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9/1/2014

Donelle Woolford

Tanzquartier, Wien

In the performance Performer/Performer/Audience/Mirror, Donelle Woolford re-enacts the piece that was originally conceived and performed by artist Dan Graham in 1977. However, the only "reproduction" occurs within the work itself. This means that the work is staged in exactly the same way as Dan Graham's dance studio or similar room with a wall of mirrors and an audience, but as a Pas de Deux. Donelle Woolford is an emerging artist from New York who has exhibited in London, Paris and Vienna. Multifaceted as a narrative, a scripted role, and a fictional character, Woolford has actually entered the real world through different actors in different locations. The shifting embodiment of Woolford, along with the diversity of her work, hint at the fact that she is actually the invention of artist Joe Scanlan who, in turn, casts young African American women to portray her. It can thus be said that Woolford is the author of the artworks Scanlan produces. If so, then Scanlan both colludes and questions the institutional structures and representational politics of the art world. The impersonation gives him freedom to create artworks that do not necessarily fit within his own biography. But as a construction, Woolford also challenges our desire to connect an artwork to an artist-subject and to read the work through the author's "authentic" biography.

Donelle Woolford will be played by:
Jennifer Kidwell is an artist and recent graduate of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training in Philadelphia. She holds a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and has studied performance with teachers from Juilliard, Yale and The New School. Most recently she played Rosie in the world premiere of Robert Wilson's opera Zinnias at Montclair State University. She has played Donelle at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; and White Flag Projects, Saint Louis. She currently lives in Philadelphia.
Abigail Ramsay works in the performing arts as an actor, director and administrator. She holds a BA from Brown University and is a graduate of England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, where she was active in the theatre and BBC4 radio plays. She has participated in the launch of Ruffled Feathers Theater Company, Brooklyn; and directed Simple Majorities by Benjamin Marshall for the African American Playwrights Exchange. She has played Donelle at the ICA, London, where she performed my first public lecture; Wallspace, New York; and The Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn.

Performance within the frame of the symposium of the correspondent exhibition I am another world. Artistic Authorship between Desubjectivization and Recanonization, 10.–11.01.2014

Location: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, M13 and Tanzquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Studios and Hall G

Concept by Georgia Holz and Claudia Slanar

Tanzquartier Wien
MuseumsQuartier
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Friday, January 10 2014, 7:30 pm
Admission free

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