The Land Unsown II

4th International Performance Art Festival -136.10 Hertz - Luisa Catucci Galerie, organised and curated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith and Luisa Catucci, photographs by Mathieu Léger, 2017, Berlin

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I sit on top of the stairs of a concrete environment with a very small strip of grass, framed in concrete.

I am wearing a white shirt, black trousers and the wing of a dead bird as a tie.

In my mouth I hold the ends of three paper rolls. As I am crawling backwards I am chewing the paper and print it with black charcoal in my mouth.

As my back hits the wall of my concrete labyrinth I sit down. The paper trail is more than I can chew so I pull it in and wind it into a big paper body which I put in a hole in the concrete and then set on fire. I pick up a long metal pole and and tie the bird's wing to the end of it with a thin golden string.

I conquer the last bit of nature, my pole loudly stomping onto the concrete whilst my feet flatten the grass and smoke rises behind me.

As I reach the centre of 'the land' I circle the pole above my head to let the dead bird's wing fly.

I drink water from a bottle and spit it out with the rest of the paper to douse the fire.

Now I am on all fours and gently touch the grass, then grab it with my hands and tear it out to stuff it into my mouth.

After I've inhabited all that is left I step down from my teritory and crawl into my concrete grave where I lay in the ashes that I've created.