Title: A
Duration: approximately 3 Hours
Mixmedia
Date: 12.11.2016
Faith and Terror Performance Art Festival, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin
Description:
Artist’s body is chained two arms up in the air, naked with a scarf on his head.
A lot of different locks, closes the chains.
On the floor there are full of aluminum foil crumpled into many balls.
On one wall hangt three objects:
- one saw,
- a box of picking tools,
- a paper written “you might find keys in crumpled balls”
On another wall, hangt a package, written ICE on top.
A text about the piece (on the program sheet)
Action reacts to reaction, to have a conversation. He may realize it in a personal context, through how he gives back the angle of viewing, and putting the body (in)to it. Being trapped, and limiting the actions, as one response; struggle or give up as one choice. Stay, as “urban as jungle” traps the body; as the roses around the castle to protect Aurora; or the chain keeps Andromeda from running. It wants to filter out the right and wrong gestures (if there are) to free the princesses, interaction is forming a view between one and the prince.
No other instruction
Photo credits: Delphine Marinier /Ilya Noé
Postscript:
Audience actively began searching the aluminum balls, very soon, they released my arms one hour later.
Someone try to cut one lock with the say, failed.
Many people try lock-picking, none succeeded.
A woman convinced others to help her, to change my position to take my foot-lock off. She succeeded.
After 3 hours, only the lock of my neck is left.
Another woman decide to open the “ICE” package, found all the backup keys and combinations, and unlock the last one.
P.s. ICE = in case of emergency
P.s. A stands for the princess Aurora and Andromeda
