63 fairs. The economic benefit is almost always given priority over intellectual needs and works, and the remuneration of artists is often linked to possible profit, which leads to a severe imbalance. She tries to bring these discriminatory mechanisms into the public eye and demands fair wages for all and especially for female artists. In the case of the wall tattoos, the focus is less on the finished work than on the process of creation and the work in it: a moment of artistic creation that is rarely visible. Using the cutout technique, the artist cuts spiraling patterns that stretch out from monochrome film. The focus is on the day-to-day changes and production of the installation, thus showing parallels to the constantly increasing productivity in our fast-paced society. The project has already been shown in three Austrian cities (Vienna, Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Munich in Germany) since 2019, whereby the process and the creation of the wall installation had a different outcome each time, only the ‘way’ to get there remained the same. During the two-month CUTOUT wall tattoo performance at Karlsplatz in Vienna, the artist literally transformed into the animal she was depicting, also acting as such and thereby achieving a certain curiosity and low threshold for art. It is particularly important for LOITZL to take up complex topics through the “Monkey”, to treat them performatively, so that transparency and accessibility become possible. At the performance on Karlsplatz in Vienna, Salzburg and Klagenfurt and Munich, she also always showed a film about the precarious situation of artists and thus tried to openly communicate these important topics that are often kept secret in the art scene. In this socio-political discourse, questions arise, such as “Can a wo*man actually live from art?” or “What is too much of unpaid work?” because many are struggling with similar problems seems to be a major concern. To unite and fight against it together would certainly be wishful thinking that would simplify the well-known situation. Together we are stronger! PAULA MARSCHALEK art historian, cultural manager
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