This video documents the live performance of the performance model in full length on September 19, 2012 at Millburn Studios, University of Warwick. The performance event consisted of three elements: object exhibition, live performance and successive audience feedback round.

BODIES OF CRISIS – Performance script

Sequence 1: Is this my story? On embodying history in autobiography and the strains of collective codes

• language of memory I: 20th c. German political gestures (maria)
  
• language of memory II: ballett of the rich in Cyprus (jess)
  
• language of memory III: dislocating the body (maiada)
  
• language of memory IV: the male narrator (david)
  

Sequence 2: Welcome, stereotypes! The haunted stage of East German unification memory

• the crisis of socialist narrative: disappearing (the map / david)
  
• the crisis of socialist consumption: excess (joghurt & coffee / jess)
  
• the crisis of the socialist body: worries (sweets & pills / maria)
  
• the crisis of socialist taste: this is not an apple! (apples / maiada)
  

Sequence 3: Then is now (hygiene). Docufiction and the usefulness of comparison

• Showing of re-enacted pieces of interview material on everyday personal hygiene on a screen. Performers wash in space, thereby physically connecting past and present.
  

Sequence 4: Utopia is a small island in the Baltic sea (Fossils) Documenting self-reinvention and efforts for a better life and their failure

• Taking up gestures from the first sequence, we perform the months of the Wende in which calls and concepts of socio-political imagnation were most pronounced (Oct - Nov 1989). These were the months before the voices for reunification and capitalist consumerism were taking over. In the background, on the screen, historical images visualise a countdown to unification. The movement ceases with the appearance of a clock that symbolises West German news reports and life.