Hidden Self embodies an anomaly within the office desk located in the entrance area of the Storage Museum. The desk and its surroundings are adopted unchanged and in their found condition, function as a stage set.

While the desk, as a stage element, represents a real spatial situation incorporated into the performance—where coffee residues, papers, and other items suggest the bureaucratic everyday life of the museum—this situation merges within the performance with my appearance as a figure. I take on the form of a nomadic entity, one that can be understood as an extra-societal being. Defined through the sculptural objects I wear, which form the shell of a strange wanderer: a hat made of filamentous algae, a beard of feathers, and a backpack carrying various elements that resist clear attribution but reveal recognizable components such as parts of a safety vest, microphone heads, dyed textiles, and fur.

As a wanderer who appears to be settling into the desk after a long journey—yet who could just as well have grown out of the desk itself—I distance myself from my surroundings through the appearance and  absurd positioning within the desk. At the same time, merging with the environment, the entire scene turns into an installation. The alienation of the situation is pushed to an extreme through singing the pop song Hidden Self. Hidden Self  ultimately addresses the concealed and seeks above all to make its fragility visible: a hidden self within the space or the desk—an entity alien to society, yet through the act of singing a pop song, caught in the contradiction between hiding and revealing, shifting from a hermit into an urban spirit.