‘Binding Chapel’, 2024,
now on view as part of
@ornamenta2024
in collaboration with
@messe_halle @_tatjanasturm
👔⛓️🔗🌀💞💚❣️
A wooden pavilion turned temporary chapel reinterprets traditional wedding elements – bridal fashion, metal, and the role of the officiant – to create a space that celebrates any type of relationship,
not just romantic ones.
The chapel was activated in a series of ceremonies officiating diverse connections. A video documenting these ‘binding ceremonies’ invites visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and species to use the chapel and celebrate all kinds of ‘-ships’- relationships, friendships, kinships, situationships…
The binding ceremonies feature artist
@kasperbosmans confessing his love to emperor Rudolf II, fashion designer
@haraldgloeoeckler_official honouring a life-long friendship with former nightclub owner
@laura_halding_hoppenheit , and
@sandrabaral celebrating her relationship with two alpacas from her farm
@alpakashofgutbuckenberg . Trend forecaster and master of ceremony
@lidewijedelkoort binds this group of people with a vowel scripted especially for Ornamenta’s Binding Chapel.
These new rituals of kinship are accompanied by
@smittness @sweet_boi_123 newest sound work for a portative organ.
(no alpacas have been harmed for this work, the animals were carefully accustomed to the unfamiliar environment and guided by their trainer, who made sure the animals did not experience any form of distress. The ceremony was held without viewers or visitors.)
Visit: ‘ Zum Eros:An exhibition on charisma, carriages and ceremonies’
Ewald-Steinle Pavillion, Wildpark Pforzheim
Thanks a million for having me
@happyhardcoreholland
@julesvandenlangenberg @wahl.katharina
& thank you
@dorrithderoode for supporting me during the making process
photography
@karolinasobel @sandervanwettum 
