‘Anger is a liquid’ negotiates the connection between gender and emotion. In three chapters the work deals with the topic of ‘female anger’ from different perspectives: In ‘Medusa‘s monologue’, the historical legendary figure of Medusa tells of her history in an open letter to her rage and appears as the matriarchal protective goddess of angry women by repeatedly pouring oil on the fire. In ‘Vectors’, two young women perform an exercise taken over from anti-aggression training, which is intended to make the physical affects of rage tangible. The final chapter ‘Anger is like liquid’ is a reflection on anger as a metaphorical expression in language.
Lilian Robl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, the Ecole de recherche graphique Brussels and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and attained her MFA in 2019. Her video works were shown internationally at Athens International Digital Film Festival (GR); Athens AnimFest (GR); FILE electronic language festival, São Paulo (BR); ALC videoart festival, Alicante (ES); hungry eyes festival, Gießen (DE); KMMN Kunstfilmtage, Kassel (DE); Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, Bogotá (CO); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH); Kunstverein Marburg (DE); Kunstverein Munich (DE); Vorwerkstift Hamburg (DE), galerie weisser elefant, Berlin (DE); Lothringer13 Halle, Munich (DE) and at the research station Neumayer III in Antarctica. She has been invited as an Artist in Residence to Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst; Goethe institute russia; Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme, France and RIFT London. Lilian Robl lives and works in Munich and Berlin.
