Give Rise to Sunny Pfalzer & Marshall Vincent
Rub Your Face Onto Your Shoulder

Sunny Pfalzer is a performance artist. Organizing protests and establishing communities has always been a key part of their life and practice. Pfalzer researches how we can find new approaches to political action. At the center of the artistic work is an exploration of strategies in cultures of protest and activism, whereby tvarious global and historical phenomena of commons resistance are addressed. In the choreographies and performances, which often take place unannounced in public, masked bodies move across historically prominent locations and monuments, together forming shapes and creatures whose existence, like our general social body, is dependent on each other. The use of poetic elements in which the bodies move slowly or linger also plays an important role. Last year Pfalzer worked with Marshall Vincent, an American R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and composer, creating the performative play Rub your face onto your shoulder, a work that changes with every performance. Vincent’s music and texts describe and explore concepts of love, happiness, suffering, and melancholia.

HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark
10.–11.9.2022
Curatorial Assistant: Jan Tappe

Photos: kunst-dokumentation.com