PERFORMANCES

The performances realized up to now deal with several aspects of the experience of violence.

PURGATORIO:
The act of self purification by washing is drawn absurd by using a towel which is soaked with blood. This leads to an endless circle of self soiling an purification.
(Dresden, 2002)

KRIEGSKRAGEN (WAR COLLAR):
An early baroque collar, a so called „millstone collar“, decorated with structures from Schütz´s manuscripts and Jacques Callot´s series of etchings „The terrors of War“ is shown to the public as a strip of paper which is formed to a collar after and laid around the artist´s neck. Meanwhile, the music of Schütz´s „German Magnificat SWV 494“ can be heared.
(Bad Köstritz, 2002)

musikalisches.opfer (musical.sacrifice):
Accompanied by music of Carlo Gesualdo, madonna lilies (Lilium Candidum) are wrapped with gold cord and, thus, as well sacred as destroyed.
(Bad Boll, during the Festival of Church Music, Schwäbisch Gmuend

Schwanengesang (Swan´s song):
The performance developed within the framework of the „Swan´s Song Project“ materializes by using embroidery with (first invisibly blood soaked) gold cord a Saint Veronica´s veil of Cord and blood drips.