Josephine Turalba – "Mighty Ballistic "

Josephine Turalba trug für Ihre Performance ein Engelskostüm, welche die Philipinische Künstlerin aus Patronenhülsen und militarianen Materialien gefertigt hatte. In dem von westfälischen Passanten als Todesengel bezeichneten "Kostüm" schritt Turalba am 13. September 2011 einen Parcours vom Hauptbahnhof bis zum Dom von Münster.
Turalba ist aktuell Stipendiatin von Schöppingen und wurde im Kontext der Reihe KiöR (Kunst im öffentlichen Raum) des Berliner Kunstvereins gezeigt. www.josephineturalba.com

Mighty Ballistic
Josephine Turalba performed at 13th of September 2011 in Münster, Germany with her Sculpture Bullet Dress. She looked like an Angel and walked from the railway station to the main church of Münster.
Sculpture Bullet Dress made of .45mm, .38mm caliber bullet and shotgun shells
Performance walking and interacting with people in the streets of Münster.
Turalba said about her Mighty Ballistic Performance:
"Death cultivates visibility --- what has disappeared is the loudest that calls for us. What can be seen is what is no longer there. Trauma triggers the search for that inner voice that calls us to slow down and mend. We re-member a time, re-visit a place, and re-live it in a chosen manner, re-tell our stories, healing our traumas, re-building and re-situating the self on stable grounds.
In 2006, my father was murdered, shot with 4 bullets. His body was dumped on the side of a provincial road; by a hoodlum gang, headed by an ex-military intelligence man, victimizing desperate men in their senior years. Unconsciously I was preoccupied with the image of the last moments of him falling to his death. I bring to the forefront the idea of being a prey, the target of violence.
The excessive death toll continues on today with continuous unsolved killings and abductions all over the country, personal and political. The prevailing actuality is that human life is cheap. Money is valued more than human life."

Video clip a Youtube.