Performance presented for the exibition "Kunst am Bau", GASAG, Berliner Gaswerke Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin 28.1.2005

"The performance "Living spot" takes place on the 5th flour of a business building. The area for the performance serves normally as a passage area. The front side is glass. The area is filled up to the cover with white ballons. the artist dressed in business style let More than 1500 ballons burst by using hands, feet and the whole body. Only aid is a pencil. The area, which remains inconspicuous in the office everyday life, is now noticed in a new way by the artist and the viewers: visually, accustically and haptically. The balloons are quasi empty cases. The area is doubled and reflects itselve in this renewed filling from air (its own air), in small spatial units. Units, partitionings by breath-thin and high-tension diaphragm. The respiratory volume of the area did not change. No new air was brought in or taken away and anyhow the subject cannot breathe any longer."

1500 white ballons, amplifier, Soundmixer, 4 Boxes, 4 microphones, headset microphone, costüme

45 min

Video und Photos
Camera: Andreas Dammertz
Fotos: Christian Hoppe