Public Trips
PUBLIC Trips
Public Trips are invitations into another world. You are invited to join a moment with more than human bodies in time. Through sound, images, and involving all of the senses, you are guided into an experience of a mystical union of high politicality. These public rituals began with Verbarium: A Trip @Droste Festival of Burg Hülshoff in 2023. Since then I have followed the series in loose order.
ROTE EIER Public Ritual on the occasion of the Opening of Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden May 7th 2024
ROTE EIER (RED EGGS)
The ADA is offering a container full of treasures, a treasure block in the middle of Dresden. With the block in its middle, it has a hermetic but still accessible structure. New versions of what happened before can be brought to life via exchange and study. We were wishing The AdA luck with one of the oldest symbols of fertility in the world, the egg. We offered a collective gift with and through the public. Like John Cage, who is part of the opening exhibition, used chance operations like the oracle book of the I Ging, we used the egg as an oracle. A simple invitation to dream together was offered.
ROTE EIER @Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden
Preparation of the Ritual
RAIN OF THE EYES.
@Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, May 23rd - Jun 30th 2024
Invitation to a Sound Walk as part of RAIN OF THE EYES on the occasion of “Das Gesicht des Wanderers”
RAIN OF THE EYES are tears. We cry when we see nature fall apart. Nature is failing us now as an ontology. This ontology was perfected in the times of C.D. Friedrich. Positioning the viewer above the landscape, Friedrich showed human estrangement of the earth’s bodies, distancing human bodies from other bodies of the earth. RAIN OF THE EYES worked with historical charts, the birth chart of C.D. Friedrich, and invited to a sound walk outside, facing planetary bodies. Let the tears flow.
turning the tide - you never step in the same river twice
@Zentralwäscherei, ZHDK Zürich, Oct 5, 2023
Water
… comes from outer space, just like the rest of earth. We are stardust. Connectivity with moving bodies in space can be informed by different means. Different groups formulated statements of how to work from in accordance with different moving bodies from now on. The statements were written down on a large piece of paper, glasses filled with water placed on the spells that were formulated like this. A water glas concert followed at the end of which we drank the newly informed water.
We are water bodies.
Water is emotion.
Water is history.
The water of earth is ancient.
Water is cogniscient.
Water can be informed.
Human Bodies are containers of water.
We build new water containers in forming our bodies in new ways.
We are forming a collective water body informing our system on a subconscious level.
DRAGON
Tidal time is changing time. Every living body is a water body. We invited people to join their water bodies with the water body of the Limmat. The Limmat being the river coming from a glacier further up the mountains, flowing through the Zürich Lake towards the north. It's name come from the lindworm, a dragon figure that was always and in many places on earth connected to water bodies sitting on the top of the mountian in form of ice. Melting the ice the water comes down. Melting your facade, liquid might run from your eyes. Walking in silence after bathing and breathing with the Limmat was a meditation in action.
OFFERING
At the end we formed a dragon out of the large piece of paper and brought it back to the Limmat. Lindworm meeting Lindworm. Turning The Tide ran from dusk till dawn.