‘Like beads on a string’ is an ongoing performance/social action (started spring 2020) about communication, relationship, power, prejudice, connection, creativity. In this performance I meet with people from various socio-cultural, ethnical and national backgrounds to make porcelain beads *. The people can make as many beads they like for free, (duration, 1-2 hours) but I ask them to choose one they made to donor me. 

The artistic work consists of an installation of the beads the participants donor me, diary entries/drawings (I do before and after the meetings about my feelings, impressions, thoughts, imaginations) and collected video/audio snippets I take. The meetings often start with a teacher/pupil power relation, but fast progress to a more equal encounter in which both parts learn from the other person and explore the material together. The participants learn that I am more interested in the ideas and taste of the participants, the meeting and the relationship which develops. 

In the exhibition I want that the visitors have a sensible, open and curious feeling when they carefully walk through the field of beads and the light installation will smoothly swing. I hope they start to be curious and open about the persons behind the beads and about their own imaginations and projections they have about that people.

* Beads are one of the earliest forms of trade. Trade is thought to be one of the reasons why people started to talk. Nearly all cultures created beads.