I am sitting at a large table in the Museum Folkwang peeling potatoes, together with Aleksandar Timotic, a 31-year-old opera singer from Serbia. He was selected to take part in Marina Abramovic‘s interdisciplinary performance course for a year. The world-famous artist joined the Folkwang University of the Arts in 2022 as the first Pina Bausch Visiting Professor. A mountain of potatoes pile up in front of us.
Timotic has time, as well as a potato peeler. He will sit at this table for six hours a day until July 9, peeling potatoes and singing opera arias (a self-contained piece for solo…
