Vito Acconci
John Baldessari
Valie Export
Simone Forti
Gilbert & George
Joan Jonas
Ana Mendieta
Bruce Nauman
Yvonne Rainer
Richard Serra
Jens Hoffmann
John Baldessari
Joan Jonas
The Art of Action. A Program on Performance and The Art Institution. Spectacular III will offer a the chance to view historically relevant performance work documented on film and video from artists that started working in this medium in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Art of Action
A Program on Performance and The Art Institution
April - November, 2003
Curated by Jens Hoffmann
SPECTACULAR III
August, 2 2003 9 PM - 1 AM
Open-Air Film Screening
Performance-Films and Videos, selected by John Baldessari and Joan Jonas:
Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Valie Export, Simone Forti, Gilbert &
George, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer and Richard
Serra.
SPECTACULAR III will offer a the chance to view historically relevant
performance work documented on film and video from artists that started
working in this medium in the 1960s and 1970s. The premise is to offer the
audience the possibility to get familiar with some of the roots of
performance art. During one night the yard of the museum kunst-palast will
be transformed into an open-air cinema and film program will be presented
whoch has been put together by artists Joan Jonas and John Baldessari.
Films:
Vito Acconci: Turn-On, 1974
John Baldessari: Baldessari Sings Lewitt, 1972
Simone Forti: Three Grizzlies, 1974
Gilbert & George: The Singing Sculpture, 1992
Valie Export: Delta. A Piece, 1976-77
Joan Jonas: Disturbances, 1974
Anna Mendieta: Burial of the Nanigo, (Woman Candle Silueta #2) 1976
Bruce Naumann: Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square, 1968
Yvonne Rainer: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid, 2000
Richard Serra: Anxious Automation, 1971
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SPECTACULAR - The Art of Action
April 26 > June 17 > June 21 > August 2 >
September 18 > October 23 > November 8
SPECTACULAR I:
April 26, 2003 6 PM
Pawel Althamer, John Bock, Surasi Kusolwong, Jonathan Monk, Tino Sehgal
SPECTACULAR II:
June 21, 2003
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Followed by a conversation between the artists and Jens Hoffmann
SPECTACULAR III:
August 2, 2003 9 PM
Open-Air Film Screening
Performance-Films and Videos, selected by John Baldessari and Joan Jonas:
Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Valie Export, Simone Forti, Gilbert &
George, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer and Richard
Serra
SPECTACULAR IV :
September 18, 2003 6 PM
Trisha Donnelly, Annika Eriksson, Laura Lima, Kirsten Pieroth, Cai
Guo-Qiang, Andreas Slominski, Patrick Tuttofuoco
SPECTACULAR V:
November 8, 2003
Carsten Höller
Followed by a conversation between the artist and Jens Hoffmann
Lectures:
June 17, 2003 6 PM
RoseLee Goldberg > The View from Here: A Century of Performance Art
October 23, 2003 6 PM
Dorothea von Hantelmann > Art after Performance
Image: Vito Acconci
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