Aktion V01  

LIVEXPERIMENT
2017 Glasvitrine, U9 Birkenstraße, Berlin

Material: textiles, wearable sculptures, found objects, glass wool, ropes, drawings

Credits: Photo © Petra Valdimarsdottir & Susi Hinz

AKTION V01 relocates the artistic process into the public realm, making it itself a subject of inquiry: What is art when it unfolds not as a finished object but as a permeable, ongoing process? Within a glass studio in Berlin’s U-Bahn station U9 Birkenstraße, the body becomes a stage and the display case a cell from which something living emerges. The woman in the cage embodies visibility and captivity simultaneously — an ego caught between observation and self-assertion in the act of being exhibited. The actions within the vitrines become a projection surface for collective judgments and, at the same time, an autonomous act of self-declaration. Voyeurism is not staged but facilitated — part of a social experiment that unfolds through the audience’s response. Passersby, flowing through the uniform rhythm of urban movement, are confronted with an alternate reality: a moment of disruption, an invitation to engage. AKTION V01 challenges not only identities but also the very space of art itself — as a site of discourse, loss of control, and potential transformation.