Anna McCarthy: The Hills Have Crazy Eyes – Woman in a Landscape

“The Hills Have Crazy Eyes – Woman in a Landscape” by Anna McCarthy is a poetic-philosophical work that, in its search for change and healing, juxtaposes the structures of violence against women with humanity’s interaction with nature. It is an assemblage of fragments of personal experience and quotations in German and English, narrated through the history of the perception of nature and mountaineering, and accompanied by sketches, drawings, and paintings created during McCarthy’s own en plein air mountaineering expeditions. The book is the second part of a dilogy. The first volume, Trickles & Oozes, is an anthology of drawings depicting melting figures. Both books relate to the performance The Hills Have Crazy Eyes, which premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele in May 2024.