Dedicated to Bas Jan Ader(1942-1975) who was lost at sea while attempting a single-handed west-east crossing of the Atlantic in a 13ft pocket cruiser, a modified Guppy 13 named “Ocean Wave”. The passage was part of an art performance titled “In Search of the Miraculous”. Radio contact broke off three weeks into the voyage, and Ader was presumed lost at sea. The boat was found after 10 months, floating partially submerged 150 miles West-Southwest of the coast of Ireland. His body was never found.

Feix performance combines video, performance and life music. Feix sings tender monologues and screams terrible odds while sitting at the top of the construction of a factory building. Underneath her is a video projected on the floor, showing Feix burying her face, her head and giving over her body to the sea: The rising tide is floating in and Feix disappeares in the sea.

The remake tells the story of a one woman odysee trying to get the infinite connection to the world. Feix was invisible trying to enter the exhibition space from the outside high ceiling windows. In terryfing breakage of glas Feix enters, sits down at the window sill and write letters. Feix video of she floating away into the sea is screened at the floor. Softly falls each letter silent and frozen out of her hands into the hands of the visitor.

Feix locks up the audience into the dark, enters the room by trapping in a door, two dobberman dog in her company. Dust and little light. Orders to spit on the floor. Feix licks it up from the floor.Orders to spit in her hand. Feix puts it on her face like make up. This goes on for a while till someone neglects to spit. Feix cuts down a bambus wall which reveals playing kids on a kind of island. The kids feel attacked and eff and blind the audience. Endless shouts and screms till the audience keeps left alone.

2005 Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam NL, part of the perfomrnace art exhibition Resonance

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