Art is not something that creates an illusory opposite world, it is more real than reality. Yes, in its function as a disruptive factor, as a moment of uncertainty of worn patterns of hearing, seeing, thinking and acting, art brings reality to light. The space in which I move is the public one. My most important instrument is myself, or rather the artificial figure I have created.  In my performative interventions I continually try to produce situations in which an exposition of my person seems to have been cancelled out by a secret retreat brought about by artistic means. For example, the self-proclaimed Minister for Homelandtrash and international Affairs. In this function, I am giving audiences in an transparent advertising column, or, after the new ban on eating has come into force, I opened a dining car in an underground railway car. 

Dealing with the transformation of conventions and rules is - for example - illustrated by the performative installation "Airpnp - air pause and peep" from 2017, in which I lived for several weeks in a bus stop in Vienna; or the latest performance "Hope your eyes are fine. I work a lot (pioneerwork)", in which I'm sitting a cauliflower clamped between my legs, in the subway.  Sitting wide-legged as a woman in the subway, against the regulation of public transports that urges men not to do man-spreading. This example shows, that the aim of art and artistic research is to irritate, disrupt and harass the (scientific) demarcations that have taken place so far - not only - in the public space, to make them perhaps more visible, and above all to overcome these borders with joy and relish. Following this aim, the main question underlying my artistic research could be formulated as follows: Which (symbolic) walls can art offer in order to fulfill a protective function even in largely unprotected spaces?
 

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