MARIE JULIA BOLLANSÉE
MARIE JULIA
BOLLANSÉE

ARTIFICIAL WALK #2

Marie Julia Bollansee
a collaborative performance with the audience
at the city centre of Chemnitz, Germany
on December 16, 2017, from 1.30pm until 2.30pm
with Jutta Boehme, Merle Endler, Sylke Erler, Solveig Volmer, Frank Weinhold, Lotta Kummer, Ulrike Schell, Rolf Wolfermann
9 blue tarpaulins, signed, dated and numbered, limited edition of 9
white sheepswoolen robot-costume, Mit Hendrickx knitwork
galerie Borssenanger Chemnitz in collaboration with Eva Steynen.Deviation(s) Antwerp, organisation

videoclip, 4’49”
Cynthia Vertessen, camera
Marie Julia Bollansee, editing
Anais Bollansee and Michel Done, photography

The artist invites 8 members of the audience to participate in a slow walk around the city centre of Chemnitz. As a reward they achieved a signed and numbered tarpaulin-edition.
Artificial Walk is an ephmeral collaborative performance, an act of vigilance.
A blue tarpaulin becomes the shell you step into the network with. The blue tarpaulin functions as an artificial extension to your body; you become a cyborg with a special task: When you walk you copy a code for tenderness and compassion.

Now is Tarpaulin blue.
Tarpaulins are the universal emergency solution and the primary shelter for people around the globe. Their colour, which is named by the artist as ‘Tarpaulin blue’, she perceives as a sign of the time, as the now-blue. It occurs as infinite variations. There are as many Tarpaulin blue’s as there are situations where people use the (blue) tarpaulins in. Tarpaulin blue is alterable, it changes and fades by use and it’s pigmented by necessity in peoples lives.

ARTIFICIAL WALK #2 _ PROGRAM

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