forteresse

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Performance
migma Performancetage, Kunsthalle Luzern, 12. 11. 2010
Who Is Afraid of Performance Art?, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art contemporain Genf, 17. 11. 2011
PerformanceProcess, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017
ca. 30'
Clay, rope

forteresse, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017. Video: Claudia Bach

fortress — A fortress made out of more than one tonne of clay conceals me from view. 
The white cord that spirals around the outside was pushed inside through a hole in the clay at the bottom of the tower. I pull on it – and the cord cuts through the damp clay. Seen from outside, it is like an animated line. The ­amorphous building is structured in the form of lines or scars that are instantly healed by the weight of the clay. The clay yields, ­changes shape until I have to leave the fortress and 
it collapses. Slowly, ­lethargically the structure caves in, pressing against the cord or giving in to its pressure.

<i>forteresse</i>, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art contemporain Genf, 17. 11. 2011. Photo: Dorothee Thebert

forteresse, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art contemporain Genf, 17. 11. 2011. Photo: Dorothee Thebert

forteresse, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art contemporain Genf, 17. 11. 2011. Photo: Dorothee Thebert

<i>forteresse</i>, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art contemporain Genf, 17. 11. 2011. Photo: Dorothee Thebert

forteresse, Le Commun, Bâtiment d’art contemporain Genf, 17. 11. 2011. Photo: Dorothee Thebert

<i>forteresse</i>, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017. Photo: Daniel Spehr<br>

forteresse, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017. Photo: Daniel Spehr

<i>forteresse</i>, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017. Photo: Daniel Spehr

forteresse, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017. Photo: Daniel Spehr

forteresse, Museum Tinguely Basel, 19. 9. 2017. Photo: Daniel Spehr