Alles wird gut — 47° 9' / 8° 32'

content und procedure

On a beautiful day in April seven action and movement sequences have been filmed individually in the landscape on the Zugerberg. The place can be seen from the hospital in Baar. From the three-hours long film material video stills are 'distilled' and printed on canvas in various formats. Together, the individual images make up the sequence of a performance as a sequence of images, which is restaged on the monumental walls of the Cantonal Hospital in the staircase and in the corridors spread over five floors:

1. I climb a flowering cherry tree with the help of an old wooden ladder. From its crown, I throw slips of paper skywards, on which the message "All will be well" is written in almost thirty languages, from German to Serbo-Croatian to Urdu. The languages correspond to the places of origin of the staff of the Zug Cantonal Hospital.
2. In another action I push a small side table over hills, paths, fields and meadows, even stones and apples are transported bumpy.
3. On a hill I swing a heavy stone with my hands on a rope.
4. In the middle of a meadow I dance in wild and circling movements with apples hanging around my neck and over my shoulders.
5. The "All will be well" messages blown down from the tree are dug in or out at the edge of the forest.
6. On the cantonal road to Allenwinden I ride on my stomach on a rolling dog - a strenuous way forward, in which I push off with both hands.
7. In another sequence I let a dancing garden fork navigate me over the cantonal road.

The actions could remind us of symbolic and ritual practices. In ancient times, medicine was connected with religion, it had something to do with faith, message and the power of images. My work is about the precarious handling of gravity, to which all living beings are exposed on a daily basis. The existential component of things and of being becomes visible through the movement of material and body. The precisely arranged fragmentary actions are about taking off, moving forward and shifting, about being carried around while being handicapped, about diverging in the handling of instruments and material, about the mood of spring and the awakening as conveyed by a blossoming cherry tree, about the naturalness that 'clings' to our bodies, about images of lightness, power and confidence, in which resonate breaks and a portion of discomfort.