CAROLA WILLBRAND
MY SCULPTURE WORK

The subject of my sculpture work is the Container". The Container is a solid body with a hole in it - as a vase for example. This is a well known form for everybody all over the world since a long time. No matter in what culture or in what part of the world - Asia, Afrika, Europe - the human race formed very similar Containers to preserve food (for example) at the beginning of mankind's history - the Container - the first sculpture.

These Containers, I make, have solid bodies with a hole in it, but their substance is not material, it's the spirit and the space of sculpture - thinking". The stuff, I use to build the Container, is cloth, tissues (most of all worn dresses by my family, my friends); I sew the form and make them firm with glue.

In the performance I show the connection between the Container and the human body, I put my head, my hand, my foot in it. I show the sculpture to the audience and sometimes when people are very calm they can hear a little noise....

To Thailand I will bring plastic bags ( containers too) from Cologne, which would be produced at Asia and in Thailand. I will find new plastic bags and I will sew them together to a plastic-bags-performance -installation. Plastic bags are well known for all of us. They will be used in all cultures today; so maybe plastic bags are something that unites us.

Die Lektion

Über den Zeitraum von ca. 15 Minuten flüstere ich, spreche ich, hüstele ich,

stöhne ich, singe ich, schreie ich, kreische ich das Wort Performance perforrnance

peeerformance perfoormance performaance PERFORMANCE

PERRRRRRRRRRRRMANCE PERFORMANCE

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während das Mikrofon und mein Kopf immer mehr von einer Einkaufstüten-Skulptur verhüllt werden.

The lecture

I will whisper, I will speak, I will cough slightly, I will groan, I will sing, I will cry, I will scream and shriek the word performance performance

peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerformance,

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perererererformance,PERFORMAAAAAAAAAAANCE;

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During this act, the microphone and my head will be slowly covered by a plasticbag-sculpture.