Zeig Her, Führ Vor, Tausch Ein - Presence Is The Artist FIRST VISIT • TAUSCH EIN Friday • October 14 19:00 Bar afterwards A Talk on the Impromptu by David Medalla, introduced by Adam Nankervis, followed by a Participatory Performance at General Public The evening has been organised by Lian Ladia and Jerlyn Jareunpoon and is part of the programming at General Public. It coincides with »Zeig her‘s« attempt to reflect on performative practices in art, and will be a kick off to the two days of presentations and talks. SECOND VISIT • FÜHR VOR Saturday • October 15 15:00 – 20:00 or later Bar afterwards Discoteca Flaming Star, Voin de Voin and Ute Waldhausen peforming; Johannes Paul Raether, Ulrike Müller, Kerstin Stakemeier, Anita DiBianco, Ian White presenting, responding and discussing at Basso Studio. THIRD VISIT • ZEIG HER Sunday • October 16 15:00 – 20:00 or later Bar afterwards Johannes Paul Raether and Ulrike Müller performing; Discoteca Flaming Star, Voin de Voin and Ute Waldhausen, Kerstin Stakemeier, Anita DiBianco, Ian White responding, presenting, discussing at General Public Moderator, Master of Ceremony and Host: Stefan Pente   The discussions will be held in English.   General Public Schönhauser Allee 167c U2 - Senefelder Platz Basso Studio Köpenicker Str. 187 / 188 U1 - Schlesisches Tor   ------------------------- Organised by Johannes Paul Raether & Discoteca Flaming Star Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Kulturverwaltung des Landes Berlin -------------------------   Often one uses the metaphor of Zwischenraum when speaking of art in its live format — that metaphorical space between white cube and black box, between museum and theater, spectacular presence and lifeless remains, or simply the space between actual, live events and the archive. Performances by visual artists are often known as spectacular supplements to exhibition opening nights or as the experimental contribution to a survey exhibition. They also inject a welcome shot of romantic vanitas and evanescence into the bourgeois theatre-machine, which in its repertoire has been rehearsed to death. The fact is, performance is easy, fast, flexible and cheap, and almost always has a resounding effect by either entertaining or abusing the audience. Poor Berlin and the hip, but dingy performance art — this is a time of big love. If the performance boom repre- sents anything more than the hype emerging from its sheer ubiquity, more than its mantra-like expression of yet another market crisis or, one could imagine that this artistic practice might be able to make productive use of sites other than the Zwischenraum — that metaphorical space between. One might then be able to consi- der that the practice itself could create space where it reflects on itself, not as the »other« of another, but as a distinct practice of visual art that formulates a specific status for images and objects, gestures and actions, people and roles. It is not an artistic practice that simply conforms to an imagined mainstream, but rather it is an art form that reflects its own needs and derives platforms, spaces, and formats from it. This kind of space and these reflections are missing in Berlin. ZEIG HER, FÜHR VOR, TAUSCH EIN cannot entirely rectify this situation, but it will try to construct a space for three days that is not simply an exhibition or an artist’s theater night. It will present performative acts alongside images and objects, and will integrate discussion into presentations as a means of opening up a discursive space around the spectacular medium of performance. In this sense, it will operate like an open studio session for visual artists who also happen to work in the field of performance. The afternoons themselves will be part of a prescribed staging, and the exhibition will not simply serve as a backdrop to the performance. Performances will not operate exclusively as artworks, but will also pervade the discussion, at the same time that the artist Stefan Pente — who will serve as the moderator, the master of ceremonies, and the host — will structure the talks. Three respondents will comment on the works in short statements and make presentations, so that over three days not only is an exhibition, a theater, or an academic seminar created, but also something that we would like to call a »performative exhibition situation« — something that might be under- stood as a question to the artists and their audience in Berlin: What spaces, which formats, and what platforms do visual artists who work in performance need? •   more info: www.discotecaflamingstar.com www.johannespaulraether.net > October 14, 2011   <- Back to: Performances/Situations
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