FREIHEIT HALTEN

2021

Project Marta Lodola, duration live performance 30 min, materials: 1,5 m x 3 m white cotton fabric painted with black acrylic, interaction with the wind.

Event Open Occupy 2021 Flutgraben e V. Berlin

The human freedom is certainly something we have been constantly reconsidering during the pandemic: freedom to preserve our spaces in order to keep living and working there, freedom to take personal and conscious choices, freedom to be proud of our identities within the social context. Through a metaphorical performative representation of this difficult process of “preserving our personal freedom”, I walk along the way of the former Berlin Wall on Flutgraben’s rooftop, releasing a 3 meters white cloth in the air with the word “FREIHEIT” (freedom) which I painted on it. The performance consists in interacting with the wind, after carrying the cloth along the path. As first live action after the pandemic isolation, I felt that as a liberating, cathartic moment in which I reconnected with this city after a long time.

ph Alfonso Moral