Josephine Turalba - Mighty Ballistic in Münster

Mighty Ballistic
Josephine Turalba performed at 13th of September 2011 in Münster, Germany with her Sculpture Bullet Dress. She looked like an Angel and walked from the railway station to the main church of Münster.
Sculpture Bullet Dress made of .45mm, .38mm caliber bullet and shotgun shells
Performance walking and interacting with people in the streets of Münster.
Turalba said about her Mighty Ballistic Performance:
"Death cultivates visibility --- what has disappeared is the loudest that calls for us. What can be seen is what is no longer there. Trauma triggers the search for that inner voice that calls us to slow down and mend. We re-member a time, re-visit a place, and re-live it in a chosen manner, re-tell our stories, healing our traumas, re-building and re-situating the self on stable grounds.
In 2006, my father was murdered, shot with 4 bullets. His body was dumped on the side of a provincial road; by a hoodlum gang, headed by an ex-military intelligence man, victimizing desperate men in their senior years. Unconsciously I was preoccupied with the image of the last moments of him falling to his death. I bring to the forefront the idea of being a prey, the target of violence.
The excessive death toll continues on today with continuous unsolved killings and abductions all over the country, personal and political. The prevailing actuality is that human life is cheap. Money is valued more than human life."
Further Pix at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233342946716671.67414.10000122903131...
Further Information: http://www.josephineturalba.net/markedforevervideo.html
This documentation is a rough draft video from the KiöR show // Berliner Kunstverein. Made by Ruppe Koselleck (c) 2011

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