• Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]
  • Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]
  • Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]
  • Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]
  • Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]
  • Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]
  • Anča Daučíková: Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness]

Portrait of a Woman with Institution – Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick with Zweisamkeit [Togetherness], video, 13 m 15 s, German with English subtitles, 2011

Muda Mathis (b. 1959) and Sus Zwick (b. 1950) have a joint artistic practice mainly involving performance, video and installation. They are founder members of the band Les Reines Prochaines together with Michèle Fuchs, Fränzi Madörin and Barbara Nägelin and founder members of the studio collective VIA, Basel.

We are friends since 1994 and have exhibited and travelled together several times. I appreciate and admire the consistency their understanding of feminism as a political idea and an everyday practice. Their realism has a strong sense of humour. The role of laughter in daily life — especially the kind of laughter they cultivate — reminds me of what Mikhail Bakhtin was talking about in Rabelais and His World. The portrait puts them in the context of their own long-lasting and productive relationship. I think it all has to do with good old lesbian culture.