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gruene erde
green earth
5 hours performance inside a flowerpot

The fourth edition of the International Prize for Performance organized by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento at the Teatro Sociale in Trento.
On Friday 10th and Saturday 11th October 2008 at 8.30 pm, twelve young artists from all over the world will present their previously unseen performances in front of the public and international jury.
Selected from over a hundred and twenty candidates from all over the world, the protagonists of the final are: Feiko Beckers (Holland), Filippo Berta (Italy), Francisco Camacho (Columbia), Cristian Chironi (Italy),
Lewis Colburn (USA), Judith Egger (Germany), Christian Falsnaes (Denmark), Alicia Frankovich (New Zealand), Brian Getnick (USA), L'epimeteide (Italy), Jacopo Mazzonelli (Italy) e Orthographe (Italy).

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The jury which will award the performances of 2008 is, as always, made up of very important figures from the International contemporary art scene. It includes Carlo Antonelli (musical critic, director of Rolling Stone Italy),
Helena Kontova (co-director of Flash Art), Gian Marco Montesano (artist, artistic director of the Teatro Stabile dell'Innovazione of Pescara), Catherine Wood (curator of contemporary art and performance at the London Tate Modern),
Franco Oss Noser (director of Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara, Trento) and Fabio Cavallucci (artistic director of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento).

    
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This photo is by Hugo Muñoz.
Courtesy Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento.
All other photos are by Manuel Eitner. Courtesy Judith Egger.

   

Performance concept
duration: 1-5 hours
material: soil, plants, snorkel for breathing
space: inside a big wooden flower pot (approx 1m x 2m x 30cm) which is decorated in the architectural style of the foyer.
location: In the foyer of the Teatro Sociale, Trento
description: For „Grüne Erde“ I will be buried underneath a layer of soil and lush grass and flowerplants. The only thing visible of me is one of my
bare breasts. I will breathe through a snorkel or breathing holes in the flower pot which are as invisible as possible. My body and the earth become one,
my breast looks like it is part of the vegetation, part of the earth. It is dissociated from my body. The audience will wonder whether it is real - only by detecting small
breathing movements which make the plants on top of me shiver, they will know.

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photography copyright Siegfried Wameser, Diana Ebster, Shiina Takehito 2008