Osterspaziergang von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, NSK Folk Art Biennale, Trbovlje, 2018

OSTERSPAZIERGANG VON JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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After the performance "Osterspaziergang von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" was first shown at the "Rundgang" of the Academy of Fine Art, Leipzig in 2018, I had the honour to show it again at the "NSK Folk Art Biennale" in Trbovlje, Slovenia. The performance took place on the legendary mount Kum.

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Six performers stand in a circle/hexagram and throw a bright-green raw egg in a clockwise direction from person to person. When the egg breaks, without delay, a robotic voice recites the final line of Goethe's Osterspaziergang, Faust I: „Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein!“ (transl.: „Here I am Man, here dare it to be!”). Thereafter, a Faux Queen, who is standing in the middle of the circle/hexagram on a low plinth, dressed in a traditional German Dirndl and carrying a basket full of bright-green eggs, throws a new egg to the person who dropped the previous one. The performance finishes when all the eggs from the basket are broken.