Performance and installations. A transformative exhibition project in Vaduz, Konstanz, Zürich, Bern and Sierre 2010 and 2011
The performance art hat got through many transformations since the last 30 years. From the co-presence of the body with the audience in a more theatrical and actionist way in the 1970ties and 1980ties, performance got more medial, conceptual and toward spatial installation within the last 10 years. In 2003, a exhibition in Innsbruck, Wien, Leipzig and Köln search the notion of the ‘performative installation’ around the thesis, that many installations in contemporary art grow from actions in the social context or from performance action in the sence of Judith Butler.
The exhibition projects In the belly of the whale wants to search the medias of performance and installation by the notion of ‘transformation’ from one medium to the other and by conceptual and poetical thinking between the two media. Every artist invited has at least to events in order to transform his work from one location to the other.
The project involves therefore 5 different exhibition spaces:
- Kunstraum Vaduz, a classic white cube, run by a cultural manager and a artistic comitee (artits, curators, experts), existing since 2002 for an event with Victorine Müller, Simon Kindle, Sophie Hofer in June/July 2010 (www.kunstraum.li)
- K3 Off space in Zürich, 1st of October til 17th of October 2010 with performatif installations of Pe Lang, Dorothea Rust, Berclaz de Sierre, Davor Ljubicic and screenings of Denis Romanoswki, Januz Baldyga and Stuart Sherman. (www.k3zh.ch)
- Marks Blond Bern, an experimental artists space in Bern, run by Daniel Suter, existing since 2000. (see www.marksblond.com) for an event from 11 of November 2010 till 28 of november 2010 with an installation of Maly/Schilliger and a sound installation of Christoph Fellay.
- Kunstverein Konstanz e.V., /D an artists space, run by a group of artists, experts and curators with a long tradition since the 19 century within a historical building. http://wwww.kunstverein-konstanz.de for an exhibition and performance event with Katja Schenker, Berclaz de Sierre and Janusz Baldyga in February March 2011
- Chateau Mercier, Sierre, a historical summer residence with impressive park in Sierre, founded by a rich bourgeois family in 1902, now owned by a public foundation and open to literary and theatre performance and film festival. www.chateaumercier.ch with all the participants of the different évents before in April 2011.
- Other art spaces have shown already their interest to continue to project.
The idea of the exhibition started in Vaduz in June 2010 (opening 28th of may 2010, finissage 18 of July 2010) is to transform the format of the show itself by performance and installation settings of 13 artists through these 5 locations, involving for every location a different of artists, but joining them together in the end. The project will end in August 2011. Every artist will be involved at two sites.
The artists that to be asked to join the project with performance or installation are:
- Januz Baldyga, Warszaw, www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/wy_wy_baldyga_csw_2008
- Berclaz de Sierre, Sierre, www.accrochages.ch/f/archives.php?action=getEntity&entityId=217&magazinId=61
- Christoph Fellay, Orsières VS, www.christophefellay.com
- Ingrid Kaeser, Zürich/Sierre (project assistant), www.ingridkaeser.net
- Simon Kindle and Sophie Hofer, Vaduz, http://www.act-perform.net/kindlehofer08.html
- Pe Lang, Bern, www.pelang.ch
- Davor Ljubicic, Konstanz, www.davor-ljubicic.com
- Valerian Maly/Klara Schillinger Bern, www.malyschilliger.ch, www.machfeld.net/farang/live/kunsthalle/kunsthaus.html and www.ch-arts.net/script/charts.Newsletter?callmode=detail&id=378
- Victorine Müller Zürich, /www.likeyou.com/victorinemueller
- Denis Romanovski, Stockholm/Minsk, www.romanovski.se/ www.wizya.net/inter4/denis.htm
- Dorothea Rust, performance artist and dancer, Zürich, http://www.likeyou.com/dorothearust
- Katja Schenker, performance artist, installations Zürich, http://www.likeyou.com/katjaschenker
(see on the German page “Kunstschaffende / Kuratorin”)
The curator and project manager of the project will be Sibylle Omlin, Sierre/Zürich (see biography), assistance will be provided by the young artist (Ingrid Kaeser Zürich). There will be a magazine/fanzine during the exhibition with several issues and a webside.
Graphic designer for the project is Jérome Lanon, Biel CH.
This project is supported by
City of Bern
Burgergemeinde Bern
Liechtensteinische Landesbank
Stiftung Fürstlicher Commerzienrat Guido Feger
County of Solothurn
Sibylle Omlin, 18th September 2010.