Photo documentation from live performance.

In the performance Whip It Good, Jeannette Ehlers reenacts one of the most brutal methods of punishment during slavery - the whipping. By doing this she creates a simple yet tension-filled rebellion against the colonial past. The audience is invited to participate in the lashing of a white canvas to offer a form of bodily experience of the act of whipping and, in turn, reflect on the atrocities of history and on coloniality. Whit It Good follows the footsteps of colonialism and maps a modern reverberation of the transatlantic slave trade through a series of actions that result in a series of new action paintings. Whip It Good was first performed in May 2013 in connection with the groundbreaking seminar BE.BOP (Black Europe Body Politics), initiated by Dominican curator and decolonize thinker Alanna Lockward / Art Labour Archives, in Berlin. It has since been performed in a large number of venues.