Artstravaganza' at Karl Lagerfeld's 'Modemethode' Finissage with Chicks on Speed.
Artist collective Chicks on Speed staged an extraordinary performance at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn on September 12th as closure of the Karl Lagerfeld 'Modemethode' exhibition.
The Chicks on Speed contributed music to Chanel`s fashion shows and used to work with Karl Lagerfeld. This evening`s site-specific performance-installation was merging music, performance, art and fashion, making it an Artformance,
Euphoria, FOOTwerk, Quartetris, Data recycling, high heel shoe guitars and other 'Objektinstruments' made the interactive show a colourful, multilayered thematic trip through Chicks on Speed`s dadaistic universe.
The Artformance also included a fashion show in which models walked right through the audience, eliminating the borders between viewers and stage. The performance transported a notion of a 'liberation' of fashion, making it more accessible, fun and disconnecting it from brands and money.
They also addressed discourses of surveillance, civil rights and gender / patriarchy.
Chicks on Speed is a music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, when members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and New Yorker Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
Though Chicks on Speed reached cult status throughout the 2000s as catalysts of the musical genre electroclash, Chicks on Speed were actually founded as a multidisciplinary art group working in performance art, electronic dance music, collage graphics, textile design and fashion.
