Dancer in the Dark

2002/2001 | Videoinstallation


2002/2001 | video installation


«The video shows a street artist performing a bizarre dance with a life-size, neatly dressed doll in a subway passageway to loudspeaker music.

Attached to the dancer's feet, the lifeless female body follows his every move; a scene somewhere between involuntary comedy and brutal rape fantasy. This jet-black grotesque runs as a loop on a monitor mounted on a luggage trolley with two suitcases and a piece of plastic tarpaulin. The whole thing is situated in public space, in a kind of duplication of the original situation, the hat for collecting money lying ready.» (Sibylle Ryser)





Exhibitions

2014 Videocity..bs, Foyer Theater Basel
2003 Präsentation im öffentlichen Raum im Rahmen der Regionale: Kunsthalle, Plugin, M54, unternehmen mitte, Basel
2002 one fine day, 34k, Berlin