Being invited to a „Blind-Date“ I passed the invite to some friends, artists and non-artists. Our main questions are: What practices (performances) we have to develop to ruin (false) social peace? How could life look like when the position of bodies in shared space wouldn’t be divided in private and public? How may we attack the distribution of identities and still create a common perspective? And finally: Is it possible to think about the world without speaking about qualities?
Out of these questions we developed a performance that uses the spectacle as medium, where each individual performer or better his/her image is the centre point. We used the completely vacant space of the museum. In consequence of the absence of a scenario and the circulation of the performers the trigger point is the relationship to audiences. The community of performers is on view to the community of the audiences. After a long silence one of the viewers starts a discussion with the one who is on view. Here, one could say the exhibition begins, since the communication starts, but on the other-hand one could also say the performance ends here, since the partition of the communities is broken open at this point, at least for some time. Originating from a community of viewers, the person who decides to be on view as well excludes him or herself from the group. Later the viewers then move away from him/her, watches again and moves on to another performer. Through the course of the discussion, which revolves around the responsibility of the viewer‘s gaze, the person who became the subject of the performance returns to his original community.

In cooperation with

Franziska Buddrus,

Armin Ceric,

Ebrahim Hardan,

Rosemary Heather,

Olaf Hochherz,

Florian Kempf,

Achim Riethmann,

Sergio Roger,

Christina Tivemark