Performance an der Estnischen Kunstakademie Tallinn im Rahmen der Performance Art Studies #62
I come slowly into the room with a cutted plastic-shadow of my body, it is taped on under my feet. If I go forwards to the audience my body is erect and I can‘t see the shadow behind me. In front of the audience I stop and move backwards. While I can see the shadow I go into these postures the shadow shows me. This changes with every single step until I reach the wall behind me. From here I go forwards again and step by step I get a straight body position
So I walk a few times forwards erect and backwards in this twisted postures. At the same time I move through the room to the wall opposite the door where I came in.
There I find a scissor and now I start to cut away parts of the shadow approximately from top to bottom (hands, arms, head, upper body, legs). I adjust my postures to the shadow.
After cutting the last part of the shadow I fall down on the floor.
Since my birth my body has always a shadow in the light.
This shadow follows me all the time.
But since my birth my soul also has got shadows from the experience of life.
I can‘t see these shadows but feel them.
Sometimes.
Sometimes the soul-shadow is stronger than me
and I have to follow it.
Or follow him?
Maybe he is a living thing?
Fotos: Monika Deimling
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