Skater-Klein

Video/Live-act. Stalke Gallery © 1996.

With lipstick on my nose, forming a clown’s nose, I rode a skateboard directly into the wall, leaving a red imprint. The performance echoed Yves Klein's Anthropometries, translating his blue imprints of female bodies into a single, absurd gesture.
By using my own body as both brush and projectile, the work questioned authorship, imitation, and the physical limits of artistic mark-making. The clown's nose - a symbol of failure and play - transformed the act into a humorous yet critical response to the heroic ideals of postwar performance art.