Performance
Chantal Michel: Hybride Zonen
Thu, August 27 – Sat, August 29, 2015
Market Place Karlsruhe
Interview
Chantal Michel: Hybride Zonen
As part of »The City is the Star«
- Date
- Duration
- 2:18
Description
Swiss video, photo, and performance artist Chantal Michel is well-known for such provocative as well as poetic interventions in public space. Dressed in eye-catching apparel, lost in time, or slipping into various roles, she astonishes onlookers by appearing on church spires, monuments, or on other unusual sites.
She infiltrates central building sites in Karlsruhe inner city as a foreign body, contrasting the activities of the construction workers by a moment of silence, but also provocation. Cyclists and pedestrians are invited to pause in front of the building site for a few minutes or hours in an attempt to discern Chantal Michel’s form when surrounded by pipes, building blocks, heaps of sand, and diggers. Through this intervention the construction site evolves into a search game combining movement and standstill, art and everyday business in an absurd image.
Video Documentary:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
Camera: Jonas Denzel, Christina Zartmann
Editing: Jonas Denzel
She infiltrates central building sites in Karlsruhe inner city as a foreign body, contrasting the activities of the construction workers by a moment of silence, but also provocation. Cyclists and pedestrians are invited to pause in front of the building site for a few minutes or hours in an attempt to discern Chantal Michel’s form when surrounded by pipes, building blocks, heaps of sand, and diggers. Through this intervention the construction site evolves into a search game combining movement and standstill, art and everyday business in an absurd image.
Video Documentary:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
Camera: Jonas Denzel, Christina Zartmann
Editing: Jonas Denzel
