weaving hydropower noir- Matilde Wg by RADIO LUFTBALLETT

In her work Gaustad makes use of the conflicts between feminist philosophy, science fiction and modernist aesthetics. A dualistic system is apparent in modernism - female/male, nature/culture, animal/human, physical/mental. She problematizes this thematic by mixing techniques that originate in feminism with modernist aesthetics. With the help of references to Science Fiction literature Gaustad merges these two subjects in video and textile installation made with hand-woven fabrics. In Science Fiction the borders between humans, genders, animal, technology and nature are stretched and broken. Here is a clear connection to feminist philosophy, but also modernist thinking. Despite modernism’s anti-feminist tendencies these two ideologies meet in a vision of the future.

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