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MERGING GROUNDS, PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011 |
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/ AUGUST 17th-24th 2011
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MERGING GROUNDS, PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011 will showcase 12 prominent performance artists and artist groups from home and abroad. Each of which will show works or exhibitions created with consideration for the buildings unique exhibition space. The festivals vision is to create a platform for a meeting between visual arts and performativity in which different genres will be presented and processed by using four general categories: LIVE, PRODUCTION, REMAKE and DOCUMENTATION. These four categories, which within the genre of performance constantly merge, are presented here separately in order to lay bare the field s complexities
/ SEE A VIDEO FROM THE FESTIVAL HERE
MERGING GROUNDS, PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2011 will offer its audience a vibrant program of activities taking place throughout the building, consisting of daily live performances, large installations, some of which are moved into and inhabited by artists, exhibitions that address documentation of performance as media, live reinterpretations of key figures from within the history of performance art, a concert and a debate. The audience will also have ample opportunity to delve into the performative and the spectacular, engage in debate, as well as experience performance from a historical perspective and not least participate in the production of the festival's performance works
/ SEE THE PROGRAM HERE
LIVE focuses on the living and moving, and is the stage for the presentation of six performance projects that range from a whole week to just minutes in duration. The artists/artist groups invited are: Tori Wrånes (NO), Leif Holmstrand (SE), TFDExperience (DK/SE), Trancendens Dilettante (DK), The Mob (SE/DK), RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN with friends (DK) consisting of Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Gry Raaby, Marie Topp and Jara Maria Høgsberg who invite Cecilie Ullerup-Schmidt, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Charlotte Bergmann Johansen and Sara Hamming.
In PRODUCTION the focus is on physical presence and the category features two artists whose performance project spans and evolves throughout the festival period. The invited artists are: Fredrik Auster (SE) and Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (DK).
In REMAKE we present two performances that address past performances and takes subjects such as repetition, memory and interpretation up. The invited artists are: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (DK) and Children of Guts (SE).
With DOCUMENTATION we desire to tackle the complex task of documenting a live performance as well as direct our attention to the beginning of European performance art of the 1960s. This is achieved through two exhibition projects by: Klara Hobza (CE) who invites Virg (DK), Kirsten Justesen (DK), Abbie Hoffman / the Yippies (USA), Till Krause (DE), Leopold Kessler (AT), Stine Marie Jacobsen (DK) and Bob Braine (USA). Also Yvette Brackman (USA/DK) who presents Gina Pane (FR/IT). |
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