MP_per_15 CONFESSION - PILLORY
[performance]

Neue Galerie Graz , Graz, Austria

19 November 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

duration: 7' 30''

curator: Günther Holler-Schuster

M & P stood in the completely dark 'mirror room' of the Neue Galerie Graz. They are ties with strong rope on the pillory. They are also blindfold. The performance began when the visitors enter the room and when the video projection started. The video projection, with loud tension sound, presented static words of 'shame' on the M and P bodies. Between each alternate image was break of 10 seconds [without images but with sound]. When the video projection began, M and P started to liberate their bodies from the rope. Until the end of the performance, when the video tape ended and the light turn on, they didn't free themselves from the rope... They were tied on the pillory until the last visitor exit the room.
The performance symbolically presented some of the ‘shame’s words’ which are commonly feelings of a shame by M and P. These words are allegorical expression [together with a red carpet on the pillory basement] of the shame points to all persons in a world’s policy and people who are badly responsible for all our life [with planetary problems such as wars, economy, global heating, etc]. Some of the words are also very personal expression of a shame.

photo: NikiLackner, Landsmuseum Joanneum