in Coming Together in Parts - film program
Chapter II: Hijack the Future
September 6, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Museum Brandhorst
Theresienstr. 35A
80333 Munich

Yong Xiang Li’s I’m Not in Love (How to Feed on Humans) is a combination of narrative film, romantic comedy, and music video. Through collaborative approaches and the freedom of DIY and low-budget production, it dusts off the negative lore of vampirism: Vampy—a 386-year-old vampire—strolls through the city in broad daylight. Instead of bloodthirsty transformation, his bite promises pleasure and long life. In Vampy’s symbiotic and polyamorous companionship with his three human lovers, the work questions the mechanisms of becoming monster and notions of love in a present characterized by hegemonies and dependencies.

Located in the media room on the lower level of Museum Brandhorst, the film program Coming Together in Parts responds to and extends the themes of the exhibition Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s—in terms of media, time, and content. Coming Together in Parts presents video works by artists who deal with the interaction of bodies and technologies as well as alternative narratives of the future.

Chapter I: Carriers | June 2 – September 4, 2022
Jill Magid, Sondra Perry, Jeamin Cha

Chapter II: Hijack the Future | September 6, 2022 – January 8, 2023
Sophia Al-Maria, Masha Godovannaya, Yong Xiang Li

Curated by Franziska Linhardt