Image: Museum Tinguely, Basel
Ernestyna Orlowska will present her performance ‘Make Your Body Your Machine’ at Museum Tinguely in Basel on Saturday, 29 August 2026. The performance is scheduled as part of ‘Labouring Bodies’, a programme or exhibition framework at the museum addressing the relationship between bodies, work and machine-driven systems.
The available announcement identifies Orlowska as the performer and places the event at Museum Tinguely, the Basel institution named for the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely and known through its focus on kinetic and machine-related art. No further information about the running dates or full scope of ‘Labouring Bodies’ is provided in the supplied material.
According to a preview published by Kunstbulletin, Orlowska’s performance centres on a ‘Just Eat’ delivery package carried on her back. The publication describes the action as an encounter that is both comic and desperate, using the delivery object to evoke the pressures placed on workers in the gig economy.
In Kunstbulletin’s account, the performance presents a cycle of physical demands: the body must be optimised in order to remain capable of working, deliver food and earn enough to pay for food. The description also points to a breaking point, suggesting that Orlowska’s action treats exhaustion and bodily resistance as central elements rather than incidental effects.
The performance therefore connects the practical mechanics of food delivery with the broader title ‘Make Your Body Your Machine’. Its emphasis is on the body as a working instrument—required to sustain continuous performance while navigating the contradiction between delivering meals and being able to afford them. The supplied material does not specify the performance’s duration, start time, ticketing arrangements or whether additional presentations are planned.
‘Make Your Body Your Machine’ takes place at Museum Tinguely in Basel on 29 August 2026, within ‘Labouring Bodies’.
