Photo: You're gonna structurally start to improve.. (c) chi-mashie, Teresa Fellinger & Julia Hartig

Soundinstallation and Performance by chi-mashie

You're gonna structurally start to improve..

 

Language German

Duration 2.5 hours

Concept Teresa Fellinger, Julia Hartig

Performers Teresa Fellinger, Julia Hartig, Sina Heiß

Soundperformance chi-mashie

Photo: Doris Panholzer


Who wouldn’t want to get the most out of their existence? To be more conscious, relaxed, organized, healthy, productive, and happy? The self-improvement industry has long offered a range of enigmatic rituals, rules, and, not least, a wide variety of products to achieve these goals.


You're gonna structurally start to improve.. (c) chi-mashie, Teresa Fellinger & Julia Hartig
Photo: Viktoria Wöß
You're gonna structurally start to improve.. (c) chi-mashie, Teresa Fellinger & Julia Hartig
Photo: Viktoria Wöß

You're gonna structurally start to improve..  incorporates elements of such rituals. It involves the audience and creates a space where invisible order seems to prevail. Surrounded by sound collages filled with numerous optimization tips, participants become part of an enigmatic ceremony that can be both enjoyable and disturbing, yet entertaining.

You're gonna structurally start to improve.. (c) chi-mashie, Teresa Fellinger & Julia Hartig
Photo: Doris Panholzer

A massage device from the 1990s, touted as a promising panacea, forms the centerpiece and fills the space with the sound of a machine. Visitors are guided through the catharsis as participants in ritual “treatments.”


You're gonna structurally start to improve.. (c) chi-mashie, Teresa Fellinger & Julia Hartig
Photo: Doris Panholzer
You're gonna structurally start to improve.. (c) chi-mashie, Teresa Fellinger & Julia Hartig
Photo: Doris Panholzer