Dead Slow
 Installation/Performance  2009
Metropolis Biennial

In 2009, I was invited by Teaterkunst (DK) to participate in the Wall2Wall project, developed partly during a residency at Sophiensaele Berlin and presented at Metropolis Biennial in Copenhagen. Audiences were picked up by a bus and taken to a secret location outside the city where they took part in a game that involved the participation of several artists/artist teams competing for water bottles that were distributed to the audience. With the materials I found in the space, I built myself a home, consisting of  a huge number of empty plastic bottles, two old tv screens with head phones, a freezer, and a cooker.  Instead of competing actively with my fellow artists, I sat in my installation, without speaking much, sometimes cooking water, restoring the freezer with the bottles I received, or working on my mobile of frozen bottles that I hung upside down from a construction of long metal bars, shifting and turning as the water melted and dripped from the bottles.  Audiences were invited to sit down and watch a combination of old super-8 films that I had brought from home and slow motion films that I had created with the other artists. (Link Video Installation) These films were generally connected to water while the audio material consisted of interviews with the other artists about what should happen to our bodies when we die.