Get That Balance
Get That Balance
T u e s d a y 23 10 01 Cork
Presented by the National Sculpture Factory in association with the Sculptors Society of Ireland.
[ Programme of Events ] Tuesday 23 10 01
11am to 1pm: Panel Discussion, Live Art: To Curate, Facilitate or Mediate?
2 - 3pm: Get That Balance, Part 1: Installations and Live Work.
3.30 - 5.30pm: Panel Discussion, The Changing Face of Performance Art: Video and New Media.
6 - 8pm: Get That Balance, Part II: Performances
Cork Opera House & Half Moon Theatre, Cork.
A series of live installations and individual performances created and
presented by past and present students of Marina Abramovic.
Freddie stands up. Luigi meets Maria, Elvis blows the balloon, the shoe on the head, the whisper of the ocean, the happy family, the machine turns, Sarah dies, the Aphrodite prepares the drink, the water drops, the word doesn't come out, where the sun goes down, the honky tonk comes. Get that balance!
Participating Artists:
Oliver Blomeier (Germany); Sarah Braun (Germany); Ivan Civic (Bosnia);
Amanda Coogan (Ireland); Yingmei Duan (China); Nezakat Eckici (Turkey);
Uli Ertl (Austria); Marcia Gojevic (Croatia); Tellervo Kalleinen (Finland);
Barbara Klinker (Germany); Franz Gerald Krumpl (Austria); Ute Lindner
(Germany); Daniel MŸller-Friedrichsen (Germany); Iris Selke (Germany);
Christian Sievers (Germany); Till Steinbrenner (Germany); Melati Suryodarmo
(Indonesia); Rut Waldeyer (Germany); Susanne Winterling (Germany); Herma
Wittstock (Germany); Viola Yesiltac (Germany).
The Class of Abramovic performance is supported by Braunschweig School of Art, Germany.
Marina Abramovic's course at the Braunschweig School of Art is internationally recognised as the leading course in performance art. Her past and present students include some of the most exciting new generation of performance artists. The emphasis throughout the teaching is on the importance and potential of the engagement and exchange between the performer and the audience.
Try to remember the very moment between awake and falling asleep. Marina Abramovic, Cleaning the House.
[ Panel Discussions ]
Presented by the National Sculpture Factory in association with the Sculptors
Society of Ireland.
Lecture Theatre, Crawford Muncipal Art Gallery, Emmet Place, Cork.11am: Live Art: To Curate, Facilitate or Mediate?This discussion will focus on the relationship between the curator and the artist in presenting performance art and how both parties can develop further opportunities for live art to be shown.Among those issues to be explored are the artists' responsibilities, priorities and expectations in presenting performance art and whether these are changing as performance art itself evolves. It will also consider the curators' or art organisations' role in the process, from initial selection to presentation and from setting the context for the performance to documentation.
3.30pm: The Changing Face of Performance Art: Video and
New Media.
As video and film have increasingly become the media of choice for many
artists, is the nature of performance art and its presentation in the
gallery space changing?For many such artists, the performers body and
emotional state remain the pivotal elements in their work, and the use
of wall-sized projections ensures that the viewer is directly involved
in the performance space. Film is no longer purely a means of documentation
but a means by which the visceral engagement of the performance artist
with the audience can be intensified or manipulated to even greater effect.Are
film and new media the future of performance art in the gallery space?
The panels will include, among others:
Sean Taylor, artist and Head of Sculpture, Limerick College of
Art and Design (Chair).
Professor Robert Ayres, Head of Performance Art, Nottingham Trent
School of Art & Design, UK.
Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, artist and curator of HOME, London.
Hayley Newman, artist, presenting a performance as part of Marking the Territory at IMMA.
Sarah Pierce, Artistic Director, Arthouse, Dublin.
Anne Seagrave, artist.
Nigel Rolfe, artist and visiting Professor of Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London (Chair).
Amanda Coogan, artist.
Lizbeth Goodman, Director of The SMARTlab Centre, Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, UK.
Professor Ken Perlin, Director of the Media Research Laboratory and the Centre of Advanced Technology, New York University, USA.
Sally Potter, film-maker, UK.
Dr Slavka Sverakova, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Ulster, Belfast.
For further information on Get That Balance and to book a free place at the events, please contact:National Sculpture Factory, Albert Road, Cork T: 353 21 431 4353 F: 353 21 431 3247
E: nsf@nationalsculpturefactory.com
Get That Balance is an associated event, organised by the National Sculpture Factory, to mark the performance event, Marking the Territory, curated by Marina Abramovic at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Marking the Territory
Irish Museum of Modern Art Friday 19 ö Sunday 21 October 2001.For
further information on the programme for Marking the Territory, please
contact: Irish Museum of Modern Art T: 353 1 612 9955 F: 353 1 612 9999
E:
bookings@modernart.ie
W:
www.modernart.ie
The Appearances Project
Arthouse 18 October - 9 November 2001
Pauline Cummins, Sandra Johnston, Frances Mezzetti (18 - 27 October)Frances Hegarty, Carol Kavanagh, Alanna O'Kelly (off-site) (31 October - 9 November).Further further information T: 01 605 6800
The National Sculpture Factory is grateful to all those who have made this event possible, particularly the artists and panellists who have generously given their time and commitment. Special thanks are due to Marina Abramovic and Melati Suryodramo.The National Sculpture Factory would also like to express its thanks to the Sculptors Society of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art for their support, and to Cork Opera House and Crawford Municipal Art Gallery for hosting the events.