Bankleer add a human prosthesis to the actually empty core of a thing, which splits the thing through its human energy and can no longer be brought into harmony with itself. The thing becomes an ecstatic object that cannot return to the calm of the material world, but stands out from it as something alien and incomprehensible.

In the coming months, they will engage with Rome and its massive historical deposits in the form of architecture, sculptures and public spaces in order to bring them into dialog with the present through ‘new reflections’ of past spaces.

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Critical Costume Exhibition 2020: Costume Agency online exhibition presents artworks that treat costume as their main medium, often as a starting point for a performance, and always as a crucial aspect of a performance. more

Video for the virtual, happening, performance – The Trojan Donkey, 2020

Reflection on a hedge as a border whose exterior space has been lost. With the elimination of the outside space the perception of one’s own self is questioned. more

Competition, Ministry for Family Affairs, Mauerstr.27, Berlin

“… weil die Menschen von Natur her nicht gleich sind und daher einer von Menschen errichteten Einrichtung bedürfen, der Polis um Kraft des Gesetzes einander ebenbürtig zu werden. Gleichheit existierte nur in diesem spezifisch politischen Bereich wo die Einwohner der Polis als Bürger und nicht als Privatpersonen zusammenkamen.“ (Hannah Arendt, About Revolution, Munich, Piper 1974 p. 36) more