Performance

 Vegas-Lady delivering announcements over the microphone, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, October 2022

Vegas-Lady delivering announcements over the microphone, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, October 2022

Invited to expertise at a speed-date swap meet for discourse in twenty-seven languages, Daniel Moldoveanu looks askance at the doomed pageantry of trying to get one’s point across. 

 Deborah Hazler,  That Rant and Rave,  2020. Photo: Franzi Kreis

Deborah Hazler, That Rant and Rave, 2020. Photo: Franzi Kreis

Performance artist Deborah Hazler elevates grumbling – about everything from cruel politicians to cat videos – to the level of fine art at ImPulsTanz 2021.

 Photo: eSeL.at

Photo: eSeL.at

Why do you use paintings in your performances?

 Eating the Wall Street Journal (3rd version) , 2000, Mixed media installation with performance, SculptureCenter New York

Eating the Wall Street Journal (3rd version), 2000, Mixed media installation with performance, SculptureCenter New York

Whether calling himself “The Friendliest Black Artist in America”, eating the Wall Street Journal piece by piece, or crawling up the entirety of New York’s Broadway, the American artist William Pope.L applies pressure in exactly those places where race and capitalism meet in the American unconscious. Adrienne Edwards writes on Pope.L‘s strategies of abjection, precarity, and play.

Discussion with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Matthias Lilienthal and Tino Sehgal

 "There and Back“, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2010

"There and Back“, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2010

Portrait Christian Falsnaes

 BMW Tate Live 2015 – "If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?" Olivia Hemingway ©Tate Photography

BMW Tate Live 2015 – "If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?" Olivia Hemingway ©Tate Photography

Last weekend, dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz hypothetically transformed Tate Modern into Musée de la danse. Our editor-at-large was harbouring some reservations about this new democratic participatory art, but found it surprisingly moving.

 Leseperformance  

Leseperformance

 

Skulpi III Release at Spike Berlin, January 2015

 Performance by Adam Linder

Performance by Adam Linder

A panel discussion (in the afternoon), an exhibition, readings, and performances (in the evening), Spike Vienna, 2013

 Levi Hicks  

Levi Hicks

 

Curators Daniel Baumann and Jay Sander confess their secret love for the museum, discuss the (alleged?) power of the collector, and the reawakened interest in performance. Withholding that the latter’s successful combination of popular event with a claim to art is what makes it so attractive to museums. In 2012, Jay Sanders co-curated the Whitney Biennial together with Elisabeth Sussman. Daniel Baumann is one of the curators of this year’s Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.

 The Force The Movie The Vague, mit Kööt Juurak CIAP, Hasselt 2011

The Force The Movie The Vague, mit Kööt Juurak
CIAP, Hasselt 2011

In the last years, the art world fell in love with live and time-based practices. Since then, a lot has been said and written about performance and performativity, but too little time has been given to listen to those whose work has been stretching the tight disciplinary confinements that shape dance, performance and visual arts. That is what Filipa Ramos sought to do in asking the Swedish performance-related artist-dancer-choreographer-producer-writer Mårten Spångberg to give us his thoughts on four concepts: Space, Rhythm, Expectation and Embodiment. The result of this encounter can hardly be described, as ideas, concepts and words sprang out all over the place without restraint and with such overwhelming speed that capturing it in writing was a performative feat in itself.

 Nancy Spector & Tino Sehgal  Foto: David Velasco

Nancy Spector & Tino Sehgal 
Photo: David Velasco

Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, on This Progress (2006) by Tino Sehgal