Vantage Point

Performance by Olga Hohmann

“It depends on your point of view,” writes Reinhard Lettau – and it is precisely this notion that lies at the heart of Olga Hohmann’s performative reading Vantage Point. Shifting between perspectives and voices, the author and performer interrogates the construction of ideological orders and directional gazes. What begins as a seemingly simple question about cardinal points unfolds into a multilayered reflection on perception, positioning, and perspectivity – culminating in the inversion of the iconic Blue Marble image, adjusted to align with Western conventions of seeing.

Hohmann’s performance accompanies Ataraxia by Isabella Fürnkäs not as a direct intervention but as an atmospheric entanglement in which language, memory, and spatial perception mutually resonate and intensify. While Fürnkäs’ installation delineates a quiet field of sedimented perception and embodied memory, Hohmann engages movement, voice, and perspectival shifts – a constellation open to projection, resonance, and disorientation.
The idea of clarity remains, fortunately, an illusion. Instead, what emerges is a way of seeing in all directions at once – polyphonic, poetic, and porous.