Blind Land

A black pool appears in contrast to two performers dressed all in white. 6 sound showers play a sound scape from above, in which the voices of the performers monologuing and dialoguing are mingled in. The performers move stoically synchronous, imitating each other, responding with eye contact only. Like living sculptures they progressively move on the borders of the pool to finally dive into the basin. The process ranges between hesitation, fear and playfulness. The water is approached like an element of the unknown, with which the performers interact, treating it like a fluid opponent. They pour black color into the pool to dye the water and themselves. The procedure reveals an immersive character of humans assimilating and disappearing in their surroundings, becoming willingly or unwillingly part of an alienated context. The work examines transgression, alienation and immersion. It is a bleak reflection on modern-day identity and isolation, both in a technological and social dimension.

Text by Maximilian Steinborn

„I am in the world. A world without time. My consciousness now is light and it is air. Air has neither a place nor time. Air is the non-place where everything will exist. What I am saying is the music of the air. The formation of the world. Slowly what will be approaches. What will be already is. The future is what always existed and always will exist. What I am saying to you is not for listening - it’s for being.“

- Text sung during the performance by Marlene Kollender

Blind Land, 2018

Sound installation (13min/loop), 6 sound showers, basin with black water, 6 x 3 m, durational performance (approx. 50min) on October 24th 2018, 8 pm, performance with Marlene Kollender and Steven Sander; photo by Jorit Aust; photos of the performance by Lorenz Seidler;

Photographs on the backside wall by Andrzej Steinbach