Give Rise To Sunny Pfalzer & Marshall Vincent
Rub your face onto a shoulder
Performance
Sunny Pfalzer, Hold a Ghost, 2020 – 21
with Ronald Berger, Marie Carangi, Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Rebecca Korang, Billy Morgan
© Daron Bandeira
Performance Dates:
Saturday, September 10: 4:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.
Installation: 11:00 a.m. — 6:00 p.m.
How do you bring back the body memory of a hug? Rub your face onto your shoulder (2021 — ongoing), a performative installation on view at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark as part of the Give Rise To… series, tells stories about togetherness, vandalism, and romance. The installation consists of textile objects and an audio meditation. The fabrics of the objects were originally worn as clothing by six actors* during Sunny Pfalzer’s performance Hold a Ghost (2020÷21), who protested, flirted, played and danced in them. Afterwards, the clothes were cut up and sewn back together as textile sculptures, inviting the audience to linger. In this way, the objects carry a kind of memory of the bodies they used to wear. Instead of moving on the street, these bodies now come to rest in Rub your face onto your shoulder.
Artists
Participating artists
Sunny Pfalzer
Sunny Pfalzer is a performance and fine artist. Pfalzer studied performative art under Carola Dertnig at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Most recent presentation venues include Kunsthalle Vienna; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Galerie Wedding – Room for contemporary Art, Berlin; Radialsystem, Berlin; Shedhalle, Zurich; Les Urbaines, Lausanne; Wiener Festwochen; ATAR Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo; GAM, Santiago de Chile.
Marshall Vincent
Marshall Vincent is an R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and composer. He has performed in the program of the magazine High Snobiety; the TV Channel Arte; CTM, Berlin; Creepy Teepee, Kutná Hora; Creamcake Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; His last EP, In No Particular Order, was published in 2021 by SA Recordings, London, and in the same year he issued the remix Saving Face with Gaika.
Registration
Sunny Pfalzer, Hold a Ghost, 2020 – 21
with Ronald Berger, Marie Carangi, Olivia Hyunsin Kim, Rebecca Korang, Billy Morgan
© Daron Bandeira