Random Hall Performance
Datum
Performance appearance Intro
with a camerawoman and 2 viewers
8 Lot für nichts, ein Performanceabend in einer Fabrikhalle, 1996
The idea for this performance originated in 1995 and was spontaneously premiered in 1996. It was a wet late winter day, and I anticipated that few spectators would attend. Indeed, a couple newly in love arrived—and that was it.
The performance 8 Lot utilizes stock market terminology from futures trading to describe the prospects of the impossible in our lives and on Earth, thereby going short.
That was simply not an issue for the naive, dreamy Düsseldorf-Cologne art scene, which constantly looked to America and knew how to completely separate such things. “Stock market traders buy art, although the good ones are only on Wall Street, okay, a few are also in the City of London, but it’s clear that we don’t make these people the subject of art—Mr. Olsowski, we’ll end up talking about money.” I was simply no longer consistent enough to cause anything inevitably registrable on the Richter scale – at least that’s my conclusion from that time.
Artistically speaking, however, it was groundbreaking for me. Please don’t forget that all of this flowed out of me spontaneously; I don’t learn texts in advance, or make things up, nor do I paint something rehearsed. What I want to find in rehearsals are concepts, frameworks on which fresh ideas can swing. That’s why I quite like this short intro – unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties with sound and image recording, so only fragments of this overhead projector performance remain.
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