kate hers

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kate hers contemplates the Hegelian concept of the evolution of consciousness from self-perception to absolute knowledge. One video work suggests an intimate meeting in front of a sublime landscape between two seemingly incongruent entities. In the other work, she takes up the interrogation of nationhood intending to examine aspects of identity that are bound up with language, while enabling another kind of  “Other,” to facilitate integration into Germanic society. Both pieces attempt to intersect Hegel’s notion of Other with Edward Said’s post-colonial term.