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Anstoss (kick-off)

2nd Performance Art Festival, Schloss Salzau, D-Kiel 2006 Duration 10 minutes

 

Description of action Three parts of a soccer ball made of leather are laying in the middle of the room. Dressed with a suit and a tie I bind with adhesive tape the leather pieces around my head and stand up. With my two clenched fists I beat strongly two times on my breast a show the audience the gesture of a winner. I hold my head-soccer-ball with my two hands tight. After a moment I unhand my head, the head-ball falls to the ground and tip a few times around until he starts rolling. For this I roll myself on the floor until I have reached the audience. Random I take a feet of a vistor and lead it to my head, give like this a kick to the ball-head. I roll over the floor to another visitor and repeat the action a few times. I stand up and shower myself with water that I pour out of a bucket and lay down into the puddle. My body jerks like a fish on land and stay motionless on the floor.

 

Photos: Yingmei Duan and Patrick Gaden

 


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