Quotidian Displacements at Dresden Academy
This weeklong workshop on performative art practices focuses on the intersection of the artistic gesture and everyday life. What is at stake when art traverses life and their distinct codes intertwine? And, to the point of this workshop, what possibilities does this encounter present for artists who engage the performative mode?
These and other questions are addressed throughout the week through a series of brief lectures, summarized readings and, most important, practical assignments. The focus is on performative actions that can be done quickly and with minimal means so that participants can develop their ideas against the provided models and understand the building blocks needed for the formulation of their own vocabularies.
PARTICIPANTS Tatjana Bikic, Fabian Glass, Franziska Goralski, Olga Grigorjewa, Theo Huber, Jiyoung Kim, Verena Kogler, Sophia Mix, Lisa Pahlke, Henrike Pilz, Andreas Schliebenow, Adéla Součková, Ida Westheuser, Levi Wolffe, and Marit Wolters.
Instructor: Alex Villar (Guest Professor) invited by Prof. Monika Brandmeier
May 6 — 10, 2013
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
Güntzstraße 34, 01307 Dresden, Germany
April 6, Monday
10:00 – 11:00
Introductory remarks
Meet in the workshop room
Logistics: week schedule, email list, performances list, meetings plan
Terminology: performance and performativity; rules, norms, and normalization; documentation and mediation
11:00 – 12:00
De-contextualization assignment
Meet in the workshop room
Examples: Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés and building relocation
12:00 – 13:00
Group lunch
Meet by the school’s cafeteria
13:00 – 16:00
Performances
Meet at school and other sites in the city
3 mins
Public Bedroom
15min
Caressing Objects
16:00 – 17:00
Individual meeting
Theo Huber at his studio
April 7, Tuesday
9:00 – 10:00
Individual meeting
Marit Wolters at café
10:00 – 12:00
Disruption Assignment
Meet in the workshop room
Feedback: breaking character, beginning and ending an action
Example: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting
12:00 – 13:00
Group lunch
Meet at Turkish restaurant
13:00 – 17:00
Performances
Travel together to several sites in the city
Stuck at Bus Stop
1 hour
Hair shaving at Mensa, during lunch
15min
Hugs, 10 min
Pragerstrasse
Hand shake
15 min
May 8, Wednesday
10:00 – 12:00
Deviation Assignment
Meet at the workshop room
Example: de-tour
12:00 – 13:00
Individual meeting
Tatjana Bikic at school’s yard
13:00 – 14:00
Group lunch
Meet at the school’s cafeteria
Impromptu performance by Theo Huber, voice and tape recorded story
14:00 – 16:00
Performances
Meet at the workshop room
Verena Kogler, and Theo Huber
Recording inviting tourists to enter school
19:00 – 20:00
Alex Villar’s lecture
Meet at Auditorium
Interventions by Marit Wolters, Theo Huber, Sophia Mix, Lisa Pahlke
May 9, Thursday
9:00 – 10:00
Individual meeting
Levi Wolffe at café
10:00 – 12:00
Destabilization Assignment
Meet at the workshop room
Example: Jan Bas Adler’s (crying, tripping, falling)
12:00 – 13:00
Individual meeting
Sophia Mix at café
13:00 – 16:00
Performances
Meet at several sites
Table Top
Weight Accident
and Fabian Glass
Balancing plastic sheet
16:00 – 17:00
Individual meeting
Lisa Pahlke at her studio
17:00 – 18:00
Individual meeting
Jiyoung kim at restaurant
18:00 – 19:00
Individual meeting
Adéla Součková at restaurant
19:00 – 20:00
Individual meeting
Ida Westheuser at restaurant
May 9, Friday
10:00 – 12:00
Discrepancy Assignment
Meet at the workshop room
Example: Artur Zmijewski’s KR WP (Polish National Guard)
12:00 – 13:00
Individual meeting
Fabian Glass at his studio
13:00 – 14:00
Performances
Meet at several sites
Blank Slate
15 min
Legless Shopping
11 min
Gray and Red Umbrellas
Sidewalk Cleaning
5 min
Beyonce poster
2 min
14:00 – 16:00
Group lunch
Meet in the workshop room
16:00 – 17:00
Individual meeting
Olga Grigorjewa at her studio
17:00 – 18:00
Individual meeting
Franziska Goralski at her studio
