Samsonie - Museion

Color video documenting the 24-hour performance in which Sven Sachsalber stayed in a closed room together with a cow named Samsonie. Getting the cow into a 4×4-meter room was not easy, but getting her out again proved to be far more difficult. During their time together, the animal—one could almost say—developed an intimate bond with Sven. Surprisingly, the atmosphere was very peaceful and filled with mutual affection.
The performance was documented in real time using a laptop video.

“In August 2011 I spent 24 Hours with a cow in a domestic Room in Malles, Italy. The performance was inspired by Joseph Beuys’s Performance » I like America and America likes me«. The Performance is documented with a real time video.” (Project-portfolio, 2012)

Artist

Sachsalber, Sven

Schlanders, 1987-05-08 - Vienna, 2020-12-12

Artwork details

Date

2011

Medium

performance

duration

1 min

54 sec

Technique

Videographic Performance Documentation

Keywords

ART, BODY, TIME

Project

Research project Sven Sachsalber

Collection

Artist’s Estate, Laudes

Object number

334

Sachsalber, Sven

Born in 1987 in South Tyrol, died 2020 in Vienna. He worked between New York und Europe. After graduating in business economics in Bologna, from 2010 to 2012 he studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London with Professor Richard Wentworth. In 2014 he was awarded the Premio New York by Italy’s Ministry of Culture and in 2019 the Paul Flora Prize. His works are held in Bolzano in the Museion’s collection and in the public collection of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol, as well as by private collections in Europe and in the USA.