Aktion Golden Downswings  

INTERVENTION IN PUBLIC SPACE & SCULPTURE
2017 Intervention. Dong Xuan Center, Berlin
2016 Sculpture. Galerie am Leewasser, Brunnen/CH

Material: Maneki Nekos, glass, wood, metal, reflectors, plastic, wearable sculpture Brilliant Housemates: textiles, coatings.

© Susi Hinz. Photo: Johanna Fritz (Berlin) & Franziska Amstad (Brunnen/CH)

Aktion Golden Downswings takes the Maneki Neko waving cat as its point of departure — a mass-produced emblem of good fortune. Through its disassembly, autonomous sculptures emerged, whose movement — recorded by a pencil attached to the mechanical arm — became the formal basis of the wearable sculpture Brilliant Housemates. The translation from object to drawing to wearable culminated in an intervention at the Dong Xuan Center in Berlin. Within this commercial environment, the body appeared simultaneously as a product among products and as a disruption of that logic: handcrafted, materially present, and non-normative. The work brings body, object, and value into direct friction, rendering perceptible how identity and meaning shift within the tensions of production, projection, and economic context.