Tower, 50 min. performance at the opening of Masculinities,

Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, November 2001.

From the beginning of the show I was lying inside one of the big cardboard boxes dressed up in my Kings costume. Suddenly I came out of the box and started to build a tower from all the boxes and tape.

I was standing and climbing around on top of the tower as I was building, slowly lifting myself up towards the ceiling. When the tower was so tall that I no longer could reach the boxes I fetched my long homemade lance, which I from then on used to grab the cardboard boxes. When the tower was about 5 meters tall I finished it by building a wall around the edge with arrow slits on top.  I was lying hidden and trapped alone in the top of my own-build tower. The only sign of me, was when I was lying rocking, and the whole tower was swaying.

This performance was obviously a comment on the fairy tale about Rapunzel, as well a satire on the traditional associations between male potency, power, the act of construction and high positions.