How do you balance all of your creative activities, as an actor, performer dancer and model?
Acting and performing is a passion of mine indeed. Even though in the last two years I am concentrating in film more. Also the pandemic made me switch paths a bit. With most of the venues closing I am glad for this change. I realised I spend so much more time watching things on the Internet. For example Josh Johnson that is working with brands like Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton. I helped him creating his movement vision by filming and/or taking part in it. In of my recent works, the performance Duo HARTMANNMUELLER invited me to be part of their latest piece ‘’No Fun’’ that premiered at Tanzhaus NRW in Duesseldorf. And at least this got streamed in the Internet. My friend Ferdinat Feldmann casted me his movie ‘’The Mysterious Opacity of other Beings’’ , too. This is another project I wish I can do more in future. It’s poetic film making that catches me. This year though was an exiting one so far. My first short movie ‘’GOOD BYE’’ I directed premiered this year and got his first film festival selection. My main cast in here Gina Henkel played here ass off and my DoP Henrik Alm made it look beautiful. Also I filmed and directed a commercial for Reebok in collaboration with Ximon Lee. Here I worked with Yongshen Deng. Well I guess my key is, to always work together with great minds. As you can see I can do many things at the same time. If I balance them I don’t know. I try to go with the flow.
You had the honour to be present at the winning announcement of “Faust” by Anne Imhof in Venice 4 years ago. How did you feel about this experience? Did in change your carrier? If so, in what way?
I used to study architecture at that time. Then I switched to performance and it looks like I end up in film. But mostly it’s the people I met along the way, they had an impact on me. I’m super proud of that I was selected to be one of Anne Imhof’s performers. The whole team is wonderful to work with. I learned a lot in that time. So that from this moment I wanted to pursuit a more artistic carrier. The movies I do now, they are a result of my performance past. I’m also but not mainly interested in showing a complex or confusing narrative. I see a lot of beauty in not explaining things. I enjoy this as a recipient too, if I notice the artist is trusting the audience. ‘’In my head’’ is a tryout of how confusing decision making is in general. It’s a thing I could do on a stage, too by multiplying my voice or with other video installations. But for now it’s a video.
What is the main concept in your performances?
I do have the idea to entertain or at least strike an image in peoples heads that they can’t forget for a while. Also I love to tease my audience from time to time by them having to listen to me screaming in a microphone for 20 minutes over and over the same text for example. I watched all those crazy movies like 120 Days of Sodom and Cannibal Holocaust. It’s the thing you don’t want to see but can’t look away.
