“No Real Body” (The Fiction of a Singular Identity) is a three channel video installation – 3 videos, based on the same film script, produced in three different locations of the world (Nigeria, Palestine, Myanmar). In each location the local production teams adjusted the content of the screenplay according to the different social, political, and cultural circumstances. The outcome is a narrative that unfolds differently in each location.

While the Nigerian team examines the patriarchy in the country, the Gaza-team reflects on the clash of politics and religion. The Myanmar-team reflects on the human condition in a country searching for its post-colonial, post-military identity.

The viewer is confronted with a simultaneity of realities. Both the individual plots of the films, as well as the setup of the installation lead to one question: “Who would we be, if we had been born elsewhere.” 

In the first moment this questions seems to be a banal one – but at a closer look this questions leads to a complex thinking process about the deconstruction of the concept of a singular identity.

The works of Baltensperger + Siepert are characterised by methods of poly-authorship. This project is a setup in which the local production partners become essential authors of the work.