Like a feather
performance & text, 2021

On View, Bagnolet, France
Documentation by Franziska Baumgartner

LIKE A FEATHER

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

US:
I mean Im not a Plumologist but lemme tell ya somethin’
I know bout feathers
One might think theyre simply just lookin all fine and gorgeous on a head of a big cock…I beg my pardon: rooster,
NO
Heres the thang

UK:
Feathers protect each bird from water, cold, heat, or used as camouflage to hide from other bigger, fatter, juicer cocks or roosters or birds of all kind of sorts…

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

Talkin bout feathers
What are you sleeping on, huh?
A straw bed in a shed?
I dont think so…
Maybe you sleepin on the hairy soft chest of your hunky monkey boyfriend
Nah!
You are sleepin your tight ass on a bed of feathers
Poor goos
ever thought bout that?
Poor good goos
ever felt guilty?
poor goody good goos
EVER in your life considered getting your hair pulled for a piece of soft white down bedsheets AND some even softer white pillows...as well made of...
SINGING: down down down your bed
Gently made of down
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a down

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

Even the ancient romans in the ancient roman empire used ancient roman feathers
But in a very unconventional way lets say
I mean thats what I heard from a friend just recently
Well he told me…that the Romans use to put a feather down their throat if they felt like throwing up
Maybe you should use just your dirty finger down your overeaten stupid mouth instead

I think it was my friend Silvan telling me this dirty history fun fact
Merci to Silvan for sharing this with us
this evening would have been impossible without you

Aaah! But at least the ancient romans had ancient roman sandals
Not like some savages wearing almost nothing but feathers on their heads
They walk barefoot haha
Those funny savages

Die Ideologie dass jemand draussen und jemand drinnen schläft
Die Ideologie dass jemand barfuss geht und jemand mit Schuhen

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

I wanna marry barefoot
With the warm light of the californian sunset on my dumb face
With flowers in my hair
Or even feathers
I am revolutionary
And I am married
WOooooh!

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

Or another anecdote from the history treasure box
How did our fathers fathers and fathers fathers fathers
you know our ancestors sign their documents
you know like the big fishs
the contracts
!no war-no more! letters

Any suggestions?
Ideas?
it was being signed with a feather
where would we be if they wouldnt had found anything so precise then a feather to sign such pieces of paper of importance and urgent matters?
I mean
we still might fight over Morgarten
or the prussian against the saxonian against the hessian against the baden baden from baden würtemberg against the souschwoben against some hillbilly hilly landscape with hills and boys named billy posing for billboards outside of…

Outside of...
somewhere advertising for a circus coming soon to town showing kidnapped indigeneous wearing feathers in their hair

I love those wild spirits
So natural
So authentic
So...oh whats the word
W I L D

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

Like kesha, selena gomez or any other random celeb finding themselves in an ethno makeover

I founded my own company
We are
WILD AT HEART

ONLY cause its sooooo sooooo cool, RIGHT?
aaaaaaaw i miss coachella this year
like literally sooo sooo much
aaaaw no coachella sucks
honestly
it does
really

No hawaiin poke bowls, no bali yoga, no...
CH: indische räucherstäbli zum d Hütte verpeschte.

Can I at least walk around half naked like some colombian art student?
Oh what was her name again...
SPANISH:
Ah Tanga Girl

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

Aaaaaaw I miss dressing up as an Indianerli
The good old times
the good old political uncorrectness times
the good old
the good
and the bad
political correctness destroyed my Indianerli Gwändli
As what shall I dress up now
huh?
Maybe as an old witch
no thats sexist
maybe as a blackface
no thats aaaah
well its just inappropriate
or maybe as an old white man
thats kinda appropiate and accurate
so authentic
so real
surreal
too real
for real?!?!

I mean honestly
Whats wrong with wearing something for carneval which is not your personal background? I dont get it. Or if twelve men are holding torches in their hand and wearing some fine garment like the Kukuks or Kuklux whatever Clan or however theyre being called, is it really that bad?!?!

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

I mean, ok back to feathers
whats wrong bout wearing feathers in my hair

SINGING:
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
at the Copa they fell in love!

…

I mean Lola without feathers in her hair?!
She’ld look awfull, terrible, DISGUSTING
I mean whos gonna wear my homemade DYI fake leather dress as Princess Pocahontas?!
Inoccent, naiv, infantil, savage
Savage princess
Savage, savage, savage

Oh what would I give to just be a savage

I worked on it
hard labour work
10 hours of work
or maybe less
but still…
Dammisiächnomal
läckmeramarsch
Ig ha chrampfet für dä huere Schiisdräck
seems pretty damn triste
this imagination of no cultural adopting-others-thang no more anymore not at all more
thats fucked up
thats fucking fucked up
that just fucked me hard
…
but not in a good way fellas
I mean I do get it ALRIGHT OK
some bad shit happened in the past
but thats long gone
long ago…
I mean VMCA is that bad?
Is that like real bad shit?
Im not sure
I mean it cant be that bad
I mean that indian, that native american dude
he was real, right?
he had to be real
cause he was authentic
like crazy authentic
no really
How bad can it be dressing up as Pocahontas Daddy…

…

Everywhere you go, you always take the feather with you
The feather, the feather with you

SINGING:
Here come big kahuna
He come gallopin’ up slowly
He got crazy horses
He one holy spirit
He got hair down to his knees
Got to be an indian
He just do what he please

ai I mean when they took Pocahontas from the new world into the old fart world of england of … time, first thing they did

UK:
Please do get undressed right away
so we would be able to dress you in fresh and fancy clothes
above all we are gonna change your name to something more
lets say, suitable for a lady of our status
…for example…
Rebecca Rolfe

US
I mean what an awful name that is…
she got a stupid hat, decorated with feathers
AND a fancy fart feathered fan to blow the old world farty air into her delicate new world face
well good luck on that Poca Poca Hontas

…

SINGING:
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a feather in the wind