Location:

Gallery Michael Steinberg Fine Art / Performa07, New York

Date:

Nov 15th, 2007

Exhibited Works:

Walk the Wall Again


This performance breaks down walls in the heads of people and in society.
NYC as an intellectual and artistic melting pot. The performance visualizes this by linking it to the fall of the Berlin wall. Walls grow everywhere: help to walk the wall!
“Walk the Wall again” is hard work.

In Berlin there was a functioning society cut right in its middle into two. Families were divided, children visiting friends in the Western part of the city could not come back at this night. They could not say good by in any case. People would not even know what happened, when parents, children would not be back next morning. This kind of a sudden separation happens today everywhere - in society, in families, in politics etc.

In a “live drawing dialogue” I will interact with the projected video documentation as of my former Berlin performance “Walk the Wall” (Berlin, Potsdamer Platz 2004)

I will create in my performance a drawing on the trails of the projected wall performance. The actual drawing appears more and more upfront. At the end the projected reality of the video is overlayered by the actual documentation drawing.
I Berlin I took the stones from the back of the wall and carry them to the front of the line.
The video: The stone wall “walked” stone by stone all along Potsdamer Platz. The stones were real and heavy. It took about four hours to walk the wall to Tiergarten. People were welcome to help to walk the wall. They realized the weight of the stones and they did have to make decisions where to put a stone within the sculptural environment. So they became part of the creative process.

My performance with the documentation of my Berlin performance is a symbol and connection to the immigration history of New York. A new dimension will remain:
a drawing.