T-Shirts for Kaliningrad
On clothes are no cyrillic letters - that is my first impression in Kaliningrad. I collect graffitis written on buildings and print the messages on white T-shirts. I sell them on a little market. People like the quality of the fabric and welcome me at their spot. I enjoy to sit with them and chat to potential customers.
on the market in Kaliningrad
Deposit bottle distribution
How can artistic approach take responsibility for society? That is the question of the festival “Art of Survival” awarded by the house of the cultures of the world in Berlin. I take part with a field research to subcultural and official evaluation of values. What is worth to be trash and why? I collect various voices with interviews of both sides and establish use-sculptures in parks to exchange empty deposit bottles. They are symbolic points of exchange. The benefit: recognizing this strategy of value creation and avoid that people have to grab their arms into trash can.
floating
I float with a inflatable helmet along a little river in Berlin.
swing
Before the renovation of a building artists move in. I am a subtenant and install a swing between livingroom and balcony. I move between inside and outside
“alles muss raus”
everything has to go
I invite to an exhibition. All works exhibited are free to take away. I am interested in who is choosing which piece and why if it is disconnected from the economy of money. People respond to my offer with interest and pick their piece of art. There are only a few drawings without any resonance. intersections of minds get evident. In the end of the party the space is a white cube with a few things nobody wants to deal with.
coffee party
collaborative work together with Ute Ringel, painter
A choir with more than 40 singers visits the house of my friend Ute. Wec ollect all available chairs of the family and arrange them in a long row in the ground floor. The circle links all rooms there. We ask everyone to take a seat and stay silently while having a cup of coffee and cake. People pass around plates and cups until everyone is served. After coffee we wait for an impulse to sing a serenade for Utes mother. In three rooms different groups start different songs delayed in time. They try to fall into harmony, fall apart again. Afterwards people report that is has been a intense encounter though they know each other for so long time.
empty pool
In an empty swimming pool rainwater has collected by time. It is pumped into blue garbage bags. They look like a herd of giant drops.
