We are most wanted!
Am Montag habe ich einen Graffitiworkshop am Nebelthau-Gymnasium in Bremen-Lesum gegeben. 16 Schüler einer 7. Klasse, Durchschnittsalter 13, ohne große Vorbereitung. Da es nicht genug Raum gab, daß jede(r) sein/ihr eigenes Piece machen konnte, haben wir ein gemeinsames Werk für den Klassenraum gestaltet. Nach einigem hin- und her einigten sich die Kids auf den Slogan "We are most wanted!"
Gesprüht wurde auf Plastikfolie.
Pandoras Box – das Video!
Hier nun die Video-Dokumentation der diesjährigen Graffitiperformance.
Pandoras Box from Kenmo on Vimeo.
This is the second Graffitiperformance I produced. Like the first one it´s all black-and-white, music and "Zeitgeist"-issues. Unlike the first one this time we worked on a cube with four segments that can be rotated. This was quite a challenge to work with technically, since it was all new and we really didn´t have much time for our rehearsals. After the unexpected success of "Wandeln" last year it was hard to satisfy the high expectations anyway. In the end I think we worked out something good, but in my vision it could have been even better (which probably is the normal state of an artist, eh?!).
The first scene shows a person with a TV-head (a box!) bombarded with brainwash-propaganda from three screens until he finally doubts his identification with this virtual reality and asks himself the question "who am I?". This becomes the turning point. While the painted wall rotates imagine the person turning around in the room, away from the screens, still not knowing who he really is, just to find himself in the next bigger box like a prison cell confronted with surveillance and police brutality directed by a capitalist death figure in the second scene. Now they ask him to "identify yourself!". The third scene shows the usual system-identification-boxes like ID-card, bank card, smart phone and insurance card as the answer offered by the state. In the fourth scene the person finally identifies with what can never be taken away from him: his almost room-(box!)-filling body, his thoughts, feelings, impulses and consciousness as a naked man showing a face for the first time. Then the box closes again, following the original story of Pandoras Box getting closed before the last remaining thing in it can move out with the second opening: Hope!
The last scene representing hope shows the person outside of town, outside of the boxes, turning into the other direction with flying birds tied to his fingers as if he was to fly away towards the huge spiral in the night sky at the end of the picture, while the audience is left to decide wether his hope is something completely irrational like the last big illusion or wether it actually is something "reasonable", wether he´s got the magic to manifest another reality.
Wandeln – das Video
Endlich ist das Video der Performance fertig! Demnächst gibt es das dann hier auch noch mal in hochauflösender Form mit einer Menge bisher unveröffentlichter Fotos!
"Wandeln" is a graffiti-performance in black and white, on a 10 m x 2,10 m wall. This was performed at the "Explosive!" theatre-festival at the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof in Bremen, Germany in september 2011.
The german title "Wandeln" is a little play with words: Wandel means change, wandeln means to change but also to promenade, and then Wand means wall -
so it´s like "demonstrating change by walking along the wall" (and painting it, of course) ...
Abschluss Osterholz-Scharmbeck
Das Werk ist vollendet - nach 4 Tagen Arbeit mit den Jugendlichen - und wurde heute nachmittag zum Abschluss der Projektwoche den Schülern, Freunden, Eltern und Lehrern präsentiert. Die Resonanz war ausgesprochen gut!
