



Artist at work • ClaudeHilde
With the social sculpture Artist at Work, the utopian collective CLAUDEHILDE, reflects on laziness as the basis of all creative work. Thus, permanent self-optimization is making female laziness impossible. It is with a big mustache that Margarita Breitkreiz and Julia Thurnau are calling for a revolution of lazy women and are pouring out their praise of laziness in Malevicʼs Suprematism. Works created on site in unpaid labour, can be auctioned during the epilogue.
With the invitation into my bed, we sell laziness as a product that you have purchased with your entrance ticket. The photo series Recipe for the making of Art is framing the performance. Works produced on site in unpaid labor can be auctioned in the epilogue. Thus, we all get the opportunity to take part in the Care Revolution.
Laziness is the absence of movement and thought, dumb time – total amnesia. It is also indifference, staring at nothing, non-activity, impotence. It is sheer stupidity, a time of pain, futile concentration. Those virtues of laziness are important factors in art. Knowing about laziness is not enough, it must be practised and perfected. (Mladen Stilinović)
Meshing medial presentation, ClaudeHildeʼs work is questioning proposals and schemes of identity and the economic system in the western world. Identity is reflected as socio-cultural and political category. Thematically, ClaudeHildes work combines existing social debates on normativity, self-determination and the performance of gender identities. (Gwendolin Kaesdorf)
Performance in German and English
Costumes: Clara Kaesdorf, Pro-visional
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