Performing Space
Performing Art includes many different means and practices. Nothing is constant but some aspects are recurrent: artists are always themselves and no characters, and there is a combination of genres.
Each performance has an exceptional nature and its length of time varies from very short to very long.
The relationship with the audience breaks the standardized actor/audience; ludic and interrelated processes are normally used instead of a narration of a story told in a continuous manner.
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Antonio Gómez (Mérida - Spain)
Thursday 5th November / OffLimits
My education as audience has developed to such an extent that I try to understand and interpret everything around me in a visual way. When associating, confronting and manipulating images or objects we are giving them new meanings, a new direct and effective language is being codified.
The need of communication has developed my aesthetic criterion modifying it in a gradual way with no sudden or in an exclusive manner which does not mean I have achieved a method in my work. Order, integration and expression have their value, but also disorder, disintegration and inexpressiveness do.
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Carlos Felices (Madrid - Spain)
Thursday 12th November / Círculo de Bellas Artes
My name is Carlos Felices and I am not aware of the etymology of my surname (Happy)
From art I expect surprise and also enjoyment, that is why I prefer not to be radical in my judgments, I think this opens a wide range of possibilities that I would not have otherwise. Contributions are not only given by genius, since they also imitate those who are not so, we all make art, avant-garde is made through interactions, and interchanges of information are not done by isolated individuals.
Lastly, I do not believe in cultural globalization and, therefore, I do not believe either in the hegemony of some cultures upon others, much less those that think of themselves as the paradigm and model to be followed, because they just restrict and minimize the possibilities of knowledge.
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J.M. Calleja (Mataró - Spain)
Thursday 12th November / Círculo de Bellas Artes
The place where I am going to do the performance is very important to me, more even than the performance itself. The performance is generated and born in the very space; sometimes an undeveloped idea transforms and adapts itself to the space where I will do the performance.
From the architectural and symbolical coordinates, and present and past history of the place, I try to create a personal transformation through different objects, audio-visual means or through my own body, so as to transmit that to the audience sensitivity and their historic consciousness.
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John G. Boehme (Canada/USA)
Friday 13th November / Círculo de Bellas Artes
John G. Boehme's work integrates new practices of trans-disciplines including performance, sculpture, photography, video, digital technology and installation.
From the nineties, John has developed a wide career in Canada and abroad: from Brazil to Chile and Europe where he has taken part in plenty of performance festivals.
Besides, he is professor at the Victoria University and the Brentwood College, both in Canada.
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Kai Lam (Singapore)
Thursday 19th November / Matadero Madrid
My work is about us as hybrid beings, about how the surrogated cultures take shape and are built through performance proliferating towards the possibility of cultural and political freedom. Performance has not the purpose of serving anyone, it is a repeated act of resistance against the dominant cultural hegemony that has become an authoritarian machinery that systematically oppresses individual freedom and restricts the evolution of human creativity. Through these contradictions I expect to articulate my own systems of representation and celebrate a mankind that wants to free their bodies of its perplexed existence to return them to its plural existence.
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Fernando Baena (Madrid - Spain)
Thursday 19th November / Matadero Madrid
I feel bewildered when I am asked what art is.
I could say something about it but, sincerely, I do not find a satisfactory answer.
On the other hand, if I am asked about my artistic work in particular I can say a few things.
I am not going to because it bores me. What I would like to say is that I am tired of looking:
what a bore to look inside oneself! And then the tyranny of looking around the world: we should not look the other way.
At the end, one just keeps looking at emptiness.. and nothing.
Another matter altogether is business Art.
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Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill (Germany - Switzerland)
Friday 20th November / Matadero Madrid
Going on with our individual work as much as with our work in common exploring with performances about "Time", the installation nature of our proposals as well as the images we create in them play a very important transforming role in our own ideas and in the discussion about them.
We are interested in the minimalist as well as the exuberant poetical processes of structural analysis of perception.
Photograph: Victor Petrov
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Kurt Johannessen (Norway)
Friday 20th November / Matadero Madrid
I try to be as open-minded as possible and not to be conditioned by the possibilities offered working in a new environment.
This is my starting-point.
At the same time, I am interested in finding situations that can generate qualities that I have not experienced before.
Often I minimize an image and then create microscopic variations. Other times some more complicated situations arose but always in a minimalist poetical way.
Photograph: Torill Nøst
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Esther Ferrer (Spain)
Saturday 21st November / Matadero Madrid
In her long career as performance artist, Esther Ferrer has participated in a great
number of festivals in Spain and abroad (Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Denmark, Norway, England,
The Netherlands, Poland, United States, Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Korea...)
She has had exhibitions of her work in several art galleries and museums, in 1999 she was one of the artists who represented Spain at the Venice Biennial and, in 2008, the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded her with the National Fine Arts Prize.
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Nezaket Ekici (Germany/Turkey)
Saturday 21st November / Matadero Madrid
She lives and works between Berlin and Stuttgart (Germany) Nezaket Ekici is a performer with a wide international career. She was born in Turkey and lives in Germany since 1973. She has studied Pedagogy, Art History and Sculpture at the Maximiliams University and at the Bildenden Künste Academy in Monaco. She is pupil of Marina Abramovic whose influence can be noticed in her similar radical way of performing, even up to the limits of physical capacity, questioning her own identity.
From 2000 she has taken part in various fairs, art galleries and international events (Venice, Amsterdam, Berlin, Turkey, Syria, Dublin, Italy, Barcelona, Denmark, New York, Madrid, London, Boston, Los Angeles, Indonesia...)
Photograph: Stefan Erhard
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