Die große Hitze / Morning Exercise
Videoperformance / Multichannel Installation
Tuan Mami, Christoph Arge Schwarz
2011
Starting from the intention to hold a video-performance every day in a week in the public space of Vienna, the artists were forced by unusually hot weather to perform in the early morning hours at 6am, a fact which became eponymous for the German title "Die große Hitze", “the great heat” and changed the setting of the work totally: a empty city, sleepy protagonists, no audience.
The combination of a performance until total physical exhaustion and its painstaking video documentation, from subjective perspective of the protagonists as well as from a supposed objective external perspective is due to the different backgrounds of the two artist Tuan Mami (Performance/Conceptual Art) and CA Schwarz (Video/Media Art).
Die große Hitze / Morning Exercise was shown as a 6 channel video installation at Light#1 - Insert Einlage, curated by isebuki.com in Vienna / Austria.