Title: hardening
Year: 2018
Length: 04:18
Format: HD Video
Credits: Camera: Laura Duffy
hardening is a work responding to the biography of Hjelmar Von Danneville, a carer at the Lahmann Health Home home, who then became a patient after suffering a nervous breakdown whilst interned on Matiu Island. Shot on the original site of the home, the work imagines healing methods of hardening and air bathing.
Thematic tags: Body, landscape, feminism, sex and sexuality, LGBTQ
Aliyah Winter is an artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara whose performative work extends across the media of photography, video and performance.
http://www.vimeo.com/aliyahwinter