Interdisciplinary Artist
Social practice artists: "freely blur the lines among object making, performance, political activism, community organising, environmentalism and investigative journalism, creating a deeply participatory art that often flourishes outside the gallery and museum system" (Lingo, Elizabeth L. and Tepper, Steven J (2013), 'Looking Back, Looking Forward: Arts-Based Careers and Creative Work,' in Work and Occupations 40(4) 337-363.)
Near Future Scenario
Research Project and novel 2005- ongoing
A research-intensive near-future scenario and suburban drama following a the lives of a family living in the Western suburbs. Used for journalism and a novel – an intimate and very personal, local and domestic view of the way members of the family cope (or don't) with the upcoming challenges of the end of the oil age.
Wishes for Wedding
Audio Installation Performance 2023
Cyclist acrobats perform a colourful, geometric choreography on a main public square like a magic ritual. The dance music is made up of residents' wishes for the district collected through vox-populi street interviews.
Part of the ACROSS fesitval, Galerie Wedding, Berlin.
Spandau Cycling Club; costumes: Sarah Ama Dua
Action Girls
Berlin schools video and sport project, 2010. initiator, trainer, director
Parkour, acrobatics, acting and film with 13-16 year old girls in 3 Berlin schools. Resulting in 4 student-devised short films, produced by Platypus Theater, funded by Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung.
Desire (1999) Performance for two singers, UNDABDIEPOST 1999; 3rd Festival Festival of Young, Experimental Art, Postfuhramt, Berlin-Mitte.
The Art of Self-Pity (1998) Solo comedy theatre piece about crying and capitalising on one’s own suffering, ‘Raumschiffzitrone’ K77, (now Lichtblick Kino), Berlin.
From the Heart of a Frightening Woman (1996/7) Solo theatre piece about the trials of living outside gender conventions with music, projections and installations, premiere at Solo La La Festival, further performances: Amazon Productions project in Fehre 7. Installation artists: Dagmar Gabler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Stine Brinklöv
The Amazon Woman in Berlin (1995) Interdisciplinary performance piece about vulnerability in migration, using theatre, illusion, video projections with live music and original score by Mark Scheibe. The main performance was enclosed by an installation lounge/foyer, including performance installations by Stine Brinklöv. Performed in German and English, in temporary space, now Cinema Central on Rosenthaler Str. Berlin, Mitte.
Scripted performance pieces
(writing, production, performance & directing) generally in German
Gesamtkunstwerk, performance spectacle 2001
Multi-media interdisciplinary performance: socially critical narrative-based performance piece with dialogue, live music, acrobatics and projections for eight performers. Initially performed in Rathhaus Schöneberg (district town hall), then sized up for the Staatsbank, Berlin – the former East German State Bank – where the performance filled the main hall while the surrounding rooms became lounge and installation spaces with sound, performance and object installations as a contemporary circus with side shows.
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