White shirt moment
published by PAS | Performance Art Studies, 2012 http://pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de
published by PAS | Performance Art Studies, 2012
http://pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de
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Jon R. Skulberg [no]<br />
PAS #18 | “somebody - everybody - nobody”<br />
Fredrikstad, Norway 2010<br />
28<br />
H e i m a t / 7 minutes<br />
I am standing still within a grid of 200 folded white napkins. Over me a white house is<br />
hanging. Within the white house a tank of 20 liter dark green water is hanging. After<br />
a while I open the tank, and the green water runs out. I step under it, and the green<br />
water covers me, before it continues on the floor, and into the napkins. “Stabat mater<br />
dolorosa”, by Vivaldi is played. The water is still coming out of the tank. When the music<br />
is over I turn slowly around my own axis until the water is emptied. Then I stop. The<br />
performance is over.<br />
I started out working from the German term «Heimat». Heimat is not only the home you<br />
come from, it is the landscape, the smells, your family, the region. Your Heimat can be<br />
a place you can travel back to, or revisit by recollecting. In this piece I wanted to investigate<br />
my own connection to my Heimat, and make a still life performance dedicated to<br />
a person, who where strongly connected to me and my Heimat, but that I now only can<br />
meet through my memories.
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