How to Become Universal, video-performance, 2019
how to become universal, video, 1-channel, 8:42 min, 2019
sound: meditation music and spoken text
Accompanied by meditation music a voice talks in the gentle tone of meditation guidance while overlapping and varying shapes of two human bodies appear from the darkness. Only after a while it becomes more clear, that this shifting picture is produced by the projection of a bright male body on the surface of a female body. In this video work the artist expands and changes the show of Worldchampion of Bikram Yoga (2010), K. van den Wijngaard, by trying to adapt the acrobatic movements of the athlete with her own body. The continuous failures of her serious attempts produce glimpses of humor in this work. But meanwhile the text contains a different both seductive and oppressive story about a relationship of dependence.