Experienz # 2
dal 17/4/2013 al 20/4/2013
Segnalato da
Davide Balula
Malena Beer
Olivier Beer
Hsia-Fei Chang
Giuseppe Chico
Barbara Matijevic
Antonio Contador
Guillaume Desanges
Carole Douillard
Ninar Esber
Esther Ferrer
Sergej Jensen
Liz Magic Laser
Estefania Penafiel Loaiza
Dan Perjovschi
Nathalie Guiot
Agnes Violeau
17/4/2013
Experienz # 2
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
Materializing the Social. An innovative, forward-looking package of four days of performances, choreographed actions, talk, lecture-performances, performed works, concerts and young people's workshops. This edition explores the biopolitical, following the concept forged in 1974 by Michel Foucault to designate the kind of power exercised not on geographical territories but on populations.
Held during the Brussels art fair, Experienz # 2 is an innovative, forward-looking package of four days of performances, choreographed actions, talk, lecture-performances, performed works, concerts and young people’s workshops. Living up to its title, “Materializing the Social” this second edition treats public involvement as an essential element in these practices that put the individual at the heart of the debate.
with performances by:
Davide Balula / Malena Beer / Olivier Beer / Hsia-Fei Chang / Giuseppe Chico & Barbara Matijevic / Antonio Contador / Guillaume Désanges / Carole Douillard / Ninar Esber / Esther Ferrer / Sergej Jensen / Liz Magic Laser / Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza / Dan Perjovschi
Founder & director: Nathalie Guiot
Curator: Agnès Violeau
Talks by:
RoseLee Goldberg (PERFORMA) / Marc & Josée Gensollen / Les Gens d’Uterpan / Chantal Pontbriand
Young people’s workshops with Malena Beer & Pilar Jaramillo
Performed work by Sarah Crowner
The space of naked life, located in the margins of political organisation, ends up merging with the political space where exclusion and inclusion, exterior and interior (...) enter into a zone of irreducible non-differentiation.
Michel Foucault
An experimental, nomadic platform for live-action artistic practices, open to all, Experienz embarks on its second edition with four days of events based on live presence at the WIELS, the Belgian hub for contemporary art, parallel to the events of Art Brusels 2013. This mini-festival offers an eclectic roster of some fifteen artists from a rich range of backgrounds (Lebanon, United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Taiwan).
Titled “Materializing the Social,” this edition explores the biopolitical, following the concept forged in 1974 by Michel Foucault to designate the kind of power exercised not on geographical territories but on populations. The artistic propositions here address ideas of resistance, bio-power, the government of self and others, the individual’s relation to the group and the norms governing relations between the physical and the social body. Conceiving art as a tool of transformation, in the spirit of the work of John Dewey and Allan Kaprow on art and the everyday, the propositions will stimulate dialogue between the artists and the public, while offering an urgent response to imposed political discourses by the energy of the active body and the capacity for empathy.
“Performance art is a permissive, open-ended medium with endless variables, executed by artists impatient with the limitations of more established art forms.” - RoseLee Goldberg
Catalogue & DVD to be released in September 2013
More Info: www.experienz.org
Press contact
Virginie Devillez +32 486 34 47 30 – vd@experienz.org
Wiels, Contemporary Art Centre
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels
Free admission (subject to capacity)