Mir geht's gut 3 — Cowboys + Pelzhandschuhe
'I am fine 3 — cowboys + fur gloves' — performance in competition
background of the performance series «Mir geht's gut ...»
The performance «Mir geht's gut 3» is part of a series of performances: «Mir geht's gut 1» and «Mir geht's gut 2».
All three are based on a similar scenario, each time adapted to the specific local conditions and their framings: once at a performance art festival in the large turbine hall in Giswil OW, then at a performance festival in Zurich on the Limmat, and finally at a performance competition in an art venue.
jury report (translated into Englisch by Dorothea Rust)
«Dorothea Rust comes into the narrow long art space with a large bundle of branches. The first thing she does is unroll a large landscape in front of us. We are on the prairie, where the cowboys live, behaving as heroes, gesticulating, dueling and becoming victims of their own construction, becoming wobblers. In just a few strokes, Rust paints a life of desire, of inability, ruptures and attempts, of confidence and playfulness. She slightly dislocates things and thus creates meaning. The imaginary scenery transforms the film set into a communicative situation in the here and now. Rust fabricates a dangerously expressive manifestation. «You're fine», «Everyone is fine», she writes on slips of paper and sticks them on branches. Then she asks the audience in a friendly way: «May I lift you up?» Now she lifts up individuals she «blindly» selects from the audience. Everything has its weight in the truest sense of the word. After the almost to the point of exhaustion intense, cheerful and joyful carrying of people follows a reverberation. She fills the space with her voice, always walking, pushing the branch as a guiding fork that absorbs the resistance of the ground and gives the dancer traction.
Dorothea Rust's performance is a complete success. It is powerful, cheerful and comforting. The many moments and hints become a large atmospheric space that speaks about life. Rust plays on a broad keyboard of performative instruments, which she masters very confidently.
A performance fee of CHF 2,000 and a grant of CHF 7,000 from the Kunstkredit will be awarded.»