Kau Mass - Performance by Anna Weberberger - Church of Ignorance 2024

"Kau Mass", performance  at Church of Ignorance  Festival at 5-7 Sept 2024, DH5 Cultur Club - Ars Electronica Festival 2024

Yoga, meditation, palo santo, raves, chewing gum. Multiple crises require multiple solutions. Chewing gum for five minutes reduces stress and stimulates blood flow to the brain. What may appear to be boredom, arrogance or coolness, Anna Weberberger turns into a daily ritual of an individual or collective nature in the Church of Ignorance.

In times of neoliberalism instead of Catholicism, it is active inactivity that promises as much inner peace as five asanas in the morning or downloading the latest health app. Every evening, Anna Weberberger chews Hubba Bubba gum for inner contemplation. She unwraps a strip of gum, begins to chew and invites the assembled community to participate. Rhythmic jaws produce viscous saliva. The ruminating search for stability congeals into a tasteless chewing mass.