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DIE STEHENDEN
27.01.2009
H. A. R. P. (Holocaust Art/Anual Remembering People), Rosenstrasse Berlin.
Duration: ca. 5h
Materials: 60 pairs of secondhand women shoes, yelow pieces of chalk, polyethylene backpack
Documentation DVD: 16 min.
CD 26 min. with sound of the street
Description
Wearing a backpack which I constructed myself and filled with sixty pairs of women’s shoes, I walk from one end of Rosenstrasse to the other, continuously tracing silhouettes of the shoes with yellow chalk. For every ten silhouettes, I leave the pair of shoes to begin with the next set until no more remain.
Concept
This work is inspired by the the protest along Rosenstrasse (Berlin) which lasted from February 27th to March 6th 1943. According to different sources, between 150 and 6,000 people demonstrated, mainly German women who successfully obtained the liberation of their Jewish husbands, for the duration of one week.
How can the victims of the holocaust be remembered today? What is the purpose of recalling this small incident and understanding it?
My performance deals with the fragility of memory and the desire for successful and peaceful resistance, reminding us of the courage of those German women.
video stills
installation of performance at Instituto Cervantes Berlin
27.01.2009
H. A. R. P. (Holocaust Art/Anual Remembering People), Rosenstrasse Berlin.
Duration: ca. 5h
Materials: 60 pairs of secondhand women shoes, yelow pieces of chalk, polyethylene backpack
Documentation DVD: 16 min.
CD 26 min. with sound of the street
Description
Wearing a backpack which I constructed myself and filled with sixty pairs of women’s shoes, I walk from one end of Rosenstrasse to the other, continuously tracing silhouettes of the shoes with yellow chalk. For every ten silhouettes, I leave the pair of shoes to begin with the next set until no more remain.
Concept
This work is inspired by the the protest along Rosenstrasse (Berlin) which lasted from February 27th to March 6th 1943. According to different sources, between 150 and 6,000 people demonstrated, mainly German women who successfully obtained the liberation of their Jewish husbands, for the duration of one week.
How can the victims of the holocaust be remembered today? What is the purpose of recalling this small incident and understanding it?
My performance deals with the fragility of memory and the desire for successful and peaceful resistance, reminding us of the courage of those German women.
video stills
installation of performance at Instituto Cervantes Berlin