Performance on the Rhine River outside of Bazel
Performance: Bendji / Albena Mihaylova
Camera: Reinhard Manz
"This performance echoes the basic idea of the «Burial» performance from 1988. On the banks of the Rhine near Basel, I found myself stuck with river stones. My body was unprotected in my nakedness, and exposed. But the key moment was the accumulation, the disclosure, the shaking, as a counterpoint to the state of the performance «Burial». The performance contains the idea of liberation, rejection of borders and hereditary burdens are all obstacles to the creative personality taking on a new path. I was already living in Basel, had completed a master class in video art, and a new period was beginning for me. The Rhine River flowed ..."
Rhine river, near Basel, 1999