Ruhe

The gallery (standard large white room with concrete floor) gradually fills with people. Many of them know each other (as at all openings). They chat and drink and smoke. There’s a bar and a DJ (it’s a party). A few hours of this. Then a single, sharp, clap-like sound: and some of the partygoers fall down and remain on the floor (frozen, as if sleeping or unconscious) for 10 to 15 minutes. I think it’s all being photographed (or filmed).

Ruhe
A performance by Anouk Kruithof
and location closing party by Autocenter, Berlin
29 September 2012

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