We were able to become humans in the very end
2019, Installation (acrylic glass panel, animation celluloid, LED light tube, sound)
We were able to become humans in the very end illuminates, in terms of both content and form, how the queer identity of the character Fisheye from the Japanese anime series Sailor Moon is represented through the transformative power of language and translation.
Attached to the acrylic glass panel is an animation celluloid showing a frame of the anime's original animation process. The atmospheric soundscape explores the differences in the Japanese, English and German dubbing of the voice of the character Fisheye. How are trans*, non-binary and queer identities represented in Japanese animated series and what stereotypical representations and attributions are reproduced? What power does translation - with all its dislocation and margins of interpretation - have over the representation of identity?
Shown in the group exhibition Translocal Scores as part of the project New Mappings of Europe Off-Space Gumpendorferstraße, Vienna
