hot spots in a cool place
2025Performance, 30’
Postcard picture point, hot off the press. Double-sided. How beautiful we have it here. Chirping alpine meadows masked by the hum of server racks and digital beeps, some cooling fan winds caress your cheeks. Late at night : up and down, up and down, guard the hollow—a simple exercise in patience. A nation puts its faith in the mountains.
This performance links the belief in the mountains, the Réduit myth and security topos of Switzerland with the profit-driven economy of data storage in old military infrastructure. Using and remembering the visual representations of high-security data centres, the work addresses the ideological promise of the hollowed-out Alps: A place that was built for the storage and preservation of people, food and ammunition now houses the corporate data of multinationals.
Flip a coin long enough, both sides come up tails.
Performed at migma Performance Tage 2025.
