Performance by Linda Franke 
with Laura Stinger and Matthew McGaughey

Tickets, $8 (via WithFriends)

A score for anarchistic behavior in public space.

Featuring proportions of a soft mobile rock, a cold sliding fence and spinning a fountain.

Voices falling in and out of sync with colors.



Moving something from one place to another.
Pushing things that can´t be moved.
Sliding and rolling the static.
You have to be quick to find your new position in the composition.
When the music stops you have to find a place to sit.

Moving something suggests purpose.

This thing is now over here. 
Where it should be?

Being in and out of sync with machines that tell us what to do. 
Being in sync with people, objects, and immaterial things.
Movement and voice are usually in sync.
"In sync" means being in a state where two or more people or things are working together at the same time and speed or are in agreement with each other. It can refer to actions, ideas, or even sounds that match well together. 

In between what is real and what is fake?
How do we operate in the realm of half-real?
We like that the prop appears real but is not.
We want to indulge in imitation.
Testing if our imagination is strong enough to overright the facts of reality.

I am interested in special effects that reveal their mechanisms
and so lose part of their magic but never completely.

The expectation of the illusion and the revelation of nothing new. Again.

Ideas of the performance as a spectacle where something is going to happen.
Is something happening even when we just push something?
I something happening when we don´t know what´s happening?

Can dimensions function as an emotional map?
How do the dimensions of objects in public space influence how I feel in my body and what possibilities I see for myself in this space?
Dimensions express rules and establish territories.

You look small next to this rock.
The traffic light is three times the size of your belly.

How do we read what performances the object in front of us suggest
and what happens if we do something else?

The idea of the fence is to block and protect.
Could it be tender and playful instead, with no job?
The idea of a rock is that it's heavy and static, maybe some of them roll.
A human can only go around or over but never push it out of the way.
The fountain is a place for rest and leisure, it has an almost romantic atmosphere we don´t need it but we love it when it's around.


Linda Franke was born in Dresden, East Germany and is based in Los Angeles since 2017. Her work engages with the constants of human life by staging situations in which our daily routines are being transformed into absurd Tableaux Vivants. Found materials, elaborately produced props, 3D animations, text collages and soundtracks, create a cinematographic set that serves as the environment for her performers and the resulting video. Franke is a Graduate of Universität der Künste Berlin, DE, Chelsea School of Art and Design London, UK and Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE. Besides Residencies at Sacatar Brazil, BR, CCA Glasgow, UK or Impact Utrecht, NL her work has been shown at Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, DE; Goethe Institut Montreal, CA; Schaulager Barbara Thumm in Berlin, DE; W139, Amsterdam, NL; Simultanhalle Cologne, DE; Art Cologne, DE; Film Festival, Sao Paulo, BR; Galapagos Art Space, New York, US; Moscow International Film Festival, RUS; Soma Mexico City & Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, MEX and Mars Gallery ,PAM, Navel, Femmebit Festival, Neon Museum and the Box Gallery in Los Angeles.