Street

Video – 2007
HDV, 6.02 min

In Street, nine guerrilla performances are carried out in public spaces across Berlin and documented through video and photography. Each performance takes a fundamental human right as its starting point and humorously challenges it through absurd actions, such as staging a real bank robbery with a banana, visiting the Mercedes-Benz headquarters blindfolded while carrying an oversized fabric penis, or acting as a prehistoric woman in Berlin Zoo who emits strange, gurgling noises while confronting and chasing visitors. Other performances include a bikini-clad figure quoting Hitler’s infamous speeches while covered in chocolate pudding, attempting to breach the Reichstag.

The performances reference historical events while critiquing the blatant structures of consumer society and its battlefields. Using human rights as a pretext, they expose the gap between law and action in the eyes of the observer, highlighting the contradictions inherent in modern societal norms.

EXHIBITIONS

S: Solo Exhibition | G: Group Exhibition | Sc: Screening

YES: Rachelle Beaudoin / Nadja Verena Marcin, Microscope Gallery, New York, 2017 (G)
The days of this society are numbered, Abrons Arts Center, New York, 2011 (G)
Artist Talk, Deutsche Boerse Residency, Kunstverein Frankfurt, 2011 (G)
Open Studios, International Studies and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, 2010 (G)
Short-term deviation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2010 (G)

EXHIBITIONS

Kauno Biennal TEXTILE’09, Picture Gallery, National Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania, curated by Virginija Vitkienė, 2009
INDISCIPLINES, Villa Arson, Nice, France, 2009
International Video Art Festival, Athens, Greek, 2008
FIFA, Festival pour film sur l’art, Montreal, Canada, 2008
Vidéothèque Ephémère, 23rd New Media and Video Art Festival, Clermont Ferrant, France, 2008
Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania, 2008

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