[2] This durability is often linked to visual representations. But, what experience remains once the document has decomposed? What do we learn when we devote ourselves to the microbiological traces of performative acts? Is the archive then everywhere? A body, pushed into a corner of the former gallery weisser elefant, appears as a glitch of an outdated file version and tells of discontinuity and deterioration. The performance A shock to permanence (2024) outlines the detours and cracks in process-based working methods and explores the relationship between loss and inscription in performative practices.

[3] ELEFANT, performances in the framework of DIFFRACTIONS. Transforming at Kunst Raum Mitte, curated by Natalie Keppler and Agnieszka Roguski, 27. October 2024, Berlin. Photos: Mathias Völzke