Ellen RodenbergLast year performance for Equinox to Equinox 'Same but different'
https://222lodge.nl/index.php/2025/03/25/equinox-march-2025/
How it feels to be in the drawing while drawing in a public. The process experience from within.
At the beginning of the performance , I have made a long line on my centreline. At the end, a red alarm button. I stepped into a cylindrical shape of cardboard with each leg, pulled a corrugated sheet with a circle opening over my body and placed a white cardboard cylindrical shape across my head. Sliding slowly, I began to move forward. The alarm button scuffed across the bricks. In each hand a black felt-tip pen of various thicknesses. I listened to the sounds of other performers and passers-by. I responded by drawing with two hands simultaneously on the white round shapes my body was now trapped in.
Out of the corner of my eye to the left, I saw someone rocking a small treetrunck. I was rocking along while drawing. Behind me, while walking by, I heard someone reciting a poem. I listened attentively and moved my felt-tip pens to the sounds. To the right, I saw and heard a coloured paper festive garland rustling. The figure tangled in the line. In the distance tapping and hammering. While drawing, my master cylinder spun. I see letters on poles. A passer-by asks to press the red button. I say yes. What happens then he asks. Nobody knows I say. He presses the button and I sign. His young children now want to press the button too. The youngest wants to too. Only when I draw a heart does the older sister also want to. The man explains to his family what I am doing. They are reassured. I am not. I move further sliding and find my concentration again.
#art #performance #artperformance #222lodge #equinox #samebutdifferent #performativecollaboration #hof #thof #dordrecht #hofvannederland
The next Equinox will be on march 22 2026 at
Stadhuisplein, Dordrecht
https://222lodge.nl/index.php/2025/03/25/equinox-march-2025/
How it feels to be in the drawing while drawing in a public. The process experience from within.
At the beginning of the performance , I have made a long line on my centreline. At the end, a red alarm button. I stepped into a cylindrical shape of cardboard with each leg, pulled a corrugated sheet with a circle opening over my body and placed a white cardboard cylindrical shape across my head. Sliding slowly, I began to move forward. The alarm button scuffed across the bricks. In each hand a black felt-tip pen of various thicknesses. I listened to the sounds of other performers and passers-by. I responded by drawing with two hands simultaneously on the white round shapes my body was now trapped in.
Out of the corner of my eye to the left, I saw someone rocking a small treetrunck. I was rocking along while drawing. Behind me, while walking by, I heard someone reciting a poem. I listened attentively and moved my felt-tip pens to the sounds. To the right, I saw and heard a coloured paper festive garland rustling. The figure tangled in the line. In the distance tapping and hammering. While drawing, my master cylinder spun. I see letters on poles. A passer-by asks to press the red button. I say yes. What happens then he asks. Nobody knows I say. He presses the button and I sign. His young children now want to press the button too. The youngest wants to too. Only when I draw a heart does the older sister also want to. The man explains to his family what I am doing. They are reassured. I am not. I move further sliding and find my concentration again.
#art #performance #artperformance #222lodge #equinox #samebutdifferent #performativecollaboration #hof #thof #dordrecht #hofvannederland
The next Equinox will be on march 22 2026 at
Stadhuisplein, Dordrecht
Jukka Niiranen
Helle
Ellen Rodenberg
Carmen Zedler
ellenrodenberg
Howard Lake
Susanne Schneider
BrightonWildlife