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Sleep walking in garden

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Duration: 60 minutes

Garden of the castle in Salzau, Germany, 2005

Photographer: Till Steinbrenner

Live performance

In the past I did the performance inside, this time I want to try it outside. In the garden I meet more or less coincidentally the public.

On a sunny day I sleep on an old bed standing in the garden. I crouch my body. Then I wake up as if I were in a trance, I begin to move, and I slowly stand up. I am everywhere and go towards the audience in the garden as if I am sleepwalking. Suddenly I slap someone from the audience round the face. Then, as if nothing had happened, I move on. Finally I go back to my bed and continue to sleep.