Performance
Fri 27. June 2025, 19:00-20:00
The performance explores the car as a breathing body – a performative tool that moves, takes in, and releases air. It becomes both an object and a site of pneumatics: tires are filled, air is compressed and released through compressors. At the same time, the Schwabengarage is located along one of Stuttgart’s most polluted roads, the B14, where countless fine dust filters work to combat air pollution.
In this performance, which takes place in and around our own car, performative, text-based, and acoustic actions examine the relationship between breathing and the car as a breathing entity – a thematic connection between air, vehicle, city, and body from ecological and economic perspectives. The car as phenomenon becomes a performative tool for playfully and artistically negotiating different aspects of breath and urban life.