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Be Aware, Pussycats!
Data:
28 June, 2023
Louise Pons
48 Stunden Neukölln
Your park, your market, your square
they're coming for it
meow meow.
After a feroceous outing in a video segment entitled "Pussycat Dictators", Louse Pons invited me to once again don one of her hilariously frightening cat masks, this time for an intervention in public space for the 48 Stunden Neukölln festival. We appeared in three locations in the district suddenly and marched around, before cordoning off an area and marking our new territory with yellow spray chalk, before exiting just as mysteriously.
Post-Europe Orbital Service Station
Data:
27 & 30 May, 2022
WestGermany/NorthEurope
FCDU
Stop at this space lounge
for a slice of cake and Cyrano
on your escape from a dying planet
I donned an excessive amount of blue makeup for this selection of vignettes in a foam-lined WestGermany evoking '70s futurism, with medieval wild people, melting national monuments, experiments in space, Cyrano de Bergerac, and several video ads for aliens. My main contribution was filming and editing one such segment with '90s-style aesthetics and '60s-quality practial effects.
FUTURE WIFE
Data:
11 May, 2022
Berliner Festspiele
Marie Schleef
Stückemarkt
A killing line on which
the only hope for woman or goat
is love before the knife.
A staged reading of a new play by Ruth Tang, in which a goat and a human woman negotiate their convential relationship and reproductive politics in an abstract world of Marxist pirates, Marie Antoinettes [sic] playing peasant, and revolutionary goats.
Beginning at lively Kottbusser Tor, Wieland Lemke and I played Anubis-headed guardians of the temple of the Agentur für Arbeit, the German Federal Employment Agency, and led the audience into WestGermany to see extraterrestrials arrive to provide the solution to elderly unemployment.
Once upon a time, a little old British lady decided to use newfangled technology to do her shopping. Sascha Poeflepp set two rudimenary chatbots to haggle over the contents of that purchase in a video installation pivoting around an innocuous watershed moment, to examine where the Digital Age has come, and where it's going. In this second instantiation (a re-recreation of that moment), he asked me to read the resultant text, generated in four degrees of 'associativity', in both English and German for the exhibition at Kunsthalle Rostock.
What is Space?
Data:
1–16 February, 2019
BTK
Helin Ulas
Plus Minus – Bachelor & Master Exhibition
Extension or emptiness
what can philosophers and machines
encompass?
For her Master's thesis, Helin Ulas entered philosophical texts about space into a simple machine learning algorithm, which predicted text character by character. For her installation, I read the input texts alongside the output ones on several CRT TVs; though much of the generated text was clearly nonsensical, the distinction between the two was hardly as clear-cut as one might have imagined…