Year: 2024
Duration: 6:27
A short text as a contribution to the performance and installation 'Complex Joy' by Charlotte Livine and André Mulzer, at Fleetstreet Theater in Hamburg.
I joined their residency for a while in March 2024, when we were waiting for Spring, talked about planting seeds, feeling like a baroque fountain and took pictures of flowers – relating public parks to fluctuating emotions. Oliver Bulas contributed to the performance as well, exchanging gifts with visitors and subtly shifting spirits, completing us as a group of four rather different artists, who all had a desire to collaborate, which was indeed as complex as joyful.
The audio file is a one take recording I've made later, at Oosterpark back in Amsterdam.
Dandelions
'People want to make flowers with flowers', you said, 'they don't want the dirt'.
Performance images by Anike Joyce Sadiq