Ohne Kunst / mit Kunst

ENG : Without art / with art
my performance within the group performance at Kunst umgehen


At the initiative of Christiane Oppermann and Anna Grunemann through PAE Aktionslabor, I was invited to take part in a group performance in Hannover at Kunst umgehen (ENG : Bypass art; FR : Contourner l'art), where I had the privilege of meeting amazing performers and where I learned to transcend my own performative conceptions.



A soft and gentle scratching of a tree with a brush (because trees need to scratch their back too! ). Photo : China Hopson




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It was this beautiful day in Hannover, the sun was shinning, 27 degrees,


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the performance was about to happen in the old disused fontain downtown,  at︎Andreas-Hermez Platz, Hannover.




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However, the surrounding environnement was hostile. The spot is knowned to be the place where people make usage of hard drugs and alcohol.

My boyfriend was actually assaulted by someone, just because we were talking.

We even had to call the ambulance for another person who was living a hard psychotic moment.



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When the actions started, the feeling in the place drastically changed. People passing by were stopping and started to watch, with some curiosity.

What is going on here...



︎︎︎Softly untangling a message. Photo : China Hopson


It became a place where everybody were together. A place of acceptance of what’s happening. 

Something free, was being given to whoever passes by. Is this about freedom? Is it about doing what we want, when we want, where we want?




Elke playing with a version of myself. Photo : China Hopson






1.Christiane, Elke and Eva Maria in action. Photo : China Hopson
2.Carlotta, Christiane and Eva Maria in action. Photo : China Hopson
3.Carlotta Oppermann in action. Photo : China Hopson
4.Surya Tüchler in action. Photo : China Hopson




Christiane Obermayr in action. Photo : China Hopson





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︎︎︎ Object for my performance : litterral fake news. Photo : China Hopson


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I always like to pratice in the workshop while preparing some stuff for a performance. By practicing, I mean “actioning” or “activate” myself to do something. Most oftenly, I do props — not so serious sculptures — but also outfits/clothes/costumes/protesis/skins, whatever you called it with your disciplinairy bias.

For me, doing this is part of the performance, because it brings me the same “action-state”. When I arrive in the workshop, I ask myself : what can I do with what is here now, what can I do with what I have/am right now at the moment, how can I transform this into something. 



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There is always a fear with something unconventional. Because we don’t know how to classify it in our brain.  Our brain like to put a label on things, it is such an easy band-aid.

Sometimes, the parenting idea to associate comes afterwards. You gotta be ready to put it out in the world, even if you don’t have the proper words yet.





Photo : China Hopson



Excerpt from my notebook for my cube T-shirt. François Rioux, 2025.



Costume design for the futuristic opera Victory Over the Sun, Kazimir Malevich, Painting, 1913, 27×21 cm.


Das Triadische Ballett (The Triadic Ballet), Oskar Schlemmer from Bauhaus school. Photo : unknown


Hugo Ball reciting Karawane in a cubist costume at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 1916
Gelatin silver on paper. Courtesy Fondation Arp.









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Sometimes I have these questions
about my pratice.

I feel that to be successfull,
I should specialise and
do ONLY ONE THING PERFECTLY
and REPEAT IT,
but I am truly undisciplined
in my way of practicing.


I don’t want to be part of a school of thought.


I feel it would be sad to close myself
to one medium, one role,
one way of expressing,
only one way of doing art,
or one way of thinking/creating.




Also, taking a step aside
from canonical discourses
keeps me vigilant
not to fall into dogmas.

I acheive this step aside
with satirical actions or humor.
If I can laught about it,
it means I have enough distance.




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I think the artistic categories
are like ready-to-wear clothes,

I put them on
to talk about my practice,
because they are “the thing available”
to reach intelligibility,
but they don’t fit me at all.




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I feel it is in the meeting with multiple people or in the translation within multiple medium that art happens. The encounter with a medium or a technique, the encounter with others, the encounter with the alter ego.



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Thanks to these incredible artists for their inherent and contagious warmth :

Anna Grunemann,
Carlotta Oppermann,
Christiane Obermayr,
@cocophonia alias Christiane Oppermann
@evamariaschaller
@emmal.emma alias Elke Mark
@suryatuchler




Me bypassing my own performative conceptions @ Kunst umgehen.
Credit : François Rioux, 2025. Video : Pablo Elizondo