Mia Maljojoki’s performance “1000 STARDUST” is for and about the people of Munich. And it is a project that wants to investigate what can happen in 24 hours in the underground station Münchner Freiheit.
On site is a picture installation consisting of 1000 hexagonal buttons in a wide variety of human skin tones. These buttons, which appear skin-coloured in light, glow like stars in the dark. Initially, the buttons form a uniform surface like a giant honeycomb. This refers to the togetherness of people, their common nature: we are all one.
During the 24 hours, artist Mia Maljojoki and her colleague, performance artist Monika Gomis, perform and act on site. The individual honeycombs/hexagons, all numbered on the back, are distributed to passers-by and carried into the city from Münchner Freiheit. The focus here is on individuality: everyone has their own path, their own experiences, their own skin colour. The image of the microcosm ‘honeycomb’ is turned into the idea of a universal cosmos: “1000 STARDUST”.
Mia Maljojoki, born in 1970 in Joensuu, Finland, lives and works in Munich.
