Control your body, video installation

The same video runs in synchronization on the two monitors. To the ever-repeated techno-beat of the refrain, Control Your Body, Let the Beat Control Your Body-Com'on dance with me, a female figure in a black sequined uniform begins to move the black pom-poms in an increasingly rhythmic and hypnotic fashion. She is a true pop-idol, a Venus of Willendorf, earth-goddess of the disco. Her pom-poms, which are intended for cheering on teams at american stadiums, are brandished at us, to coach us, to hypnotize. She indoctrinates us ever again: control yourself; let yourself be controlled.

Excerpt of a text by Frank Thinnes.

The artist duo Stoll Wachall studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (HBKsaar) and graduated 1999 as Meisterschülerinnen with Ulrike Rosenbach. In 1997 they founded the artist duo Stoll Wachall. Both of the artists are lecturer for performance art at the HBKsaar and teach freehand-drawing in the faculty of architecture at the HTW Saarbrücken. They have received numerous awards and scholarships, e.g. Casa Baldi, L' Accademia Tedesca Villa Massimo 2003 and SAARSTIP for Fine Arts in Berlin 2005. They have participated in exhibitions, performances and video festivals at home as well as abroad. As media-performers they design an interdisciplinary collective dialog between the consciousness of the real body and a media generated virtual reality.