"Release nº1"

Duration: 3 hour 15 minutes, 2005

Performed: September 25^th, 2005
Exhibition: Poker im Osten, Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Curator: Constanze Fischbeck, Ivan Civic

Release is a social performance. The artist assumes the role of an object that collects all negative aspects of human behaviour and culture and tries to transform them into commiseration and a reflection of what we could have in our hands if we would only give up our egoism, hate and fears.

release n.1

release us from our misery.
release us from our pain.
release us from our tragedy.
release us from our sorrows.
release us from our lies.
release us from our tears.
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