Works live and on exhibit at Venice International Performance Art Week
10.12 — 17.12 16
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Works live and on exhibit at Venice International Performance Art Week
10.12 — 17.12 16

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The Performance Art Week is back in Venice after two previous – and highly successful – editions in 2012 and 2014. Dedicated to the art of the performance, this event has brought renowned artists including Yoko Ono, Regina José Galindo and Tania Bruguera. It again returns on time to present a full week of performance art from all over the world and belonging to various generations.

Conceived by Andrea Pagnes and Verena Stenke, the event benefits from the collaboration with prestigious institutions such as Fondazione Bonotto and Galleria A plus A, which has since its inception shown a sensible interest to the artistic production in Eastern Europe.

In the course of one week, attendees to the event will have the possibility to participate in an intensive and vivacious program of live performances, installation, photographic and video documentation, conferences, daily discussion roundtables, a research space, a cinema room, and meetings with participating artists, academics, and curators.

The section curated by Aurora Fonda of Galleria A plus A of Venice brings together artists from diverse former-Yugoslavian generations beginning in the 1960s. The program includes films by the Slovenian group OHO, which became worldwide famous and found a way show its work at the New York MoMA with the exhibition Information in 1970. Conceptual in nature, OHO performances were documented by Nasko Kriznar. In addition to presenting their most notable performance works like Triglav, – a rather ironic interpretation of Slovenia’s national symbol (a three-peak mountain) – the program will also include the screening of the film Hrbet Gre V Kino (The Back Goes To The Movies). After its first screening in 1968 following an OHO performance in Zagrabia, this film had not been shown again. It possesses a notable characteristic: the film must be projected on the nude back of a woman.

After the OHO group, the voice of Slovenia continued to be heard with the Neue Slowenische Kunst. In the 1980s, this movement brought together representatives of various experimental artistic disciplines ranging from theater to music with the Laibach, thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and artists including the IRWIN, which to date continue to be quite active. The latter will present the East Art Map diagram, conceived with the objective of displaying the connections between art movements and artists and thus offering an overview to explore and better understand the artistic developments in Eastern Europe.

The youngest generation will be represented by the Bosnian Mladen Miljanović – featured artist at the Bosnian Pavilion in the 2013 Biennale – and by the Slovenian duo formed by Lenka Đorojević and Matej Stupica. For this occasion, Miljanović has designed a live performance under the title Guard of Honor and which pays homage to his father. On the other hand, Lenka Đorojević and Matej Stupica will screen the research material of a performance through which they seek to go beyond the limits of their own bodies.

Programm of the Venice Performance Art Week 2016