87 and combining the elements, which are the paradise. During their physical communication these elements create a certain climate, that defines the character of the table-landscape which they connect themselves to, and whose agitated life affects them.
1980: Reindeer Werk performed their piece Prediction in Hamburg and Hannover. Tordoir Narciss told me the story of Today’s Place in Antwerp. Got the meeting with Jacques van Poppel. 1981: I staged live-situations between 10 and 30 days. In September, together with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, I organised Das Konzil. 70 persons (40 of them invited guests) were con- fronted with each other, sitting around the Table created specially for this situation. The guests were chosen from peo- ple I had met in projects I had organised during the last three years in the Kleinen Ausstellungsraum, Hamburg. The most important influence to me was the Tool Group consisting of Harrie de Kroon, Mike Hentz, Jacques van Poppel, Franklin Alders, Firma Bender & Nern, Bernhard Schwarz, and others. The Tool Group was an open, nomadic and chaotic system of Performance Art. Parallel to that, there was the Panoramagruppe (nomadic performances), the Stil-Gruppe (speech performances) and open groups like Quasi mythische Orte which organised performance travels, for example to the jail of Stammheim, to the highway during the daily rush hour, to anoint the street as a ritual in a stop-and-go situation or to experience the canalisation of Stuttgart. 1982: in May I continued with Das Konzil in an event of 30 days. 10 days in the Künstlerhaus Hamburg in the Kleiner Ausstel- lungsraum, and, at the same place, 10 days of seclusion. After this followed an open Live-situation together with Marina Kern and the Theatre Dankerrt, with two containers from overseas, one in the street and one in the theatre space. First idea to start a network of Performance Art was born. In the same year Die Schwarze Lade of the Konzil was published for the first time. This sculpture of public interest have three sections (1997):