LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS

Rahman Hak-Hagir, Iris Poljan – DIE WAFFEN NIEDER / LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS (2018)
„A performative View on Human Cohesion and the Weight of Responsibility,
– and an Artistic Homage on Bertha von Suttner.“

Concept & Art-Direction:
RAHMAN HAK-HAGIR
IRIS POLJAN

Performers:
IRIS POLJAN
ALINA FERRUFINO
ANDREAS DRAXLER
CELJKA PANIC
JOZIP PANIC
ADRIAN PANIC
VANESSA PANIC

Camera & Postproduction:
RAHMAN HAK-HAGIR

Music:
MIT LEICHTEM SCHRITT / With light step (1905)
Militärkapelle / Military March

Date / Location:
28TH OCTOBER, 2018
VIENNA, AUSTRIA

IRIS POLJAN (born in Zagreb, on 5th May 1989) gratuadetd in Graphic Design at the School of Applied Arts and went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, at the Fine Arts Education department. In 2011 she completed the undergraduate study program and received the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education degree. Iris Poljan is a founding member of the international artist collectives known as #WE and The Other Society.

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Countess Kinsky, Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905 she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903) the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her novel DIE WAFFEN NIEDER! (Lay down your arms!), and the first Austrian laureate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner

DIE WAFFEN NIEDER / LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS – HD VIDEOPERFORMANCE | 3:38 mins.