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DIGGING OUT NEW STATEMENTS (under the influence of the full moon)
2017
action In Situ
Full HD | color | stereo | 16’58” | aspect ratio 16:9

– This simple action marks the beginning of the shovels usefulness, its invalidation and abandonment. Mayorga brings a premature end to the tool’s life and finishes the job in all four renouncing to the control tools represent over nature and therefore transforming him self from productive to unproductive and going from a sophisticated character to an “uncivilized” businessman.

Performed at the Martinskirche cemetery in the city of Cuxhaven, Germany on August 2017. This was the last documentation in the Digging Out New Statements series.

A black granite platte marks the spot where the shovel was buried

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DIGGING OUT NEW STATEMENTS
(under the influence of the full moon)
2008-2009
documented actions
HDV / color / stereo
running time: variable

The first place where this performance took place was at the main cemetery in the city of Braunschweig in 2007.

On an attempt to capture the multiple ways to describe this simple action and to explore its possible meanings, I buried more than fourteen shovels in different contexts. Three shovels were buried on the small graveyard. The towns name is Stuhr-Heiligenrode, Germany. 

Another one lies directly under the goal-keepers feet on this football field.

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