Performance // Frame
Victor Alimpiev | Maria Jose Arjona | Karolin Back & Mira Bussemer | Kathryn Cornelius | Dennis Feser | Patrycja German | Nilbar Güres | Séverine Hubard | Jürgen Klauke | Vollrad Kutscher | Bjørn Melhus | Julia Oschatz | Johanna Reich | Ulrike Rosenbach | Amparo Sard | Ula Sickle | Annegret Soltau | Sebastian Stumpf | Herbert Weber | Eva Weingärtner | Paul Wiersbinski | Elizabeth Wurst
Galerie Anita Beckers
Opening: Saisonstart 04.09..2009, 7pm
With Life Performance by Eva Weingärtner
Sunday, 06.09.2009 Breakfast for Performance Lovers from 11 am
Exhibition duration: 04.09 - 31.10. 2009
Opening: Saisonstart 04.09..2009, 7pm
With Life Performance by Eva Weingärtner
Sunday, 06.09.2009 Breakfast for Performance Lovers from 11 am
Exhibition duration: 04.09 - 31.10. 2009
Satellit - Raum für junge Kunst, *Sebastian Stumpf - Site-specific Installation*
Technisches Rathaus Am Römerberg (zw. SCHIRN und Kunstverein)
Sebastian Stumpf / Site-specific Video-performance Installation
Opening: 05-09.2009, 5pm
Exhibition duration: 05.09. - 31.10.2009
Technisches Rathaus Am Römerberg (zw. SCHIRN und Kunstverein)
Sebastian Stumpf / Site-specific Video-performance Installation
Opening: 05-09.2009, 5pm
Exhibition duration: 05.09. - 31.10.2009
15 years after the symposium "LIFE IS ART ENOUGH - Performance and expanded art forms. One approach" - organized by Anita Beckers in collaboration with the Institute Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt - we would like to pick up the thread again in the gallery and through selected positions question the current situation of Performance as an artistic medium.. In a moment when the art market regenerates, artists whose work deals with one's own body and is commercially difficult, seem to trigger new critical discourses.
For the season start, Performance // Frame tries to pick up some thematic directions within Performance art and confront positions from the 70s with younger artists. In this context we feature works by Ulrike Rosenbach and Vollrad Kutscher, who already participated in the 1994 symposium.
"... .. The non-ambiguity and vagueness of the term [Performance] corresponds almost programmatically to a developing form of expression, which through one or another specific performance always ascertains enhancement.
If one follows the development of its history through the body-related performance of the 70s, one comes to a, preserved until today, fundamental rebellious attitude, which could be traced back to the actions, happenings and events of 60s (Fluxus) and to the actions of the Dadaists in the 20s.
Critical, anarchist, individualist, often multimedia and communitarian, Aesthetical utterances were developed against fragile and questionable cultural and social conventions.
Thus today performance refuses in most cases to be an easily consumable art commodity ..." (Vollrad Kutscher, 1992)
If one follows the development of its history through the body-related performance of the 70s, one comes to a, preserved until today, fundamental rebellious attitude, which could be traced back to the actions, happenings and events of 60s (Fluxus) and to the actions of the Dadaists in the 20s.
Critical, anarchist, individualist, often multimedia and communitarian, Aesthetical utterances were developed against fragile and questionable cultural and social conventions.
Thus today performance refuses in most cases to be an easily consumable art commodity ..." (Vollrad Kutscher, 1992)
For the season start, Performance // Frame tries to pick up some thematic directions within Performance art and confront positions from the 70s with younger artists. In this context we feature works by Ulrike Rosenbach and Vollrad Kutscher, who already participated in the 1994 symposium.
As a group show, Performance // Frame does not explore one concept of performance, as each artist works on a very own subjective concept, but rather looks into the richness of performative processes.
As every other exhibition, it can only offer an incomplete snapshot of the artistic development of this medium in recent years. Despite this, three directions seem to stand out of the entire exhibition. Namely, women performers concerned with Post-feministic issues, performers concentrated essentially on body and space issues - with strong focus on the measurement of space through one's body - and finally, a direction which relates more with the stage and linguistic tradition.
To what extent do the technical recording possibilities of the works redefine the notion of performance is a scientific question which we want to pursue in an artist talk conducted by Prof. Dr. Christian Janecke with Jürgen Klauke in the gallery space. Performance // Frame represents though an attempt to understand and give performance art more attention, and will lead to a new symposium next year.
As every other exhibition, it can only offer an incomplete snapshot of the artistic development of this medium in recent years. Despite this, three directions seem to stand out of the entire exhibition. Namely, women performers concerned with Post-feministic issues, performers concentrated essentially on body and space issues - with strong focus on the measurement of space through one's body - and finally, a direction which relates more with the stage and linguistic tradition.
To what extent do the technical recording possibilities of the works redefine the notion of performance is a scientific question which we want to pursue in an artist talk conducted by Prof. Dr. Christian Janecke with Jürgen Klauke in the gallery space. Performance // Frame represents though an attempt to understand and give performance art more attention, and will lead to a new symposium next year.
Image:
Paul Wiersbinski
Videostill from the video "Mr. Babyape is Passion", 2009
09:59 min,
Color, Stereo, DV, 4:3
Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers | Frankfurt
Paul Wiersbinski
Videostill from the video "Mr. Babyape is Passion", 2009
09:59 min,
Color, Stereo, DV, 4:3
Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers | Frankfurt
Galerie Anita Beckers
Frankenallee 74
60327 Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 739 009 - 67
Frankenallee 74
60327 Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 739 009 - 67
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