Timeless Transactions

Intervention in “before it gets better” at Volkskundemuseum
together with Bouchra Khalili (Artistic Strategies) and Angelo Plessas

with Maryam Shahidifar, Felix Schwentner, Charlotte Bastam, Helen Weber, Camille Belmin, Anzhelika Palyvoda, Anastasiia Klysakova, Julia Schmidt

Performers: Gudrun Schmidinger, Helen Weber

2024
lecture performance and installation with video projection, textiles and wax
40min


Collective thoughts around ghosts from the past that haunt us from the future culminate in a performative evening. Forgetting, remembering and at the same time imagining a future often leaves us in uncertainty. The performance illustrates not a complete genealogy of hope and fear but rather tries to capture a moment of being in time that is in crisis. Archives and collections such as the one of the Volkskundemuseum, the internet and of popular culture may give answers.

The enactment of one‘s own possible future is explored through votive objects, crypto currencies and constructing rituals.  

Timeless Transactions is a performance that has been worked out during the course of two semesters accompanied by the teachings of Bouchra Khalili.