While Sandra Knecht crafted sausages from the blood of a twenty-year-old Simmental cow, she spoke about the life of an average dairy cow in Switzerland. Afterwards, the audience could take the fresh blood sausages home with them.
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2018
SWISS PERFORMANCE AWARD
With: Rahel Sternberg, Frédéric De Carlo
Texts: Kristin T. Schnider
Concept, music, direction and choreography:
Sandra Knecht
Let the battle begin! The actress Rahel Sternberg and the dancer Frédéric De Carlo meet on a catwalk.
On this stage, it's acting versus dance, text versus movement. But this competition also appears to be a game for personal happiness, a fight for survival. After all, what rules and regulations do we follow every day? What codes do we use and how do they determine our perception?
2018
OBEN SITZT EIN AFFE
Knecht’s installation centres on Alpine regions, and on myths and legends in particular. Transcendence plays a no less inherent role in her photographic series entitled Tschinn (2014–), in which she not only exhibits a pho-
tograph but also a mask and an outfit. For the opening, visitors were served high-proof “spirit” from a block of ice; from Gletschermilch (2022), a schnapps which Knecht distilled herself from eleven mountain herbs.
SWISS ART AWARDS
2022
Theater am Neumarkt
Performance and music , Andalus Liniger
Concept, direction and music, Sandra Knecht
Sandra Knecht's “Taboo 1: Race”
deliberately provokes with absurd racial theories.
A captivating production, a convincing performer and
a unique audience experience.
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2008
RACE
„Young, Savage, and Handsome“ (German: Jung, Brutal, und Gutaussehend) assembles 122 YouTube amateur videos in response to the outbreak of the „Arab Spring“, a series of protests, uprisings and revolutions in the Arab world. The collection portrays recent (self)representations of men, politically motivated riots as well as their suppression, and the enforcement of state power.
The YouTube clips were originally posted as a kind of diary on Facebook (similar series, posted according to the same principle are „Sweet Sixteen“ and „Pigsty“). Billions of videos and postings meet with hundreds of millions of possible users and onlookers – lending YouTube and Facebook extraordinary power of definition.
YouTube was the obvious choice as a reservoir of public expression and representations – a space of „Community“, where the videos produced for the Community exist beyond but simultaneously with the
„offical“ stream of videos, the „mainstream“.
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2011-2014
JUNG BRUTAL GUTAUSSEHEND
2015
SIROCCO
Sirocco is the second film in a series about power,
home and love. It was shot on 8mm and then digitized.
In this case, home is also the question of gender identity and the longing for the traditions and culture from which one comes.
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Taking up an invitation by the two curators, Sandra Knecht journeyed to Pula and Labin to compose three dishes prepared by the chefs of Hotel Peteani for the 4th Industrial Art Biennial. Researching original recipes from Istria, especially Labin, Knecht then innovatively combined
some of the favourite produce grown and sold by local market women. The outcome, among other things, was a dessert of deep-fried krafi, a raviolo stuffed with sheep‘s cheese, served with aniseed ice cream, plum compote and hazelnut-pumpkin-seed croquante...
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2023
LANDSCAPE OF DESIRE
2015
UND OBEN SITZT EIN AFFE
'Und oben sitzt ein Affe' is the second part of the video series about power, home and love.
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