Some works

Lost to regain - The Hike
First travel report - performative reading with backdrops
in the Kunstraum Innsbruck on 3 September 2016

From 5 June to 29 July 2016 I went from Jena via Leipzig and Berlin to Rostock. On this hike I collected image materials and stories. Parallel to the action I reported weekly on my blog site - the communication with the audience was an essential part of this work.
Four of my alter egos from the future also reported to word during the hike.The hike and blogs are the main line for the "Lost to regain" cycle. See Working.
In the reading I assembled real events, excerpts from the communication with the audience and parts of the blog contributions of the fictional characters into a text.
Sketches, photographs and videos, hanging before painted backdrops, formed the installation background for this reading.

Video Excerpts from the reading, Kunstraum Innsbruck

The Red Thread through the labyrinth
Hiking performance and art procession
Der rote Faden durchs Labyrinth/The Red Thread through Labyrinth - for the exhibition 70 years of Tiroler Künstlerschaft on 14. September 2016
Curated by Georgia Holz and Barbara Mahlknecht

The exhibition 70 years of Tiroler Künstlerschaft took place in three houses of the association. My job was to lead the audience from opening to opening. I strew a red line out of chili, a march-music accompanied us. In front of the galleries and at an additional station on my way, I recited poetic texts -they told us about the (idealistic) art production, corresponding to the occasion of the anniversery.
I accompanied the lecture by positioning small plastic toys on two prepared pedestal- objects. I then asked two people from the audience to carry the pedestal-objects.
To the video on Vimeo

Video The Red Thread through the Labyrinth

The Second Attempt  – Reset –
Performative action for a video
Galerie A4, Innsbruck 2013/14

Action to paint over a globe on New Year´s Eve 2013/2014. Maria Peters and Gunter Bakay paint over all the names, places, countries, national borders and other labels invented by man on a globe.
A poetic guesture.
Go to video on Vimeo.com

Video The Second Attempt - Reset -

Michel Houellebecq Talks to Sigmar Polke / Salon
Performance, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck 06.03. 2012

Reading performance with songs for the opening of the new event format “Salon” organized by the Tiroler Künstlerschaft.
The performance took place within the spatial installation Résidence Modulaire by Vienna-based artist Rainer Prohaska, which he designed for events in the context of his exhibition project.
I performed a text-montage on the theme “Salon”, comprising quotations and my own texts. Musical accompaniment: Christoph Rösl (tenor) and Stefan Neuner (guitar) with 18^th century songs.

The West-Eastern Divan
Reading performance, Galerie Artdepot, Premierentage Innsbruck 04.11.2011

A text-montage of historical and my own texts was performed against the background of a sound collage I had composed myself. I read the quotations directly from books, and fetched my own texts from a line previously mounted in the space, some drawings and small plastic horses were arranged in breaks between readings, or I cut open fruit (pomegranate and figs).
Go to text-montage (German)

The Endless Novel
Interactive book production with concluding reading, Galerie A4, Premierentage Innsbruck 05. - 09.12.2010

At the beginning, there were 50 sentences on a board on the wall. The audience took over the role of a random generator; by drawing numbers they chose one of the sentences, which was then placed, using the computer, according to the order drawn on the page of a book. When a page was full, I printed it on the reverse of pre-prepared sheets, already illustrated on one side.
The resulting text-montage was performed in the form of a reading at the concluding event of the Premierentage.
Go to text-montage (German)

Winter War in Tibet - I and the Others

Writing performance to open my exhibition in the Stadtturmgalerie of the Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck 2007

This gallery (which no longer exists today) had a display window onto a much-frequented inner courtyard in Innsbruck's old city. During the opening I began to fill the walls with writing. The public could watch me from both the inner courtyard and from the second gallery room (this was separated off using a thick transparent film) but they could not speak to me. I had minimalist camping equipment with me and worked and lived in the gallery for three days and two nights - until the walls were completely covered in writing.

Video still, self-taken while cooking in the gallery, 2007