25 January 2018 | Thursday | 5 pm onwards
5 pm
Hot Saw – Electric Power, Claudia Comte, Kunsthalle Basel
7 pm
Simultaneous Duo Versions,
John M Armleder & Christian Marclay, Museum Tinguely
PerformanceProcess Symposium Day 1
at Museum Tinguely:
From Live to Legacies: Exploring Performance Art
Co-organized by Museum Tinguely and Kunsthalle Basel in partnership with Centre culturel suisse Paris, the symposium will take place at the two venues on 26 and 27 January, 2018. An international gathering of historians of performance art, artists, curators, and other practitioners will discuss the theoretical, historical, and practical aspects of performance art and its legacies.
The symposium will expand on the questions raised by the larger collaborative exhibition project PerformanceProcess regarding the role of the archive and documentation in relation to live art, the relationship of contemporary practices to the historical origins of performance, the ways in which different institutional contexts (museums, theaters, festivals, public spaces) have fostered distinct relationships to live arts, the relation of performance art to the traditions of dance, theatre, the art object, and installation, and, last but certainly not least, Switzerland’s unique performance art history.
Participants: Madeleine Amsler, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Martin Chramosta, Paul Clinton, Jean-Paul Felley, Elena Filipovic, Séverine Fromaigeat, Max Glauner, Pascale Grau, Sophie Jung, Olivier Kaeser, Roman Kurzmeyer, Elise Lammer, Emma Lavigne, Heinrich Lüber, Christian Marclay, Muda Mathis, Andrea Saemann, Diego Stampa, Roland Wetzel, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Alice Wilke and Catherine Wood.
Program Day 1
9:15 am | Coffee
9:45 am | Words of welcome (DE & EN)
Roland Wetzel, Director of Museum Tinguely
and programm introduction
Elena Filipovic, Director and curator of Kunsthalle Basel
and Séverine Fromaigeat, curator of Museum Tinguely
Session 1: Swiss Performance Art Then and Now
10 am | Lecture (DE)
Madeleine Amsler
Performance Art in Switzerland – A Survey
Keynote Inputs on Swiss performance art and history
10:30 am | Performance by Martina-Sofie Wildberger with Martin Chramosta
Conversation Piece: Alice and Bob
10:50 am | Panel discussion (DE & EN)
Swiss Performance Art and History
Andrea Saemann (moderator), Madeleine Amsler, Max Glauner, Elise Lammer and Martina-Sofie Wildberger
11:30 am | Coffee break
Session 2: Focus - Basel’s Performance Art Scene
11:50 am | Lecture (DE)
Muda Mathis
From solo characters to duos, gangs and bands- A glance at the art scene in Basel
Keynote Inputs on the Basel Art Scene
12:20 pm | Panel discussion (DE)
Basel’s Performance Art Scene
Roman Kurzmeyer (moderator), Sophie Jung, Muda Mathis, Diego Stampa, Alice Wilke
1 pm | Lunch break
2 pm | Words of welcome and introduction to the
PerformanceProcess cooperation (DE & EN)
Roland Wetzel, Director of Museum Tinguely
Exhibition tour with Centre culturel suisse Paris
Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser
PerformanceProcess. 60 Years of Performance Art in
Switzerland, Museum Tinguely
Performance by Heinrich Lüber, Volute
Session 3: Showing, Collecting and Sharing Performance Art
How does performativity survive the live event? How can the time - and site – specific experience of a live-performance be expanded into an artwork? How does an exhibition deal with such material? Keywords: protocols, sketches, props, video and photographs. Preparation, announcements, traces and reenactments. Materiality versus immateriality.
Introduction | Séverine Fromaigeat, Curator, Museum Tinguely
2:45 pm | Lecture (EN)
Catherine Wood
What Was / What Could Be / What Is:
Documents, Scores and Situations for Performance in the Museum
3:15 pm | Short Input (DE)
Pascale Grau
Short Dicourse on Transforming Performance Art through Archives, Art Institutions and Artists in Switzerland
3:30 pm | Coffee break
4:00 pm | Lecture (EN)
Emma Lavigne
From Live Art Inside Exhibitions to Exhibitions as Living Places
4.30 pm | Lecture (EN)
Pierre Bal-Blanc
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body
5:00 pm | Panel discussion (EN)
Showing, Collecting and Sharing Performance Art
Séverine Fromaigeat (moderator), Alexandra Bachzetsis, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Emma Lavigne and Catherine Wood
5:45 pm | Summary (EN)
Paul Clinton
A Subjective Critical Review of the Day
6:15 pm | Apero
7:00 pm | Meta-Concert
Performance by Christian Marclay in relation to the work of Jean Tinguely. With the collaboration of Okkyung Lee on cello and Luc Müller on percussion, Museum Tinguely, cost: museum admision
27 January 2018 | Saturday | 12 am – 6 pm
www.performanceprocessbasel.ch
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