Jewellery as Performance: on Gisbert Stach's Experiments with Jewellery and Life

Beyond the familiar image of jewellery as a constellation of material objects distributed across a human body, Stach's work explores jewellery in association with elementary processes like movement, growth, disintegration, simulation, behaviour. He regards such processes as constitutive elements of a lived and liveable life, and subjects them to an artistic analysis in the mode of performances tuned to the specific nature of jewellery. Stach's work provides rare insights into the performative dimension of jewellery.