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DROP DEAD FASTER
Transmedia performance, 2020
DROP DEAD FASTER
Transmedia performance, 2020
multichannel videos and performance, objects,
3D Animation, Full HD, 60min.
in collaboration with Tatjana Vall
Exhibition: AkademieGalerie Munich
The transmedial installation DROP DEAD FASTER deals with the weariness and unleashed consumerism of our society and presents them on a virtual, analog and performative level. Inspired by the poem "C‘mon pigs of Western Civilizations" by Allen Ginsberg, with which he already denounced the affluent society in the 1970s, the Academy Gallery becomes a stage of hyperreality. The project DROP DEAD FASTER will initially start in public as a virtual presentation. Content in the form of videos, photos, texts and sounds is published via a dedicated social media account. A golden Grillz in the shape of a gun appears again and again: as an Instagram face filter that puts the Grillz in the viewer‘s mouth, but also in animations and commercials. It is a symbol, a „brand,“ meant to represent the weariness, consumption, and ostentation of consumer society. In the process, viewers look through the gallery‘s windows at six performers performing work at various stations. They stir cement, bend and cut metal rods. The choreography of the work sequences, which cannot be assigned to any meaning or goal, creates a dramaturgy. The sounds of the loud machines underline the performance and create an acoustic dynamic. Finally, one of the performers films the audience with his smartphone. This video is then projected onto one of the panes - the spectators thus become part of the performance and switch from the side of the viewers to the side of the performers.