EVA & ADELE: 'We invented our own sex'
They are a living artwork who claim to have come from the future in a time machine. Is Britain ready for Eva and Adele? Helen Pidd spends a day with Berlin's oddest couple
Helen Pidd
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 November 2011 17.32 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/01/eva-and-adele-interviewIf you've attended the opening of a major art show in the last 20 years, chances are you will have come across a striking couple who stand out even in the attention-seeking art world. Completely bald, made up like macaws, and dressed like surrealist pantomime dames, the duo sweep through openings, stealing the limelight with their extra-terrestrial looks and otherworldly frocks.
EVA & ADELE (they insist on the ampersand and capitals) might not actually be part of the exhibition in question, but it doesn't matter. They are always on show. "Wherever we are is museum," runs one of the Austro-German couple's Denglish catchphrases. Another is "futuring", a reference to their claim to have come from the future, having landed their "time machine" in Berlin just before the wall fell in 1989.
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November 2, 2011, 10:46 am
Uncovering the Transsexual Performance Art Duo (And Married Couple) EVA & ADELE
http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2011/11/02/uncovering-the-transsexual-performance-art-duo-and-married-couple-eva-adele/Ever been at an art fair, caught a glimpse of pink and lace, and wondered who those two decked-out old ladies were? Well, the Guardian's Adrian Searle has a profile of EVA & ADELE, the omnipresent performance art duo whose gender-bending puts even Genesis Breyer P-Orridge to shame. Here's what we learned.
The bullet points below summarize a career of non-stop performance art, plus point out some of the ladies's complaints with the performance art community — watch out Gilbert & George!
