Grenzgang
(2017)

For her performance / installation Grenzgang as part of the group exhibition How to blur lines at Kraftwerk Augst, Maag, Irene; uses everyday and site-specific materials. It is a material that she discovered at Kraftwerk Augst: transparent pressed plastic bales with packaged, colored cleaning rags. Several pallets of these bales are stacked up to form a bulwark in the room. During her performance, in which she performs a controlled dive on the large crane, the fortress is brought down. Afterwards, the artist transforms the ruins into a colorful installation made of fabric. The individual rags are knotted together and made into patchwork flags, which are hung in the exhibition. The artist publicly demolishes her work with the performance and at the same time builds a liberated alternative from it. She thus becomes a border crosser and silently proclaims new patchwork states with the flags. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, the material remains visible as a relic of the performance and as a changing installation.