how individual choices create a collective organism, 2021 / video performance / sonicexplorers / Künstlerforum Bonn / performer: Ali Hashemlou, Kathrin Lambert, Kaveh Sattari, Mehdi Behbudi, Lorenz Pasch / duration: 10 min (variable) / material: smartphones


A group of performers begins to move in an interdependent way with the following rules:

1. line up in a circle.

2. film the person to your left.

3. film until 10 minutes have passed.

It doesn’t take long for the group to move through the room in a momentum that no one can control, no one can foresee. The strangest poses and movements emerge. But these never seem ridiculous or unfounded. For they always remain indebted to the specific situation in which one is still anxious to manage the rules conscientiously. For example, someone may be crawling in a circle on his knees while the subject of this person is circling around him, and meanwhile he himself is strictly focused on the feet of his own subject. I developed this work during the second part of the sonicexplorers residency at the Künstlerforum Bonn. It arose from my preoccupation during the first part of the residency in Tehran with the conditions of artistic production within the framework of the residency. The performance was premiered with me and my colleagues in Bonn.