- Performance Art
- Digital Art
- Performance Art
Wring My/thy-SELF Out With Words
Seah Christin Zenker
4 July 2026 16:00–20:00
“Worte wringen”, wringing words, is a multimedia performance in which you, as a visitor, can participate—but you don’t have to.
Seah, as the performer, uses a pen to write the sentence “How dare you leave me?” over and over again on the stone slab at her feet. She continues to write on the slab, layering the text over and over, even covering the words already written, until the surface is completely filled and blackened. The sentence is thus layered with paint until it disappears completely into the sea of color on the slab.
The multitude of colors gives the act of writing space within the words to uncover what memory, experience, or loss could no longer reveal.
Seah invites visitors to write a personal affirmation on a sheet of paper using a black pen or their own, effectively filling the page entirely with black. There will also be a bowl of small slips of paper filled with affirmations that are familiar to us all. If you don’t immediately know which words to choose, you can pick one here and surrender to the experience of wrestling with words, … what Seah calls: wringing them.
Seah documents the process with a camera and streams the performance. Her videographer Manuel Baumann assists her in this.
At the end of her performance, Seah will lift the stone slab bearing her written phrase and smash it. “How dare you leave me?” — Would you like to come and write a phrase on the white paper until it turns black?
Seah, as the performer, uses a pen to write the sentence “How dare you leave me?” over and over again on the stone slab at her feet. She continues to write on the slab, layering the text over and over, even covering the words already written, until the surface is completely filled and blackened. The sentence is thus layered with paint until it disappears completely into the sea of color on the slab.
The multitude of colors gives the act of writing space within the words to uncover what memory, experience, or loss could no longer reveal.
Seah invites visitors to write a personal affirmation on a sheet of paper using a black pen or their own, effectively filling the page entirely with black. There will also be a bowl of small slips of paper filled with affirmations that are familiar to us all. If you don’t immediately know which words to choose, you can pick one here and surrender to the experience of wrestling with words, … what Seah calls: wringing them.
Seah documents the process with a camera and streams the performance. Her videographer Manuel Baumann assists her in this.
At the end of her performance, Seah will lift the stone slab bearing her written phrase and smash it. “How dare you leave me?” — Would you like to come and write a phrase on the white paper until it turns black?
Biography
Seah Christin Zenker
Seah Zenker, born in Zschopau in 1985, has been transforming her poetic writing into an interdisciplinary exploration since September 2025. While studying the ethics of text cultures, she explored the media boundaries of text and body, writing as experience and re-experience, and established text-based work as a group project through the publication of the literary journal Blaue Flecke (bruises).
Manuel Baumann, born in 1978, works as a stage and theater photographer and videographer. He lives in Berlin.
Manuel Baumann, born in 1978, works as a stage and theater photographer and videographer. He lives in Berlin.
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