During my conversation with a French girl in which we were
taking about our work, I asked if she ever took photographs. She told me, that
the previous summer she had documented everything related to hurt. Something I
found really interesting in relation to her work on love. It was only a few
minutes later I realized, that she had in fact said everything related to heart
and had pronounced heart in a French way, leaving the ea sounding like a u.
I could not get the sentence out of my head. Everything
related to hurt. It somehow sound intriguing and to me much more interesting
and profound than everything related to heart. Therefore I decided to take it
on as a working title for a future project, that I at that point didn’t know
what was going to be.
What is hurt and what does it involve?
I find that most times we hurt ourselves through our
perception of the actions of other people, more than their actual intend to
hurt us.
What I mean by this is that hurt is often induced from
within, a negative value added to an action of another person.
If your lover fails to say he loves you, it hurts because
you want him to; if you cannot get over a past lover it isn’t because of him
but your own inability to let him go, hence you keep hurting yourself by
constantly reaffirming a love not reciprocated; if there is caused trouble in
paradise it is often because of misreading and wrong interpretations.
We create the hurt through our private language; we speak
towards others though they cannot hear us, thus hurt is dependent on someone
else and yet much more on our own expectations to this individual
In this performance I am exploring my private language, toward
various men in my life; by trying to speak my inner language out loud, my
perception of things that are not necessarily true.
I will be performing this, Saturday the 4th in
the “Direct Action” festival, a part of “The Month Of Performance Art Berlin”. In
case you are in the area you should come check it out.
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