Geil und charmant

During the finnessage CHEAP Kollektiv performance The Word Falls, for the closing exhibition of Gropius Bau´s Fabelhaftes Produkt during Berlin Art Week a Latin American filmmaker and girlfriend of the diva Vaginal Davis told her that a slattern looking woman resembling La Llorona, but dressed in natty black clothing with long dreadlocks was snapping fotos and floating about the event like an apparition. Ms. Davis was so heavily concentrating in staying in character she didn´t even notice the large audience in attendance. Some people had to be turned away as the huge atrium space went beyond capacity.

Vaginal Davis dressed all in white robes was wearing a huge headress that was weighing her neck and shoulders down She was in excruciating pain during and after the performance ritual.

The Fearless Leader of CHEAP, La Susanne Sachsse masterfully directed the performance as well as performing on a sculptural swing, aided and abetted by film historian Marcuse Siegelstein, Daniel Hendrickson, Christian Fritzenwanker who supervised the makeup, costumes, aesthetic&conceptual design with assist by Janette Peters, Martin Siemann-lighting director, Boris Wilsdorf-sound, Pola Sieverding-Live Video, Richard Gabriel & Nele Ruckelshausen-akshunist wrestling, XiuXiu-additional music and Tyme Khleifi who performed and was the curatorial assistant.

The project was a collaboration with the celebrated Jewish conductor and musicologist Michael Barenboim and the Nasme´Ensemble featuring Bakr Khleifi on oud. The musicians in the ensemble are all radiantly gorgeous students and graduates of the Barenboim-Said Akademy from different regions of Palestine dedicated to playing both European chamber music and a repertoire from Palestine. CHEAP, The Word Falls was curated by Nora-Swantje Almes of Live Program and Outreach with Edessa Malke and Savannah Thümler.

The Word Falls, a fog of denial, horn speakers, music, poetry, ethics and the letter of the law. Who could ask for anything more?