Order/Disorder

ORDER/DISORDER
Esther Perbandt, 2025
4-day live performance

A live performance in which the artist becomes part of her own installation. Over four consecutive days, Esther Perbandt inhabits a textile environment made of 500 black cotton strips, each five meters long, originally woven into a dense, ordered structure.

Through repetitive gestures—sorting, separating, entangling, releasing—the work shifts between control and collapse. Order dissolves into disorder, only to be reassembled again. The body becomes both tool and subject, embedded in a material that resists permanence.

Originally conceived as a static textile piece, the work was transformed after being damaged by water, gaining new meaning through physical engagement.