body as prosthesis – a performative installation by Jonas Büßecker
Saturday August 29, 6-10 pm
* The performance will start at 7pm *
The body as a prosthesis and art as a site of constructive change is the focus of Jonas Büßecker’s latest work in which he collaborates with performance artists from the Berlin drag community who are used to utilising their bodies as instruments to create alter egos and playful illusions around appearance, gender and power. The genre of drag implies such an understanding of using one’s body—thus it makes the drag performer so exciting for Büßecker to team up with. Within the body as prosthesis, Büßecker creates his sculptures as starting points, which will solely be complemented with the human body and movements. The body constitutes a framework, like a linchpin, a tense system: the performers enlarge the system, they complete it; they finalize it. The body isn’t merely a reference magnitude of the arts anymore, it’s rather a prothesis of the art. (Text by Mio Pröpper/ Maja Smoszna)
Sound artist
Finn Nelé
