of socially established expectations to the simple perception of beauty that resides in the moment.
The film was developed in collaboration with electroacoustic experimental sound artist Martina Claussen. Does transience signify an awareness of one's own finitude with all its consequences, the aging process on one hand, but also the attainment of inner maturity on the other? "Transience for me includes a certain melancholy, a drama, and at the same time, a liberation. This multifacetedness interests me greatly," says Claussen.

In Stefanie Sixt's video work, objects and materials are repurposed and placed in a new context. Used breast implants, for example, are transformed into artistic tools, serving as "Objet Trouvé." They become the starting point for visual experiments, a vehicle for bodily alienation, thus reversing their original meaning into the absurd: a body shaped by norms and societal expectations, altered to the point of deformation.

Martina Claussen Stefanie Sixt Kerstin Skringer Artoxin

Artist Talk Martina Claussen Stefanie Sixt Kerstin Skringer Artoxin

Artist Talk Martina Claussen Stefanie Sixt Kerstin Skringer Angelika Donhärl Artoxin

Martina Claussen live Performance Artoxin

Artist Talk Martina Claussen Stefanie Sixt Kerstin Skringer Artoxin

Fotos @ Julia Milberger

BEAUTY ON THE EDGE II

EXHIBITION 6.SEPT – 19.OCT 2024

The artists Martina Claussen (electroacoustic sound installation), Kerstin Skringer (painting), and Stefanie Sixt (video / initiator) collaboratively create an audiovisual installation in which they explore the boundaries of the concept of beauty. Their perspectives range from the subjective interpretation of socially established expectations to moments of memory that are retrospectively rewritten.
In the collaborative creative process of the artists, the works are inspired both by thematic discourse and by the exchange of objects or audio, which serve as starting points for artistic processing. Recorded conversations become part of the sound, noises inspire the film, and vice versa. Among other elements, attributes of the artificial beauty industry, such as lipstick and implants, become motifs or material.
In this way, the collective influences each other, sharpening their individual positions throughout the creative process.

“the crack”, 2024

audiovisual installation by

MARTINA CLAUSSEN (sound) KERSTIN SKRINGER (painting)STEFANIE SIXT (video)
The installation will be presented at the exhibition BEAUTY ON THE EDGE II @galerie_artoxin , Munich

Opening: 6 September 2024 at 6 pm during

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BEAUTY ON THE EDGE

AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION

NEUE GALERIE IM HÖHMANNHAUS, Augsburg
12.04.2024 – 02.06.2024

KOLLEKTIV MIT MARTINA CLAUSSEN (KOMPOSITION/WIEN), KERSTIN SKRINGER (MALEREI, MÜNCHEN), LYDIA DAHER (TEXT, AUGSBURG)

Eröffnung 11.04., 19H

Begrüßung: Thomas Elsen, Kurator der Neuen Galerie im Höhmannhaus

Artist Talk 12.04., 19h MIT LIVE PERFORMANCE

Mit dem Projekt 'Beauty on the Edge' formulieren die Künstlerinnen Martina Claussen (Sound), Kerstin Skringer (Malerei), Lydia Daher (Foto/Text) und Stefanie Sixt (Video) im Rahmen einer Audiovisuellen Installation ihre Positionen zu gesellschaftlichen Erwartungshaltungen und von Klischees bestimmten Normen für Frauen. Welche unsichtbaren, verdrängten und entwerteten Realitäten spielen sich an den Rändern dieser Normen ab? In einem dialogischen kreativen Prozess mischen sich die Künstlerinnen in aktuelle Diskussionen ein (z.B. um Sorgearbeit, Stellenwert des Äußeren versus des Inneren) und schaffen eine Ausstellung, in der sich Erlebtes und Gelebtes, Privates und Politisches verweben.

/"With the project 'Beauty on the Edge,' the artists Martina Claussen (Sound), Kerstin Skringer (Painting), Lydia Daher (Photo/Text), and Stefanie Sixt (Video) articulate their positions on societal expectations and norms for women defined by stereotypes. What invisible, suppressed, and devalued realities unfold at the margins of these norms? In a dialogical creative process, the artists engage in current discussions (e.g., about care work, the importance of appearance versus inner qualities) and create an exhibition where lived experiences intertwine with the personal and the political."