Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo

PROTEST AND DESIRE (exceprt)4K / 2-channel video / 19.55 min / Surround Sound / 2019Video by Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo | Director of Photography Julia Geiss | Sound Design Sum Sum Shen
Protest and Desire is a video artwork that challenges popular STD / HIV discourse by focusing on how women of color deal with intimacy, sex, and age that relates to STDs and HIV within the landscape of white Europe.

The video concentrates on an endearing 2 year portrait of, “Lillian”, a 49 year old woman from Uganda who has lived in Germany since the early 2000s as a consequence of her HIV status. Her words disentangle notions about how women of color relate to their own sexuality, interracial relationships, ideas of belonging, and their personal complexities with HIV / STDs. The work delicately unveils inherent biases that are bound to women of color and their struggle to attain acceptance both within and outside their own communities. Through dream like sequences and whimsical imagery, Protest and Desire imagines new ways to define what is normal and propels new meaning on “sickness”, desire, and relationships by confronting the ghosts of the past and the fears that haunt our present realities.

Kindly Supported by: Delight Rental Service , The Berlin Senate, The District Cultural Fund of Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain, Galerie im Turm, Edited at Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Winnipeg CanadaCool Girl (excerpt)
4/3 Video Color / Sound - 2019
4.55 minBitches and Witches (excerpt)4/3 video / color / sound /4.30 min
2019Labor of Love (excerpt)HD video, Color / Sound, 22.55 min, 2016

Featuring Rafael Schistl, Francisco Franco Da Silva and Andrasch Starke | Original Score Composed by Tami T

The 22 minute length video "Labor of Love" dissects the freelance labor conditions of professional horseracing through an endearing series of portraits of several German-based international jockeys including Andrasch Starke winner of the 2011 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and the 2012 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and considered by many the best German jockey of all time. From the side of the tracks, horseracing appears as a sport rooted in pedigree, exclusivity, and elitism; at the opposite end of the spectrum is the reality of the jockeys’ existence. Many of them come from immigrant backgrounds, and sacrifice family life, health, safety, and material comfort in their dedication to the sport they love. While their voices are rarely heard in the mainstream sports world, the jockeys in D’Angelo’s work speak freely and openly about the pressures and dangers of their everyday lives and careers, which are held to a delicate precipice and impending expiration date owing to such factors as body weight, age, and injury.

Production Credits :
Director / Editor - Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo | Music - Original Musical Score Composed by Tami T | Director of Photography - Sander Houtkruijer & Bastian Hopfgarten
Sound Editing / Audio Mastering - Tami T | Co-producer - Bastian Hopfgarten | Supported by Alpha Nova Futura Galeriemade with Lay Theme