Interdisciplinary Artist
Social practice artists: "freely blur the lines among object making, performance, political activism, community organising, environmentalism and investigative journalism, creating a deeply participatory art that often flourishes outside the gallery and museum system" (Lingo, Elizabeth L. and Tepper, Steven J (2013), 'Looking Back, Looking Forward: Arts-Based Careers and Creative Work,' in Work and Occupations 40(4) 337-363.)
Own Projects
(selected)
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Near Future Scenario
Research Project and novel 2005- ongoing
A research-intensive near-future scenario and suburban drama following a the lives of a family living in the Western suburbs. The story follows an intimate and very personal, local and domestic view of the way members of the family cope (or don't) with the upcoming challenges of the end of the oil age.
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Wishes for Wedding
Audio Installation Performance Project
Galerie Wedding,ACROSS MOVEMENT, Berlin 2022
The public spectacle was created from the sound material the artist collected from vox populi interviews with residents and workers in Berlin-Wedding about their wishes for the district. These wishes make up the basis of rhythmic sound pieces to which cyclist acrobats perform a colourful, geometric choreography as a magic ritual as part of the ACROSS fesitval, Galerie Wedding
Performers: Lauren van Vuuren, Bridget Hines, performers from the Spandau Cycling Club; costumes: Sarah Ama Duah
Action Girls
Berlin schools video and sport project, 2010. initiator, trainer, director
Parkour, acrobatics, acting and film with 13-16 year old girls in 3 Berlin schools. Resulting in 4 student-devised short films, produced by Platypus Theater, funded by Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung
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Freelancer
Gesamtkunstwerk, performance spectacle 2001
Multi-media interdisciplinary performance: socially critical narrative-based performance piece with dialogue, live music, acrobatics and projections for eight performers. Initially performed as a piece in Rathhaus Schöneberg, then sized up for the Staatsbank, Berlin – the former East German State Bank – where the performance filled the main hall while the surrounding rooms became lounge and installation spaces with sound, performance and object installations as a contemporary circus with side shows.
About and PRESS
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Work & Support
Performance, text, acrobatics, singing, projections, 2000
Performance pieces for four performers and projections.
UndabdiePost 2000 Festival for Young Experimental Art, Berlin.
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The performance pieces 'Work' and 'Support' made issue of economic systems and their deeply personal impacts, leading to the performance spectacle 'Freelancer'.
