Entzaubert am Berg / Kosmisches Campen mit Hang zum Feeling 
[Mount Disenchantment / Cosmic Camping with a Panorama of Emotions]

2-part performance with and for Midgård Serpent, voice, hill slope, camping site and my absent father.

approx. 25 min.; 114 über Marzahn - Festival auf den Ahrensfelder Bergen, Berlin, by invitation of the artist collective Team Endeffect.

Ergonomic objec Midga°ard (cloth, cotton wool; 2009/2010), isomat folding chair, foldable table, flowery table cloth, a variety of salt+pepper dispensers, Hut [Hat] (papier maché, wire, salt+pepper dispenser; 2009/2019), Das Weisse im Ei (Wachsfrei) [The Yolk of the Egg (Wax free)] (cloth, wire, acrylic tubes, salt+pepper dispensers; 2019), notebook, flip-flops.

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Based on fragments of an object-based film script originally written in 2009, the dual performances relate to Team Endeffect’s camping- themed installation. - After wrestling with the serpent of Midgård
(a reference to Thor’s attempt to lift the enchanted “cat” of Ut- gar∂alóki/a wry comment on failing to carry the weight of the world on one’s shoulders) on a hill slope, I re-emerge in the yolk of an oversized egg speckled with salt and pepper dispensers. For the occasion, I wrote a suite of texts, with outset in childhood memories of long-haul summertime camping trips on the back seat of the family car, criss-crossing the European continent. And intertwined this with thoughts and imagery of endless asphalt landscapes, family struc- tures, camping aesthetics, (absent) father figures, body dysphoria, comic figures, and the degradation of the non-human environment.




With kind assistance, hospitality, audience guidance and moderated by camping site inspector "Ute" (Alice Escher).

Documented by Max Franks.

Sept. 08 2019