Deniz Sözen
Deniz Sözen
Deniz Sözen
Deniz Sözen
VIENNA SOEZEN
Vienna Soezen, Video-performance
Video loop, 2 min 11s
EXHIBITED: Trans Angeles, solo exhibition, Start Gallery, MUSA, Vienna 2015
Currently part of The Collection of contemporary art of the City of Vienna
Photo Credit: Martin Bilinovac
Soezen shares her experience of the Medical Marijuana Evaluation Center, Los Angeles by dressing up in a “dirndl” and wearing a blonde wig playing with the clichés of "Austrian-ness".
While exhaling marijuana smoke live on camera, the artist tells how her place of birth (Vienna) was mistaken as her first name by the Californian receptionist who issued a medical marijuana license for “Vienna Soezen”.
This multi-part installation includes a plastic cannabis plant and a framed California-state license for the consumption of medical marijuana issued for “Vienna Soezen”.