Disclosure
(1999)

Performance am Rhein für zufällige Zuschauer
Disclosure
1999
Location: Rhine River near to Basel
Performance: Albena Mihaylova
Camera: Reinhard Manz
This performance echoes the basic idea of the «Burial» performance from 1988. On the banks of the Rhine near Basel, I found myself stuck with river stones. My body was unprotected in my nakedness, and exposed.
But the key moment was the accumulation, the disclosure, the shaking, as a counterpoint to the state of the performance «Burial». The performance contains the idea of liberation, rejection of borders and hereditary burdens are all obstacles to the creative personality taking on a new path. I was already living in Basel, had completed a master class in video art, and a new period was beginning for me. The Rhine River flowed ...