Speak & Spell
dal 16/11/2011 al 16/11/2011
Segnalato da
16/11/2011
Speak & Spell
COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Wien
The contributions to this year's edition are concerned with a discussion of language and meaning, of truth and lies: performances by Pierre Leguillon, Narcissister and Wojciech Kosma; a video by Peter Friedl.
Curated by Spike Art Quarterly in conjunction with Vienna Art Week
The contributions to this year’s edition of »Speak & Spell« are concerned with a discussion of language and meaning, of truth and lies. The talking, lecture and singing performances disorient the viewer, to the point where language fades and the body picks up the thread of truth.
»Speak and Spell« is curated for the fourth time by the art magazine »Spike«, and presents contributions to language, the theatrical body, the authenticity of the non-authentic, the exalted, the moment of exaggeration, the amateur, participation, desire.
Performances
7 PM Pierre Leguillon
The Promise of the Screen featuring »Saul Bass/Sacha Guitry: Title Sequences« (with Adrien Faucheux and Philippe Millot) & Bonus: »Voilà Pourquoi« (with Clément Rodzielski)
»The Promise of the Screen« (»La promesse de l’écran«) is a hybrid of a projection room and a speakeasy, it is composed of a 4:3 projection screen behind which is hidden a bar. Screenings, »dedicated to the peripheral aspects of cinema«, begin with a projection of artist’s videos selected by Leguillon, which is periodically interrupted by the rise of the screen and the festive opening of the bar. (Kaleidoscope)
8.30 PM Narcissister
A Series of Shorter Pieces and Videos (The Basket, The Workout, Hot Lunch, I'm Everywoman)
Narcissister employs image scavenging in her playful neo-burlesque vignettes. She works cooperatively to produce tailor made soundtracks for each piece, reconstituting burlesque – a classic genre characterized by its embrace of pastiche, parody, and wit. Narcissister’s use of self-generated media portend a black female subjectivity that challenges the fixed meanings of race, gender and sexuality. Her glittering accoutrements – larger than life hair, the assortment of baubles she pulls from bodily orifices including a matryoshka doll (Justin Timberlake once gave her a standing ovation for said feat), as well as the striking mask she wears serve to enhance her simulacral play with gender and spectacle.
9 PM Wojciech Kosma
»In the Beginning Was That Annoying Laughter«, performed by Dwayne Browne and Sjoerd Dijk
Performing here means acting unintentionally, unknowingly and so constantly encountering new, »original situations.« The performers react to them with the same (real) surprise, discomfort, laughter or awe as their audience. They learn as they act and so their stories, dances, jokes, diatribes and songs eventually flow into one another, create one narrative and uncover more. Everything is ridiculed, before giving up to a more worthy action to ridicule it again. Speaking about themselves the actors analyze the collective unconscious.
Video Screening
Peter Friedl
»La Bohème«, 1997
Peter Friedl’s video, »La Bohème«, documents a performance held at Kunstraum Mitte, Berlin from 1997.
Image: Peter Friedl
, La Bohème, 1997
COCO
Bauernmarkt 8, 1010 Vienna
Thursday, November 17, 7–11PM