段英梅 · Yingmei Duan

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Menschenwald

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Duration: approx. 35 Min.

Projektraum fuer aktuelle Kunst und Performance in Basel, Switzerland, 2006

Live performance

I develop the concept during the realisation of the performance.I am very curious, about what would happen.

I slowly fill the space with the “living trees” and a “forest” starts coming out. With spread arms I am dreaming in the dark people forest, which I built. Site specific, I improvise actions with the “trees”: I stare at a female “tree” with disappointed eyes, while I move it around in the circle; I pull male “tree” hands to my naked breast under my night clothes; afterwards I give another “tree” a slap, before I slowly begin to dance with him…