borders2020/ Year: 2021/Video 16min/ Location: Hamburg,GER / Athens, Lesvos, GREECE

This video highlights the intersection of humanitarian activism and the challenges posed by a global pandemic, illustrating how grassroots efforts are mobilized to address human rights violations in Europe, particularly on the island of Lesvos. It underscores the critical role that volunteers and NGOs play in filling the gaps left by governmental inaction, while also reflecting on the complexities of transnational activism amid shifting political landscapes and public health crises.

(she/they) (*1996, Freiburg, GER) works at the intersection of sound, performance, objects, and video. Their working method is fluid, ephemeral, and process-oriented. This is accompanied by fields of research: archives, remembrance practices, rest and desire. Currently, Leitenmayer works on prostheses, non-functioning bodies, and the repair of different live forms and explores graveyard orbit. Previous works focused on the water systems of cities, which the artist is listening to and resonating with by using hydrophone and saxophone. Collective and interdisciplinary approaches are an integral part of their practice. In 2019 they founded the art space orbit.altona, Hamburg, and in 2020 they joined the team of Hyper Cultural Passengers, Hamburg as part of the international artist network Portjourneys. Leitenmayer holds a Master of Fine Arts from Hamburg University of Fine Arts (DE). Their works have been exhibited at Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Kunstverein Springhornhof, HYCP Hamburg, Spinnerei Leipzig, Delphi Space, and ((NYT)) Berlin. Solo exhibitions include ‘Three River Pieces’ at Ono Point Space Yokohama, ‘Kinderbrille’ at Galerie für Gegenwartskunst EWERK Freiburg, ‘Papierfischchen’ at Galerie Genscher Hamburg and ‘Raummoden’ at Galerie Oelfrüh Hamburg.

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