RUIN YOUR LIFE (2024) performance and video installation, English and German, 5-6 hours How can a life be summed up? As an inspiring success story or a romantic comedy, a heroic struggle, a huge disappointment or just completely fucked up? If not earlier, it becomes crystal clear at our eulogy which of our decisions, which […]
hustle / idle
HUSTLE / IDLE (2024) HD video, 16:45 min, color, sound, no spoken dialog, text inserts in two versions: English only or English and German alternating A performative, analog loop revolves around the opposing verbs “to hustle” (to be industrious, to hurry, to attain something illegally, to do sex work) and “to idle” (to laze around, […]
substitute activities
SUBSTITUTE ACTIVITIES is a series of ten short videos, created in collaboration with Ensemble Sanfte Arbeit / Elsa Artmann, Samuel Duvoisin, Diana Treder, Anne-Lene Nöldner, Annie Bloch, Lili M. Rampre (2023/24) The videos of the series focus on transient moments in the work processes of performers: the training, the trial and error, the (artistic) research, […]
crying and lying
CRYING AND LYING (2023) performance with video, German, 30 min “My mother cried for forty days and forty nights. As long as I have known her, I have known her to cry. I used to think that I would grow up to be a different sort of woman, that I would not cry, and that […]
feel what you’re feeling
FEEL WHAT YOU’RE FEELING (2022) 2K video, 16:9, 18:00 min, color, sound When you dream of realizing your potential, do you dream of pouring it out, spooning it out, scraping it out, or rather spreading it out like a folded blanket? I have a rich inner life and run a profitable inner mining operation. The […]
just want you to be
JUST WANT YOU TO BE (2021) HD video, 15:52 min, color, sound “The promise of happiness acquires an even more powerful hold in times of crisis.” Just Want You To Be collages the idiosyncratic archive of personal mobile phone videos to connect individual moments of ordinary affect (driving with granny, teenagers at a fun ride, […]
like you really mean it
LIKE YOU REALLY MEAN IT (2020) 4K video, 12:45 min, color, sound Three characters – the Workshop Leader, the Tracksuit and the Naked Ape – find themselves unexpectedly in a workshop in the middle of Death Valley. They are trying their best to give each other advice, but are mostly limited to repeating what they […]
men and me
MEN AND ME (2019) performance, 20 min The auto-fictional solo “Men and me” starts with several confessions by the performer. With an ambiguously distorted voice she recounts her childhood misconceptions of the male anatomy, growing up without a father, her relationship with her mother and failed pubescent developmental stages. During the second part two psychoanalytical […]
don’t we all
DON’T WE ALL (2017) lecture performance, 18 min, live-cam, teleprompter Just to let you know, before I start: I am here as the cover band and will more or less play the greatest hits. You will quickly realize, you’ve heard it all before, but that is exactly the beauty of it. Repetition and routine can […]
studio hallo
STUDIO HALLO (2018) 4 part video series, HD, color, sound all episodes at www.studiohallo.de People say: “When something like STUDIO HALLO pops up, it can come as a shock or as some kind of wake-up call. Or it can be a scene of sheer pleasure – an unnamed condensation of thought and feeling. Or an […]