Penck, A. R. (Ralf Winkler); Wolf Kahlen
«Attention Please, Camera Rolling»

Alongside the fleeting, flowing images from a panning video camera M. Freudenberg and a.r. penck perform music. When Kahlen stops the camera's movement and fixes it on a random image from within the gallery, penck's rhythms also freeze. He gets up and begins painting on a pane of glas placed before the still image of a monitor – with the structure of the image, against or beyond it. 15 pictures are produced this way; some of them stimulate other GDR artists present (a.o. Strwalde) to pre-empt penck and begin working on a pane of glass themselves.
The performance took place in the presence of an audience from East and West following Kahlen's illicit exhibition «Licht-Be-Zeichnungen» (Light-Significations) in the private East-Berlin gallery Schweinebraden and was the first video demonstration conceived as a performance in the GDR. Some of the equipment had to come to the East via the diplomatic service, some of it (painted camouflage green) reached the gallery through a psychologist from the East German Army NVA.
Catalog OSTranenie 1997