MY 1000th BIRTHDAY
2012
Performance presented at Kunstraum Tapir, as part of the Month of Performance Art – MPA-Berlin.
This project is a reflection on the profound and disturbing meaning of existence: a contradictory, strange box of pain and pleasure.
The hyperbolic characteristics of this performance/installation are a metaphor for the impossibility to live forever or an interrogation into the desire to extend life. Why do we celebrate the date of birth and what it means personally and socially? Paradoxically, although we don’t like to get old, we make a party each time we have managed to survive for another year. This contradiction means that we actually don’t know how to deal with the close relationship between life and death. ‘My 1000th Birthday’ is a surreal and fictional vision about existence and it’s celebration.
2012
Performance presented at Kunstraum Tapir, as part of the Month of Performance Art – MPA-Berlin.
This project is a reflection on the profound and disturbing meaning of existence: a contradictory, strange box of pain and pleasure.
The hyperbolic characteristics of this performance/installation are a metaphor for the impossibility to live forever or an interrogation into the desire to extend life. Why do we celebrate the date of birth and what it means personally and socially? Paradoxically, although we don’t like to get old, we make a party each time we have managed to survive for another year. This contradiction means that we actually don’t know how to deal with the close relationship between life and death. ‘My 1000th Birthday’ is a surreal and fictional vision about existence and it’s celebration.