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 I arrive during a time when the whole country is fasting: it’s Ramadan. I decide to try out this form of religious penance as a part of my exploration of spiritual practices of endurance. Unfortunately my efforts are misinterpreted and seen as a fake pose emerging from my own weirdness. Instead of Ramadan I launch into performatic overdrive, climbing pole-shaped objects every day and continuing my hanging series. ((The hanging series is part of an ongoing sequence of performances I’ve been carrying out in the last 5 years, their remnants only visible in photos. The first series was about shaking, the second about jumping. The last one is about hanging.  I arrive during a time when the whole country is fasting: it’s Ramadan. I decide to try out this form of religious penance as a part of my exploration of spiritual practices of endurance. Unfortunately my efforts are misinterpreted and seen as a fake pose emerging from my own weirdness. Instead of Ramadan I launch into performatic overdrive, climbing pole-shaped objects every day and continuing my hanging series. ((The hanging series is part of an ongoing sequence of performances I’ve been carrying out in the last 5 years, their remnants only visible in photos. The first series was about shaking, the second about jumping. The last one is about hanging. 
-It's an ongoing research into how one can be playful with the environment and how one's body can adjust to the colours, shapes and circumstances of a landscape so that for a second it can becomeone with the landscape. Thus a moment of perfect unity is created into an image or a glimpse where human movement and the conditioning landscape collaborate for creating a sculptural form with different matters. The symbolysm of 'hanging' refers also to the idea of endurance and strangth, to phrasings such as "hanging on". It's the absolute triumph of the human body to become one with environments that are alien and not artistic at all. It's the small victory of a female body defying esthetics and boundaries withing her own possibilities and hanging on to not more or less than her own strength.))+It's an ongoing research into how one can be playful with the environment and how one's body can adjust to the colours, shapes and circumstances of a landscape so that for a second it can become one with the landscape. Thus a moment of perfect unity is created into an image or a glimpse where human movement and the conditioning landscape collaborate for creating a sculptural form with different matters. The symbolysm of 'hanging' refers also to the idea of endurance and strength, to phrasings such as "hanging on". It's the absolute triumph of the human body to become one with environments that are alien and not artistic at all. It's the small victory of a female body defying esthetics and boundaries within her own possibilities and hanging on to not more or less than her own strength.))
  
 I have won in my surrender to the law of the worlds. I surrender to simple happiness, becoming part of my environment wherever I go. I have won over belonging and unbelonging. I accept my alienation. I have won in my surrender to the law of the worlds. I surrender to simple happiness, becoming part of my environment wherever I go. I have won over belonging and unbelonging. I accept my alienation.
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