Olek alias Agata Oleksiak und ihre Häckel/Luftballon-Performances/Installationen (“Donated materials will be recycled through artistic transformation into new objects”) beim wunderbaren New Yorker Festival “Art in Odd Places 2009“: “I am crocheting a sculpture for my body, the ready-made. The “cover” completely redefines my movement and my identity – sexual, personal and cultural. Then I take the end of the twine and by ripping it apart, I start remaking it. When the “new” suit of armor is ready I am being exposed as an object. Then I put this hand-crocheted wearable sculpture onto my body and take the end of the cord and undo the ‘cover’ again and again. The artwork is destroyed as it is created, and created out of its own destruction.”
