How does it feel?
Video Installation, 09:18 min, Deichtorhallen / Sammlung Falckenberg, 2018
How does it feel? is a video installation by the artist and psychologist Kirstin Burckhardt. It introduces the Body Map Institute as an interdisciplinary platform for arts and science.
This video is rooted in a thought experiment: What if an art piece introduced a theory that unifies psychological literature on the body’s disconnection—from bliss to trauma?
What if this theory were presented by a figure of authority—a proposed expert, cis-male, Caucasian, middle-aged—who is then exposed to the skin by the camera’s gaze?
The project as a whole challenges the concept of “Body Ownership” and explores the dynamic relationship between “me” and “mine.” It raises questions about how we identify with the body, from what perspective, and through which lens of power.
Video link and password request: mail[ät]bodymapinstitute.com
Director & writer: Kirstin Burckhardt
Producer: Carolin Drzalic
Cast: Christian Wewerka
Director of Photography: Christian Passeri
Editor: Dagmar Schürrer and Kirstin Burckhardt
Production Designer: Kirstin Burckhardt
First Assistant Director: Marielle Samstad
Set Operator: Lilli Williams
First Assistant Camera: Burkhard Klein
Gaffer: Sam Gillen
Sound Recordist: Gerasimos Asimakopoulos
Sound Design: Noah Klein and Kirstin Burckhardt
Intro and outro song: Shadow by Noah Klein
Makeup/Hair: Lucie Biloshytskyy and Marielle Samstad
Wardrobe: Kirstin Burckhardt
Still Photography: Eva Gjaltema
Color Correction: Kirstin Burckhardt
Color Consultant: Lavinia Camarda