Anna VI — Floating Gaps

Anna VI — Floating Gaps

performance happening

  • concept | performance

    Dorothea Rust

  • material

    10 cardboard panels with photocopied photos attached to elderberry branches and wooden slats, the latter sprayed with white colour | 1 oldfashioned black men's umbrella | 1 black top hat | 1 pair of worn black men's leather shoes | 1 black trousers | 1 white long-sleeved shirt | 1 sleeveless T-shirt | 1 black leggings made of elastane | 1 spray can with white paint | music from laptop: Dr. John and Rickie Lee Jones «Makin Whoopee» (1989) | song: «Downtown» (1964) after Petula Clark

  • length

    approx. 50 min.

  • place | date

    book launch «Floating Gaps — Performance Chronik Basel (1968–1986)»
    edited by Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Muda Mathis and Margarit von Büren (diaphanes Zurich 2011)
    General Public, Schönhauser Alle 167c, Berlin
    15 May 2012

  • also in the program

    presentation of the video performance «Le petit déjeuner sur la route d'après Manet» (Basel 1979) by Anna Winteler (CH), Courtesy Galerie Stampa | Steffi Weismann (DE) with «LapStrap #Memory» - solo for voice and mobile audio technology

  • curated | organised

    Performance Chronik Basel, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Muda Mathis and Margarit von Büren