The figurine emerges within a randomly programmed time limit and spits brown liquid (optionally into a collecting container). At one side of the cuckoo clock is a peep box, containing a gloomy setting. The cuckoo clock is placed on a specially designed wallpaper with patterns of ornamentally arranged fabulous creatures.
The artistic examination of this project takes place in a kind of documentation that tries to present the course of the experiment thus far.
An endurance performance in the search for MARLENE MORGENSTERN.
During the exhibition, I position myself with a laptop, the appropriate software and a headset at my desk in the gallery. From the Leipzig phonebook by all, I have the non-private numbers blackened, I call the remaining numbers. I open the conversation with “Good day Mr. XY, I would like to speak to Marlene Morgenstern.” The numbers I manage to reach are then marked green in my phone book.
The goal of this performance is a continuous intervention, which penetrates through the medium of telephone for a brief moment into the everyday life of an unknown person.
MARLENE MORGENSTERN was not found …
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a selection of the telephone recording
Sundry persons from within my closer environment were given the task to take a picture of me according to their very own ideas and fantasies. The only prompt: I had to be naked. After the session, one photograph was meant to be selected and provided with a title as well as a short text. Thus, 18 unique stories came into being.
general survey
*1980 in Frankenberg/Saxony
2011 Diploma
2006 – 2011 Intermedia Class of Prof. Alba D’Urbano
2004 – 2006 Studies in Media Arts, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2003 Leonardo da Vinci programme in Estonia
1999 – 2002 Apprenticeship as a media designer
2012 »Betriebsausflug« Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg
2011 »Jeunesse dorée« tamtamART, Berlin
2011 »Gott und die Welt« HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2010 »Touch me!« Galerie Sylvia Bernhardt, Wiesbaden
2010 »Schrei-Eine LiveSkypePerformance mit Sophie Stephan« HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and L’Mono Bilbao (ESP)
2010 »Chain of Fools« HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2009 »Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen« District Court, Leipzig
2008 »Introspections« Doppel De, Dresden
2008 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Designhaus Darmstadt
2008 »100% Health« art-gallery of HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2007 5. Wiesbadener Fototage, Büchergilde Gutenberg, Wiesbaden
2006 »Schnittstellen« Kunstraum Kuhturm, Leipzig
2006 »Wunderland« art-gallery of HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig