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I am the Widow maker
Project in apartment in Lichtenberg , Berlin, text by Heiner Müller “Leben Gundlings Friedrich von Preüssen Lessings Schlaf Traum Schrei”, Heiner Müller Foundation
2006
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Initiated by the Heiner Müller Foundation, five artists were invited to respond to an empty apartment each in Lichtenberg (former East Berlin) where Heiner Müller had previously lived. In a four room apartment, I created multi-media installations inspired by the play “Leben Gundlings Friedrich von Preüssen Lessings Schlaf Traum Schrei” (The Life of Gundlings Friedrich von Preüssen Lessings Sleep Dream Scream) written in 1976. I interpreted the text to various extremes, from the most refined to the rawest and most banal way possible. It wanted to illustrate the very thin border separating these two.