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''The aim of this project is to create a performance that will last for eight hours – the normalized span of a working day (at least in Western-European conceptions of employment). | ''The aim of this project is to create a performance that will last for eight hours – the normalized span of a working day (at least in Western-European conceptions of employment). | ||
The performance refers to my personal past, working as a tailor for several studios and workshops.'' | The performance refers to my personal past, working as a tailor for several studios and workshops.'' | ||
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''I will invest eight hours of labor in undoing my own work by taking apart a jacket that I have made myself (within more than 60 hours of handcrafting).'' | |||
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''The performance should take place in a shop window.'' | |||
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The project poses questions of what it takes to undo or erase – what can possibly be undone through the process of taking apart and what new things, objects, ideas, feelings, memories, and values emerge from it? | The project poses questions of what it takes to undo or erase – what can possibly be undone through the process of taking apart and what new things, objects, ideas, feelings, memories, and values emerge from it? | ||
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And after the work is (un)done, we can think of the pricing. | And after the work is (un)done, we can think of the pricing. | ||
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= '''Performance Score''' = | |||
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+ The performance will happen inside Kiosk.6 at Sophienstiftplatz, Weimar. <br> | |||
The performance will take 8 hours. | |||
Within the 8 hours I will take apart a jacket that I have made myself during my apprenticeship stitch by stitch. | |||
+ With me in the Kiosk there will be the jacket, a chair, the tools I need to take it apart, an empty mannequin, a punchclock and a camera. The singled out pieces of the jacket will fill up the window displays bit by bit.<br> | |||
The camera will be directed at my face, covered in tears, or at my hands by turns. | |||
+ The front window of the kiosk will be open to enable interaction with passers-by.<br> | |||
Above the window there will be a screen showing what the live-camera captures.<br> | |||
Next to the screen the title of the performance is displayed. | |||
== Documentation of a first tryout | + Every hour (starting on hour 0) I will punch the punchclock, that is programmed to count backwards. I will also use a tear-stick to make my lacrimal sacs produce tears. | ||
+ The performance ends when the 8 hours have passed. By the end all pieces of the jacket shall be detached from each other. | |||
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== '''The Place:''' == | |||
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== '''Why Tears?''' == | |||
In tailoring, like in many artisan traditions, there are a lot of superstitions intertwined with the craft. They mostly connect with abjects of the body of the artisan, produced while working on a piece. For example: In Germany, when making a wedding dress, a drop of blood should be placed somewhere at the inlay - which is supposed to bring good luck and help for a happy marriage (it also used to symbolize bloodline and a mother's grieve, as the mother of a bride was supposed to sew her wedding dress). In France, unmarried embroiderers would sew in one of their own hair into a wedding dress, in order to be the next one to marry. | |||
I decided to create a new superstitious tradition, making use of my tears. By crying while opening the seams of my jacket, I can make the past undone. | |||
At the same time, the meanings of the tears - like those of the drop of blood - are manifold. They symbolize superstition, but the could also flow because of grieve, trauma, fear, melancholy, or relieve. They catalyze negative emotions and wash them out. | |||
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= Documentation of a first tryout = | |||
(taking apart a jacket that somebody else has made) | == (taking apart a jacket that somebody else has made) == | ||
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excerpts from instagram stories | |||
== excerpts from instagram stories == | |||
(for the first tryout I took apart a handcrafted jacket that somebody else has made (probably in a theatre/opera workshop) within 8 hours and documented the progress every hour with an instagram story) | (for the first tryout I took apart a handcrafted jacket that somebody else has made (probably in a theatre/opera workshop) within 8 hours and documented the progress every hour with an instagram story) | ||
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= References = | |||
Tehching Hsieh | Tehching Hsieh | ||
https://www.tehchinghsieh.net/ | https://www.tehchinghsieh.net/ | ||
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Astrid Reischwitz | Astrid Reischwitz | ||
https://www.reischwitzphotography.com/spin-club-tapestry | https://www.reischwitzphotography.com/spin-club-tapestry | ||
= Documentation Peformance July 4th 2023 at Kisok.6 Weimar = | |||
== Video == | |||
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==== https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlV2AMLewTc ==== | |||
== Photo == | |||
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