"Käuflich / sellable", 2004
Performance New York
Kamera: Ted Nordlander

I am standing on a street corner of New York and try to sell my clothes directly from my body. Most of the people are disgusted. A few men act like they want to see me nude, but stop when they recognize that I am serious.
At the end I sold my t-shirt, my socks, my belt and my hairband.

"Körpergeruch / body odor", 2004
2tlg. Performance “Debutanten 04” Galerie der Künstler, München
Foto: Jan Schmiedl

When the performance starts I takeoff my clothes and go to the bathroom. There I wash myself. I come back to the exhibition room wrapped in a towel and ask the audience “ decide for me what to wear the next four weeks. I will not wash myself and will not change my clothes.” The visitors, two ladies of different ages, choose my clothes..
I then don´t wash myself, don´t brush my teeth and don`t change my clothes for four weeks.
After the four weeks, I come back to the same place and share my body odor with the audience. I say to visitors “dance with me” . While dancing I ask the visitors about how I smell. In general the idea of the not-washing seems to be worse than the real experience.