Archive: m e a n w h i l e . . .
Performance art is a powerful medium – the concentration of all possibilities into a short time span – an intense impression for the memory as it is the sole enduring constant of this art form. That’s the cliché.
But we are interested in the spaces in-between, the carrying and connecting elements between the intermittent performative acts, an enhanced form of the visibility and visualisation of performance.
the carrying structure
Performance art consists of performative acts. Within them, artistic expression condenses, concentrates, and accentuates – charged with the pressure of fugacity – for a brief moment. Thinking in these moments hangs so unassailably general over the concept of performance that it should already be suspicious for this reason alone.
Performances do not emerge out of nowhere and certainly do not just disappear into nowhere once a performative act is over. They build upon: a carrying structure of thoughts, engagement, development, exchange with colleagues, images, influences, discourses, concepts, and infinitely more.
This structure is the foundation for the actualisation of performance; the individual performative acts are concentration and transformation points in a continuous development. Even when the framework conditions for performative acts do not take this into account at all times, the relations and emphases between structure and performative act are as multifaceted and complex as the individual artistic positions themselves.
the platform
In order to make this relationship between performative act and structure tangible, an expansion of the performative act is required, a different form than the exhibition and more than a hybrid of the two. A format that is not entirely formulated in advance, a format that develops parallel with the programme and can expand: a platform – a form of the expanded visibility of the performance, a form of another visualisation of performance.
meanwhile… thereby comprises a diverse programme including performative and processual works, lectures, public discussions and talks, a research project on the issue of archiving performative art forms, and the foundation of an archive for performance and process art.
m e a n w h i l e . . .
PERFORMANCE FOCUS 2016
meanwhile… is not a programme.
meanwhile… is a question.
What happens to performance when the spotlight of attention wanders on, when the performative act is over? What does performance enable? How does it develop further? What will we find when we investigate the spaces in-between?
And what is our motivation to lend a fragile duration to a medium whose most important quality is the brief presence in the moment it happens?
PART 3 OF MEANWHILE...:
Aura Undercover: 15 09 2016
performance evening and exhibition
exhibition duration: 16 09 2016 - 01 10 2016
participating artist: Cornelia Fachinger, Remigius Gnetner/Janine MariaSchneider, Barbara Herold, Lena Lieselotte Schuster, S_A_R Projektbüro: Lisa Biedlingmaier, Frédéric Ehlers, Hannah Mevis, Martina Wegener, Georg Winter
concept: Cornelia Fachinger, Lena Lieselotte Schuster
events:
01 10 2016: Lange Nacht der Museen
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Past Performance-Evenings of meanwhile...:
Objective. The Artist is Absent: 21 01 2016
performance evening and exhibition
duration of the exhibition: 22 01 2016 - 13 02 2016
participating artists: Daniela Grabosch, Angelika Wischermann, Elisabeth Falkinger, Elisabeth von Samsonow
lecture and discussion: „Before, now, after: Performance im Moment und in der Zeit”
Sibylle Omlin, Directrice, ECAV, Sierre (Schweiz)
concept: Christiane Krejs
Sibylle Omlin, Directrice, ECAV, Sierre (Schweiz)
concept: Christiane Krejs
Frame it. On the Relation of Action and Document: 25 02 2016
performance, exhibition, lecture and talk
opening: 25 02 2016
exhibition duration: 26 02 2016 - 05 03 2016
participating artists: Ana Mendes, Iris Dittler, Bettina Kattinger, Andrej Polukord, Sööt/Zeyringer
concept: Marlies Surtmann
events:
lecture by Pascale Grau, discussion with Pascale Grau, Olivia Jaques (moderation), Sabine Marte, Romy Rüegger und Angela Strohberger
lecture by Pascale Grau, discussion with Pascale Grau, Olivia Jaques (moderation), Sabine Marte, Romy Rüegger und Angela Strohberger
Mon 29 02 2016, 5pm - 7pm: Workshop with Iris Dittler
