PINK.PONK.SLOW

My performances "pink.ponk.loud" or "Stunts No. 1-5" form a separate group of works in my artistic oeuvre.  This began in 2007 when I was invited by the Kunsthalle Basel to create a performance for an opening. There was something liberating and authentic about me singing and dancing in front of over 400 people, celebrating my femininity and my fears, twirling pink polystyrene guitars around me and destroying them all at the end. The audience jeered and applauded enthusiastically. I then decided to continue these performances and from then on called this series "Stunts". The content of each stunt is based on a specific concept that is derived from my everyday life: Thoughts about femininity, art, work, efficiency, insecurity. From this, I create an instruction for myself. Inherent in this score is always the challenge for me to exceed the limits of my own physical ability. I therefore have to charmingly overcome my fear in every performance in order to fulfil this task at all - and in public. I design my own costumes for each stunt, with matching make-up and props. The scenographic setting is also very important to me as an aesthetic setting. 

With "pink.ponk.slow." it's the challenge of skateboarding: I can't skateboard. However, part of the score of this happening is that I ride very slowly, to the beat of the music - which makes it all the more difficult to keep my physical balance. The possibility of failure constantly surrounds me. I face this presumed moment with as much charm as possible and constantly try to embrace it by helping myself to keep my balance with a broom and, incidentally, gallantly blurring the line of pink pigment on the floor that I actually want to follow. The time frame varies: certain stunts are very short. Others take as long as it takes to fulfil the task I've been set. Since the first stunt in Basel, many more have followed: at the Kunstverein Freiburg, Kunstraum Riehen, Gallery Tart Art Zurich, Meinblau Berlin, Warteck pp in Basel. I really like these happenings.