John Bock
Tania Bruguera
Trisha Donnelly
Ingar Drangset
Michael Elmgreen
Karl Holmqvist
Takehito Koganezawa
Elke Krystufek
Laura Lima
Tracey Rose
Tino Sehgal
Jens Hoffmann
A Little Bit of History Repeated.The project offers a unique opportunity to re-experience and analyze a series of classic performances as a number of international artists from a younger generation have been invited to re-enact important performances from the 1960s and 70s.
A Little Bit of History Repeated
Three performance evenings.
Participating artists: John Bock (Germany), Tania Bruguera (Cuba), Trisha
Donnelly (USA), Ingar Drangset & Michael Elmgreen (Denmark/Norway), Karl
Holmqvist (Sweden), Takehito Koganezawa (Japan), Elke Krystufek (Austria),
Laura Lima (Brazil), Tracey Rose (South Africa), Tino Sehgal (Germany).
Curated by: Jens Hoffmann
The project offers a unique opportunity to re-experience and analyze a
series of classic performances as a number of international artists from a
younger generation have been invited to re-enact important performances from
the 1960s and 70s.
The reenactments comprise open copies based on original
documentation (film, photographs as well as written and oral statements),
interpretations of the original performance, co-operations with the original
artist and entirely new works, which are only loosely based on an older
performance. While the performances will take place on Friday and Saturday
(Saturday repetition of the previous evening), the third evening will be
dedicated to a panel discussion for the evaluation of the project.
Participants of the panel are the artists of A Little Bit of History
Repeated, Dorothea von Hantelmann, a freelance curator and critic and Jens
Hoffmann.
The aim of the project is to analyze the fundamental characteristics
of performance art and its relationship to the art object and the idea of the
archive, as well as to explore questions of method, techniques, development,
movement, authorship, conservation and documentation.
Following the panel discussion and based on the idea of the project A Little
Bit of History Repeated, the performance class Abramovic of the Hochschule
für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, will perform a number of performances,
which have been created during a seminar led by Marina Abramovic and Jens
Hoffmann.
Accompanying the project a bilingual, German-English publication will be
published, comprising texts by Jens Hoffmann and the individual artists.
(Published by Kunst-Werke in collaboration with Edition Valerio,
Paris/Berlin. 80 pages, DM 9,-).
The project has been realized thanks to the generous support of the Allianz
Kulturstiftung, Munich, and the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin.
Friday, 16.11.2001 Performances
Saturday, 17.11.2001 Performances (repetition of Friday)
Sunday, 18.11.2001 panel discussion; performances by the students of Marina
Abramovic
Time:
8 - 11 p.m.
Admission:
Adults DM 10,-; Reduced DM 8,-.
Information:
Beate Barner, t +49.30.24 34 59 50 f +49.30.24 34 59 99
presse@kw-berlin.de
Kunst-Werke Berlin- Institute
for Contemporary Art,
exhibition hall
Auguststraße - Berlin