And Now The Screen Is Struck By Lightning

Peter Cant and Krzysztof Honowski plus guests shoot a live film in two parts at the West Berlin poolside.

A work about Berlin and the idea of the West, And Now The Screen Is Struck By Lightning takes as its starting point Tabea Blumenschein’s performance as Her, the drunk in Ulrike Ottinger’s 1979 feature film Ticket Of No Return. Blumenschein was the ultimate West Berlin superstar, whose celebrity came to an abrupt end with the fall of the wall. Now she is an outsider artist living at the city’s periphery. Berlin meanwhile, has made the opposite journey. A city that was once on the furthest edge of “Western“ Europe is now at its centre. And if there’s anything the 20th century has taught us, it’s that the centre cannot hold.

Invited by Clare Molloy & Clara Meister

And Now The Screen Is Struck By Lightning was performed at Tropez, Berlin on 15 & 16.6.2019

A limited edition of the accompanying publication, Sincere Procedures, was available at the Tropez Kiosk.

Further documentation of the piece can be found on the Tropez site.

And Now The Screen Is Struck By Lightning was developed into a two part moving image work during a residency at PACT Zollverein in May 2020 and was first presented online by PACT in Summer 2020. In 2021 it was then presented online by Tropez TV and screened live for an audience at PACT Zollverein Werkstadt in Essen.

Video Krzysztof Honowski Based on a performance by Peter Cant and Krzysztof Honowski Script Peter Cant, Krzysztof Honowski, and Laura Sundermann Performance Bishop Black, Etoile Chaville, and Laura Sundermann

with the participation of Jemek Jemowit and Roman Driamov Costumes Ryan Chappell

Photos by Ink Agop.