From Seoul straight to Berlin – performance artist Anna Anderegg shows HopeMe in the black hall of the Mahalla.
Award-winning performance artist Anna Anderegg presents her production “HopeMe” for the first time in Germany for a limited audience. The one-hour performance was previously presented at the Songeun Museum Seoul during Frieze Seoul and will now celebrate its German premiere at the Mahalla. 100 visitors are admitted to the performance.
“HopeMe” reflects on our societal notion of female beauty and explores self-representation in digital space. It takes up the phenomenon of hope for a more beautiful, better, more attractive and more fitting body expressed on social media.
The idea of “beauty” becomes a performative act of self-presentation in the digital space. “HopeMe” looks at the mechanisms and asks: Which social ideal images emerge in the process and how can these be challenged?
For the development of “HopeMe”, Anna Anderegg and her team took various apps as a starting point that serve self-optimisation and fitness and in which an understanding of beauty is virtually “celebrated”. The representations of such “beautiful bodies” become the basis for the physical movement material of “HopeMe”.
Screens are arranged in the dark room. The performance artist encounters several digital versions of herself. The movements contrast and intertwine with the video sequences on the screens.
HopeMe” can be seen on 21 and 22 October.
About Anna Anderegg:
Anna Anderegg is a Swiss performance artist who studied dance in Bern, Montpellier and Berlin. Her artistic practice focuses on the interactions between body and space. The focus is always on how social, urban or architectural spaces influence the body, its movements and its needs.
“HopeMe” is the third performative work in which the artist explores feedback processes between the analogue and digital worlds.
Anderegg’s works have been shown in various cities in Europe, Asia and the USA. In addition to numerous international awards, Anna Anderegg has won the June Johnson Tanzpreis (Swiss Dance Prize) and the Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland prize from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. She was also nominated for the prestigious S+T+ARTS Prize by the Ars Electronica media art festival with her performance and film project “Alone Together”.
