A project by cross links e.V., curated by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer, produced in partnership with Akademie der Künste, Berlin
13.12.2008 – 8.2.2009
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Performance art emerging in the 1960s and 70s was infused with ideas of social emancipation and fundamentally influenced by women artists interested in feminism. Performance art explored the intersection of art and life, of private and public. It offered an ideal medium for examining, deconstructing or reinventing (female) identity moving beyond attributions of femininity in mainstream culture. Moreover, as a new art form, occurring outside the confines of the traditional art space, performance was a medium for collective and social intervention in the public sphere. re.act.feminism provides an exemplary overview of gender-critical performance art and investigates its resonances in current artistic productions in the form of re-enactments, re-appropriations, new formulations or documentary and archival projects.
Exhibition
The exhibition documents performative works from 24 artists spanning across two generations. The selected works reflect the curators’ intention to extend the perspective beyond the canon of the known and familiar in order to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of (feminist) performative strategies. This includes performance movements in Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as the former GDR (since the beginning of the 1980s), which often developed parallel to and independent of “Western art”.
With Oreet Ashery (IL/UK), Maja Bajevic (BIH/D), Colette (USA), Orshi Drozdik (H), VALIE EXPORT (A), Esther Ferrer (E), Kate Gilmore (USA), Lorraine O’Grady (USA), Sanja Ivekovic (HR), Verena Kyselka (DDR/D), Nicola L (F), Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz (USA), Babette Mangolte (USA), Yoko Ono (J/USA), Orlan (F), Tanja Ostojic (SRB/D), Ewa Partum (PL/D), Ulrike Rosenbach (D), Boryana Rossa (BG), Stefanie Seibold (A/D), Cornelia Sollfrank (D), Gabriele Stötzer (DDR/D), Martha Wilson (USA).
Video archive
The video archive offers visitors the possibility to choose from a wealth of more than 70 performance documents, video performances and interviews with artists and to view these “on demand”. This unique collection allows an intensive examination of feminist inspired performance art in both the East and West.
With Helena Almeida (PT), Oreet Ashery (IL/UK), Renate Bertlmann (A), Nancy Buchanan (USA), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (ROK/USA), Laura Cottingham (USA), Disband (USA), Yingmei Duan (CN/D), VALIE EXPORT (A), Factory of Found Clothes (RUS), Esther Ferrer (E), Simone Forti (I/USA), (e.) Twin Gabriel (DDR/D), Kate Gilmore (USA), Nan Hoover (USA/NL), Sanja Ivekovic (HR), Elzbieta Jablonska (PL), Françoise Janicot (F), Joan Jonas (USA), Tina Keane (UK), Verica Kovacevska (MK/UK), Elena Kovylina (RUS) , Katarzyna Kozyra (PL/D), Christina Kubisch (D), Natalia LL (PL), Manon (CH), Ana Mendieta (C/USA), Marta Minujin (ARG), Fina Miralles (E), Linda Montano (USA), Charlotte Moorman (USA), Margherita Morgantin (I), Alketa Xhafa Mripa (Kosovo), Ewa Partum (PL/D), Jillian Peña (USA), Performance Saga (Andrea Saemann (CH) & Katrin Grögel (D)), Friederike Pezold (A), Howardena Pindell (USA), Adrian Piper (USA), Ulrike Rosenbach (D), Martha Rosler (USA), Christine Schlegel (DDR/D), Cornelia Schleime (DDR/D), Carolee Schneemann (USA), Ene-Liis Semper (EST), Bonnie Ora Sherk (USA), Cornelia Sollfrank (D), Spiderwoman Theater (USA), Gabriele Stötzer (DDR/D), Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA), The Waitresses (USA), Faith Wilding (PY/USA), Hannah Wilke (USA), Martha Wilson (USA), Nil Yalter (ET/F).
13.12.2008 – 8.2.2009
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
http://www.adk.de/reactfeminism/index.htm/
Performance art emerging in the 1960s and 70s was infused with ideas of social emancipation and fundamentally influenced by women artists interested in feminism. Performance art explored the intersection of art and life, of private and public. It offered an ideal medium for examining, deconstructing or reinventing (female) identity moving beyond attributions of femininity in mainstream culture. Moreover, as a new art form, occurring outside the confines of the traditional art space, performance was a medium for collective and social intervention in the public sphere. re.act.feminism provides an exemplary overview of gender-critical performance art and investigates its resonances in current artistic productions in the form of re-enactments, re-appropriations, new formulations or documentary and archival projects.
Exhibition
The exhibition documents performative works from 24 artists spanning across two generations. The selected works reflect the curators’ intention to extend the perspective beyond the canon of the known and familiar in order to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of (feminist) performative strategies. This includes performance movements in Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as the former GDR (since the beginning of the 1980s), which often developed parallel to and independent of “Western art”.
With Oreet Ashery (IL/UK), Maja Bajevic (BIH/D), Colette (USA), Orshi Drozdik (H), VALIE EXPORT (A), Esther Ferrer (E), Kate Gilmore (USA), Lorraine O’Grady (USA), Sanja Ivekovic (HR), Verena Kyselka (DDR/D), Nicola L (F), Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz (USA), Babette Mangolte (USA), Yoko Ono (J/USA), Orlan (F), Tanja Ostojic (SRB/D), Ewa Partum (PL/D), Ulrike Rosenbach (D), Boryana Rossa (BG), Stefanie Seibold (A/D), Cornelia Sollfrank (D), Gabriele Stötzer (DDR/D), Martha Wilson (USA).
Video archive
The video archive offers visitors the possibility to choose from a wealth of more than 70 performance documents, video performances and interviews with artists and to view these “on demand”. This unique collection allows an intensive examination of feminist inspired performance art in both the East and West.
With Helena Almeida (PT), Oreet Ashery (IL/UK), Renate Bertlmann (A), Nancy Buchanan (USA), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (ROK/USA), Laura Cottingham (USA), Disband (USA), Yingmei Duan (CN/D), VALIE EXPORT (A), Factory of Found Clothes (RUS), Esther Ferrer (E), Simone Forti (I/USA), (e.) Twin Gabriel (DDR/D), Kate Gilmore (USA), Nan Hoover (USA/NL), Sanja Ivekovic (HR), Elzbieta Jablonska (PL), Françoise Janicot (F), Joan Jonas (USA), Tina Keane (UK), Verica Kovacevska (MK/UK), Elena Kovylina (RUS) , Katarzyna Kozyra (PL/D), Christina Kubisch (D), Natalia LL (PL), Manon (CH), Ana Mendieta (C/USA), Marta Minujin (ARG), Fina Miralles (E), Linda Montano (USA), Charlotte Moorman (USA), Margherita Morgantin (I), Alketa Xhafa Mripa (Kosovo), Ewa Partum (PL/D), Jillian Peña (USA), Performance Saga (Andrea Saemann (CH) & Katrin Grögel (D)), Friederike Pezold (A), Howardena Pindell (USA), Adrian Piper (USA), Ulrike Rosenbach (D), Martha Rosler (USA), Christine Schlegel (DDR/D), Cornelia Schleime (DDR/D), Carolee Schneemann (USA), Ene-Liis Semper (EST), Bonnie Ora Sherk (USA), Cornelia Sollfrank (D), Spiderwoman Theater (USA), Gabriele Stötzer (DDR/D), Mierle Laderman Ukeles (USA), The Waitresses (USA), Faith Wilding (PY/USA), Hannah Wilke (USA), Martha Wilson (USA), Nil Yalter (ET/F).