Rosanna Graf

The Super Bad

HD-Video, Sound, Colour, 16:40 min., 2019

In the Anthropocene we have to face the fact, that all non-human beings on this planet never were separate from us, let alone controlled by us. We've always been completely connected. It's not even possible to burn them, throw them away or flush them down the toilet without them coming back to us in some type of form, be it as harming pollution.
New human ecology like the one after Timothy Morton demonstrates this fatale feedback-loop we are in. In The Super Bad Graf's protagonist finds themselves in an apocalyptic set-up, having to save their life in the wilderness. The situation is super bad. As transmitter of a new truth about us and our connection to the environment, they become an unwanted voice, which get's banned to the woods. The nature here acts as sanctuary and menace at the same time. The formerly domesticated nature is becoming an active protagonist, while the witch is hunt down by their own slogans. As only tool at hand they're using a red rope to carve out their territory, to measure out the landscape and thereby creating an early-warning system, alerting them of their own feedback-loop. The thread is lost, the more the witch is tuning into the environment around them and constructed boundaries become fluid. The witch’s ostracism to the forest inspires a paradigm shift and enables interspecies alliances. Something is burning, and this time it's not the witches at the stakes, but the ground beneath our feet that needs to be understood, healed and revalued.

Rosanna Graf The Super Bad witch Video Art A woman is lying on the forest ground surrounded by leafes. Her chest is tied by a red rope forming a star.

Screenshot from The Super Bad by Rosanna Graf Video Art A woman is dragging herself through the dark forest using a red rope

The Super Bad, 2019, Screenshot, Rosanna Graf, Video Art

The Super Bad, Screenshot, 2019, Video Art, Rosanna Graf

Rosanna Graf The Super Bad witch Video Art A woman is lying on the ground talking into a cellphone looking into the camera

Rosanna Graf The Super Bad witch Video Art A female hand is caressing mushrooms coming out of a dead trea under violet light

Rosanna Graf The Super Bad witch Video Art A woman looking stressed is sitting between red leafs, wearing a camouflage raincoat with a hood.

Rosanna Graf The Super Bad witch Video Art

The Super Bad, (HD video) 2019; Exercising Restraint, (velvet, polypropylene rope), 2020, Sirene – Goldrausch 2020, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2020, Installation view (Photo: Eric Tschernow)

Rosanna Graf Kunsthaus Hamburg The Super Bad Installation view Video Kunst Art

The Super Bad, (HD video, polypropylene rope) 2019, Nominees, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2020, Installation View (Photo: Hayo Heye)

Written, directed and edited by Rosanna Graf
DOP: Goscha Steinhauer
Sound Design and Mixing: Nikolaus Graf
Gaffer: Laurens Bauer
Assistants: Laura Franzmann, David Schulz

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The Super Bad

HD-Video, Sound, Colour, 16:40 min., 2019

In the Anthropocene we have to face the fact, that all non-human beings on this planet never were separate from us, let alone controlled by us. We've always been completely connected. It's not even possible to burn them, throw them away or flush them down the toilet without them coming back to us in some type of form, be it as harming pollution.
New human ecology like the one after Timothy Morton demonstrates this fatale feedback-loop we are in. In The Super Bad Graf's protagonist finds themselves in an apocalyptic set-up, having to save their life in the wilderness. The situation is super bad. As transmitter of a new truth about us and our connection to the environment, they become an unwanted voice, which get's banned to the woods. The nature here acts as sanctuary and menace at the same time. The formerly domesticated nature is becoming an active protagonist, while the witch is hunt down by her own slogans. As only tool at hand they're using a red rope to carve out their territory, to measure out the landscape and thereby creating an early-warning system, alerting them of their own feedback-loop. The thread is lost, the more the witch is tuning into the environment around their and constructed boundaries become fluid. The witch’s ostracism to the forest inspires a paradigm shift and enables interspecies alliances. Something is burning, and this time it's not the witches at the stakes, but the ground beneath our feet that needs to be understood, healed and revalued.

The Super Bad, (HD video) 2019; Exercising Restraint, (velvet, polypropylene rope), 2020, Sirene – Goldrausch 2020, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2020, Installation view (Photo: Eric Tschernow)

The Super Bad, (HD video, polypropylene rope) 2019, Nominees, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2020, Installation View (Photo: Hayo Heye)

Written, directed and edited by Rosanna Graf
DOP: Goscha Steinhauer
Sound Design and Mixing: Nikolaus Graf
Gaffer: Laurens Bauer
Assistants: Laura Franzmann, David Schulz

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