Thea Herold
spinet pieces	d a i l y e x e r c i s e, World Premiere, 2004 (handwriting performance for a Spinet)
statement	The writer is doing daily exercises. Simply writing words and moving the body. While writing you will refresh and better remember the words - like for instance while learning foreign vocabulary. So the performance has to create a written dialogue between words and taichi movements - a close interaction between “eastern" movements and “western words". The writer is working with a feather pen. The writing movements produce sound touching the strings of the spinet. The words - keywords only - are extracted from the “Bill of Rights" - better known as Amendments to the US Constitution - the basic essence for our Human rights.
link	www.thea-herold.net
country	Germany
bio	Thea Herold was born 1960 in Saxonia and studied journalism in Leipzig. From 1984 to 1988 she lived in Moscow and since the fall of the wall she has been working as a freelance author in Berlin. She writes journalistic texts for newspapers , magazines and published books. For ten years Thea Herold also has been doing projects in handwriting for exhibitions, performances and installations. Since 2003 she holds a teaching assignment at the University of Arts Berlin (UDK) in the post graduate program in cultural journalism.