Dear All (and it’s many of you out there!),
A massive THANK YOU and HEARTFELT GRATITUDE for participating, enriching, engaging, experimenting, sharing, following and immersing into the world of 3rdedition of the Month of Performance Art –Berlin. MPA–B concluded yesterday, after a performative rollercoaster that saw up to 110 projects transforming the city of Berlin into, once again, one of the wildest and widest platforms for experimental, contemporary and independent performance art practices. Without the collective efforts, commitment, enthusiasm and dedication of all its hundreds of participating curators, artists, organisers, producers, supporters and followers, this May wouldn’t have been possible, and our work wouldn’t have been this rewarding. So thank you all for believing in the project, and for investing your creative energies and resources to make it happen. Performance Art is something that must be firstly and mostly experienced live. However the brilliant multimedia contributions from this year’s first team of bloggers, meant that we could share and provide rich and timely insights into the MPA–B programme, to performance art lovers and aficionados around the world, as well as offer further exposure to the parties involved. Thus much respect and gratitude go to Lizzie, Belle, Orion, Ena, Tina, Andrew and Caitlin. The posters are now being pulled down. The spaces cleaned up. The walls fixed. The gaffer tapes and A4s stored…As we collect the remnants of this wonderful edition, and reflect on what it has been, what is has brought about to the city’s independent performance art scene, and what it may be in the future, we bid you farewell with a song, and wish you a wonderful year. https://soundcloud.com/piratecatradio/07-q-lazzarus-goodbye-horses
Alright, we have been living in denial long enough. It's time to adjust to the truth and finally acknowledge that THIS is really IT: the Month of Performance Art–Berlin has come to an end. Very few words can summarise what an incredible month this has been. So we will leave them until tomorrow, after this fantastic final day of performance art projects has passed, and after we've recovered from tonight's epic MPA–B's CLOSING PARTY AT SHIFT CLUB… And now, for one last time, here is today's programme overview: The ON OFF MOMENTS exhibition at Grimmuseum, curated by Amelie Wedel and displaying works outside the realm of performance art by young artists that reveal a moment of absence in different ways, thereby disclosing paradoxes of presence / absence, visibility / invisibility, and self-referentiality / external-referentiality, is still on view today from 14:00 to 19:00 (free entrance). The exhibition runs until June 9th. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may101.htmlhttp://www.grimmuseum.com/(CON)TEMPORARY SPACE-TIME closes it's month-long showcase of performance art from Taiwan, with an evening of performances, talks and an exhibition at Rosalux (starting at 17:00 - free entrance). Featuring live actions by 傅雅雯 Fu Ya-Wen, 林其蔚 Lin Chi-Wei, 湯皇珍 Tang Huang-Chen and 瓦旦．塢瑪 Watan Wuma and an exhibition with works by 湯皇珍 Tang Huang-Chen, 高俊宏 Kao Jun-Hong and 吳瑪悧 Wu Ma-Li, this grand closing promises to be a fantastic opportunity to see and learn more about the work of our Asian counterparts, who have come specifically to Berlin to present current trends in Taiwanese performance art making. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/lan-hungh-yun-ting-hung--i-chen-tsou.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/296511667149952/Starting at 21:00 (entrance 7-5€) at OSHO Studio Berlin, Alexa Wilson & Friends will present EXTRAORDINARY ALIENS, a work that explores cultural, physical and emotional 'outsiderness' and 'insiderness' in a cross-disciplinary performance art, dance and video piece spanning Europe, America, New Zealand and Asia. The performance questions the elitism of power structures deeply embedded within our global and communal society in relation to the identity of bodies and the empowerment of self. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may312.htmlhttp://www.alexawilson.blogspot.de/2013/04/mpa-b.htmlA-CURATE #2, a monthly event dedicated to crossborder practice in art and sound performance curated by Marianne Jacquet, also brings its programming to an end with another grand closing at Urban Spree. Titled RADIO MAKI, it will feature live sessions with Zachov, Carl Schilde, Miko and Strip Down, as well as DJs Inn, Bellevue, Aminus, Samuel, Bilibobcat, performances and special guests! Doors open at 22:00. More information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/440123569411341/?fref=tsAnd finally….WE COULD NOT LEAVE MAY WITHOUT WRAPPING UP MPA–B IN STYLE, WITH ONE BIG NAUGHTY PARTY. Hosted at SHIFT club and organised by the power ladies behind the curated series Us Inc., dedicated to celebrating and playing with the performativity of sexuality and gender, this epic closing party will kick off at 20:00 with a final scrumptious BBQ. Doors will then open at 22:00 (entry 5-10€) and the evening will continue with performances by Ran Chai Bar-zvi, DEAR US and live DJs sets with Zabi, Kidd Cassino Parker, Angel Funke, BodyBuildings, Sara Miller and Peter Power. As Frank Homeyer says: "Dance dance dance ... dance". We'll surely do!
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/us-inc-amy-cade--leen-horsford.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/565097440178219/573310992690197/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
This afternoon Roberta Orlando / r0. presents PATH ACTS. Based on observation and listening of surrounding urban space, “Path Acts” plays the human movement and experience on the streets, with more awareness. The body and the mind explore the public space of our cities and their components, also permitting to exploring ourselves. It is inspired by the street training which is divided between “Path Of Joy” and “Path Of Safety” and Roberta Orlando will performs both. The “Path Acts” will take place at Mehringplatz, in Kreuzberg from 1530-1600. People are invited to create and lead a group path or their own. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may30.htmlhttp://r0inconnu.blogspot.com/Meanwhile Us inc. invite you to warm up the 2nd night of their curatorial series hosted at SHIFT club and to come down for a tasty BBQ at 17.00, before gathering inside the venue at 20.00 for XXX story time, during which Us Inc. will open up the space for anyone and everyone to come and share their story. With no documentation of the evening, what happens at this story night stays at the story night! Through sharing our intimate, funny, embarrassing, and empowering experiences of gender and sexuality, we will celebrate our differences. The 3-6€ entry donation will go to Lamdba, a Berlin organisation supporting young LGBT people ( https://www.lambda-bb.de/) More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/us-inc-amy-cade--leen-horsford.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/157654511076003/And finally, at 2100 (sharp!!) Moran Sanderovich will carry out her hit and run performance INSIGHT SKIN at the Holocaust Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe. The performance deals with the way repressed memories and interior conflicts shape and transform the human body. When presented at the Holocaust Memorial, questions of repetition are animated through the performance. “The path of modern humanity goes from humanity through nationality to bestiality” (Grillparzer, 1848). Due to the subversive character of the performance, the organisers recommend you arriving on time. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/dovrat-meron.html
Us Inc. are ready: the club is set, the artists have warmed up, the DJs await for you in their shiny booths and this duo of MPA-B Associate Curators, Leen Horsford and Amy Cade, can’t wait to welcome you all to their three day-long performance art extravaganza at SHIFT, dedicated to celebrating gender and sexuality. “It is not our differences that divide us, rather it is our inability to recognise, accept and celebrate those differences, ” (Audre Lorde) say their curatorial statement. And Us Inc. will do exactly that: celebrate those differences with a rich programme featuring storytelling, performances, lap dancing, music, audience interactions and more! Today is the BIG OPENING, kicking off at 17:00 with Rosana Cade’s “My Big Sister Taught Me This Lapdance” and continuing performances and music by Elise Terranova, Mischa Badasyan, Roberta Orlando, , The Savages. La Poulette, Dwayne Strike, Kay P. Rinha and Mad Kate | the Tide. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/us-inc-amy-cade—leen-horsford.html https://www.facebook.com/events/355842031183879/?ref=ts&fref=ts Big openings are also followed by big closings, and today Associate Curators Laura Biagioni, and Stefania Angeling & Judith Lavagna, will bring to an end their extensive programme with two performance evenings respectively at Uferstudio and L’Atelier Kunst(spiel)raum. SHADOWS OF aiKia, a movement-based interactive audio-visual performance inspired by the process of individuation, described by Carl Gustav Jung’s analytical psychology, will see the group Stratofyzika return to the stage, after having premiered the project at Platoon Kunsthalle’s first Salon Revolutionär. “Is it possible to shatter these projections and uncover the true self?” Conceptually inspired by the process of individuation, focusing on the “shadow aspects” of our egos; parts of personality which remain unconscious, only to be revealed in the mirror image of others. Tonight Uferstudio Studio 1 hosts two performances at 1930 and 2130 (10€/7€). More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/laura-biagioni.html https://www.facebook.com/events/333549323415479/?fref=ts Meanwhile L’Atelier Kunst(spiel)raum in Kreuzberg, will present a finissage of the exhibition ‘Displaying the Instant’, featuring performances of Christian Patracchini (20h), Pierre-Étienne Morelle (20h30) and Nicolas Puyjalon (21h30). ‘DISPLAYING THE INSTANT’ is a time-based project investigating performance art in relation to its production of presence. The title refers to the question of how performative action can be exhibited, in consideration of the display of its documentation, protocoles, fragments, relics and artworks. ‘DISPLAYING THE INSTANT’ aims to focus on the ontology of this ‘immaterial labour’, where performance does not end with the experience in front of an audience. It rather constitutes an art form through the production of artefacts and their mediatization, both embodied into a ‘time-bound’ exhibition process. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/stefania-angelini—judith-lavagna.html The wonderful space Naherholung Sternchen will see artists Stella Veloce, Katie Dunbar, Emilio Gordoa and Anaïs Héraud presenting REFLEKTOR a performative and poetic introspection on the relationship between the desire to be witnessed and the individual quest for identity. Two performers and two composers will develop their work in this multimedia event, transcending the borders between music and performance. Working with light, voice, sound and movement, they adapt, confront and link their own practice in a three part installation developed in the unique and inspiring space. It starts at 20:00 (entrance donations) More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may291.html https://www.facebook.com/events/267916443345431/ And last but not least Agora collective, also conclude their project titled BRIDGES AND NON-BRIDGES OF PERFORMANCE ART AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE, which saw contemporary dancers and performance artists working hand in hand in an investigation of this seemingly different practices during the course of a month. Tonight it’s the final performance starting at 18:00 and finishing with the sunset by Alison Crocetta and Yurie Umamoto titled RAIN OR SHINE. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may4.html https://www.facebook.com/events/461082793969628/
Who says MPA-B is coming to an end? With 4 more days left on the programme, and plenty more wonderful performance art projects coming up your way…we're well far away from being near the end.
This afternoon, starting at 17:00 (free entrance) Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platzthere will host a lecture (in German) with curators Beatrice E. Stammer and Kaj Osteroth about RE.ACT.FEMINISM #2, a living performing archive which is continually expanding and travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013. The archive presents feminist, gendercritical and queer performance art by over 120 artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, as well as contemporary positions. The lecture is part of the WATCHING A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE performance/lecture/exhibition series at Weissensee Kunsthochschule.
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/may161.html
http://kunsthalle.kunsthochschule-berlin.de
http://www.reactfeminism.de/prog_overview.php
The ongoing collaboration between Associate Curators Paula Marie Hildebrandt & Nathalie Fari, will materialise today in MADE IN OMNITOPIA-BERLIN (MIO-B 2013), starting at19:00 (free entrance) at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Moabit. Starting point for ‚made in omnitopia‘ is the concept of omnitopia originally coined by urban scholar Andrew Wood: ‚utopia‘ (not-place) and ‚heterotopia‘ (other-place) to reveal the shift from totalizing narratives to overlapping contradictory narratives. Omnitopia can best be described as a kind of embodied performance, always in the present tense and ‚made in omnitopia‘ – will trace the contours of omnitopia in today's Berlin, where public life in the sense of meaningful human interaction happens or could have happened...
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/nathalie-fari--paula-marie-hildebrandt.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/170144116480648/?fref=ts
If you have missed the Warmer Brothers' HOT ACTS (URBAN RITUALS), you can still join tonight's dinner at Mab's apartment. There are 2-3 places available and you can reserve your own spot at: cookingnomad@gmail.com or you can call Pepe at +4915217014928. Four HOT ACTS have so far created four distinct evenings, which show that each ‘repetition’ reveals that each act remains a virgin. For hot acts # 5 “@!?&#”, the Warmer Brothers ask the same question: "what does it mean to be together? We cook the same thing, our leftovers. Yet for sure, it will turn out to be a different social experience. Moods change, energies shift, time passes, food gets cooked. A prayer to the guests: as you arrive at the meeting place with your excess food, things, and thoughts, try to smile at the possibility that these leftovers of yours might just be what we need to complete today’s hot social recipe. See you at Mab’s place!"
More information here:
http://hotacts.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/hot-acts-5/
Happy Monday! This afternoon between 14:00 and 19:00 (free entrance) make your way to Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz | Weissensee Kunsthochschule, where Prof. Else Gabriel and Prof. Thaddäus Hüppi, as part of the WATCHING A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE performance/lecture/exhibition series, will present Mitmachperformance für „hallo alle…in der Halle“ „BLUTBILD, Deutsches Rotes Kreuz + Blutwurstmanufaktur, jede/r kann gutes tun.“ More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may161.htmlhttp://kunsthalle.kunsthochschule-berlin.de/You can also visit, by appointment only, UNTITLED SINGULAR ACT the performative installation by artist Dolanbay at Grüntaler9, resulting from three days of performances and examination of the Singularity of an act within the mode of Dolanbay artistic practice. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/teena-lange.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/395103353936627/?fref=tsAnd tonight, come and enjoy for one more time…. PERFORMER STAMMTISCH curated by Jörn J. Burmester & Florian Feigl comes to an end today at NeuHoch (19:00-22:00 - 3€ donation) with two performances and a follow up conversation with the Canadian artist Karin Turcot and Berlin-based Taiwanese artist Lan Hungh. Karin, who has travelled specifically from her native Québec to be with us during MPA-B, will present RECURRENCE both intended as "repetition", in which the singularity of the gesture disappears and gives way to a series where the expectation / apprehension that comes is grounded in the knowledge of what came, and as "trauma", the Remembrance of what this was. Meanwhile Lan will present MY PERFORMANCES ALWAYS FAIL. Every time Lan plans a performance, it always goes wrong. And he asks: "Why is that? Is it because Berliners are all performers? How should it be possible to successfully plan a failure?". More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/joumlrn-j-burmester--florian-feigl.html
A few projects on today's programme, are wrapping up. Don't miss the chance to see them. With a city map and some planning you can enjoy a little bit of each! But first, let us introduce you the new projects of the day: Dovrat Meron's curated series Beyond Commemoration continues with an intervention to the site of the Holocaust Memorial, titled SMALL QUESTIONS FOR LARGE PLACES by artists Valeria Schwarz & Maik Kerner (17:00-19:00). In this intervention, Valeria Schwarz will explore the boundaries between the terms monument (Denkmal) and memorial (Mahnmal). She will raise the visitor’s awareness to the conventions and behavioural codes evoked by the memorial. While Maik Kerner, as a kind of guardian of site specific consciousness, will discuss with the visitors the rules of the memorial and whether their behaviour within this semi-public place is appropriate or not. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/dovrat-meron.htmlAs part of the ongoing WATCHING A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE exhibition, lecture and performance series at Weissensee Kunsthochschule, today there will be a lecture (in German, 17:00, free entrance) titled "To Be Real – Performance und Performativität" with curator Viktor Neumann. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may161.htmlwww.kunsthalle.kunsthochschule-berlin.deToday sees also a new phase in artist Dolanbay's 4 day-long space intervention at Grüntaler9 (15:00-21:00 - 2€) titled UNTITLED SINGULAR ACT, in which the artist is examining the Singularity of an act within the mode of his artistic practice. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/teena-lange.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/395103353936627/?fref=tsAnd now, on their final day we have…. PANIK FOR BRUNCH (11:00-13:00 - 2€) + PANINK FOR OPEN FLOOR (15:30-18:00 - 2€) close their series of brunches and interactive performances today, with a networking session with the PAN Vienna group and guests, during which "you will get closer for a while, learn from each and look at how performance art positions itself in networks and how it uses, converts, sabotages and de-constructs networks". Panik takes place at L'Atelier Kunst(spiel)arum in Kreuzberg. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/pan-vienna.htmlPIC - PIECES IN CHAIN, an event around Performance Art, Documentation and Scores curated and organized by Bassano Bonelli Bassano, Barbara Marcel, Camila Rhodi, Maicyra Leão and Vera Sofia Mota, and featuring different artists each day, finishes today at Altes Finanzamt from 16:00 to 23:00. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may23.htmlWORKS ON PAPER, a series of Sunday performances curated by and hosted at Momentum, which for the past three weeks has brought together international artists based in Berlin to use paper both as form and as content; not as a blank slate upon which to create, but as a dynamic building block with which to create, closes today with Kate Hers, “7 Drawings, Twenty-eight Kisses” (17:00 - 17:45) and Joyce Clay, “Book II” (18:00 - 19:00) More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may5.htmlhttp://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e65fb0966d947fed1f941f36a&id=4bf0c1e6d1LIVE ART REVIEW (17:00-22:00 free entrance) part of the month-long curated series (CON)TEMPORARY SPACE-TIME, where performances are followed by a conversation between artists and performance art practitioners, also closes its programming today. See 林其蔚 Lin Chi-Wei, 湯皇珍 Tang Huang-Chen, 吳逸中 Effie Wu, 瓦旦 、烏瑪 Watan Wuma and Barbara Lázara performing and then interviewed by Stefania Angelini (curator and initiator of L'atelier-kunst(spiel)arum), Márcio Carvalho (visual artist, performance artist and curator of CO-LAB Editions), Cat Robertson (artist, a curator at Tate Britain/Modern and Fine Art Professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London), Bronie Dickson (visual artist, critic and media specialist, London) and Allegra Solitude (artist and curator of Liebig12, Berlin) More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/lan-hungh-yun-ting-hung--i-chen-tsou.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/491655077571632/?fref=tsAnd finally, tune in tonight from 22:00-23:00 and follow Mike Hentz's final RADIOSHOW PERFORMANCE on REBOOT.FM, a broadcast for theoretical discourses, outlines of what performance art could be, as well as statements on the subject, set to sound samples of musical pieces and debates. You can listen to Mike here: 88,4 MHz in Berlin & 90,7 MHz in Potsdam and online: reboot.fm More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/mike-hentz.html
Photo Credits: Thelma Bonavita at Agora Collective
25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st: these are the last seven days remaining on the MPA-B programme! Make the most of them, and start from today with a day PACKED with performance art activities, workshops, interventions and performances to cater for all tastes and adventurous spirits. Despite the weather, several artists from today's programme will take to the streets of Berlin to carry out a variety of site-specific interventions. Pack your umbrella and waterproof gear and show them support! And now…in chronological order: Today, two 2 day-long workshops with the artists from the SHADOWS series curated by Laura Biagioni will take place consecutively at N.K. project space. Join them both! From 11:00-15:00 you can develop a relational performance through the conceptual analysis of the creative process, with the artists from the Mali Weil group during a workshop titled RELATIONAL MACHINES FOR EPHEMERAL EXPERIENCES (cost €50 for both days). And from 16:00-21:00 you can join Stratofyzika and their workshop SHADOWS OF aiKia where you will learn how to develop your very own movement-based interactive audio-visual performance (cost €50 for both days). More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/laura-biagioni.htmlFrom 11:00 to 14:00 MYPERFORMANCE3102, organised by Dirk Thorwarth returns to the borough of Neukölln with performance art interventions in the public sphere at Herrfurthplatz with: Anders Zettelmann, Frank Homeyer, Grit Lindau, Julie Jaffrenou, Patrick Jambon, Richard Raabensaat, Stephanie Hanna, Yoto + many more. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may251.html PANIK FOR BRUNCH (11:00-13:00 - 2€) + PANINK FOR OPEN FLOOR (15:30-18:00 - 2€) continue on their roster of brunches and interactive performances with a special weekend programme including a networking session with the PAN Vienna group and guests, during which "you will get closer for a while, learn from each and look at how performance art positions itself in networks and how it uses, converts, sabotages and de-constructs networks". More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/pan-vienna.htmlFrom 13:00 to 16:00 at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Joseph Patricio brings his final street intervention BIG AND BITE SIZE, during which he will offer free street food to the public and thematize a different discourse about dimension (of monuments) and if size really matters. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may4.htmlFrom 15:00 at Platz der Republik in front of the Bundestag, Stefan Riebel continues with his series of live actions titled WAITING in which he will wait for occurrences that he doesn't not know of yet and wait until there is something that was worth waiting for. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may251.htmlAfter spending three weeks exploring the area around Tacheles, Mariana Delgado concludes her investigations today as part of her project titled ARTIST IN EXHBITION with a street action that will start at 15:00 at Monbijoupark (near bronze sculpture) - then Tacheles (main entrance - now closed door) - then Tacheles back door (sculpture garden) - then Bodenmuseum (via either Canal, Tango and Commedia) and back to Monbijoupark. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may4.htmlArtist Dolanbay continues his 4 day-long space intervention at Grüntaler9 from 15:00-21:00 (2€), with UNTITLED SINGULAR ACT, in which the artist will examine the Singularity of an act within the mode of his artistic practice. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/teena-lange.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/395103353936627/?fref=tsA shop window in Neukölln at Ganghofer Str. 6, returns to entice passersby for one last time in SUPPER III form the +|+|+ series by Associate Curator Stephanie Hanna in collaboration with Ariane Blankenburg. In Supper III, French artist Alexine Chanel will analyse and pointedly dissect the art world. Twelve dinner guests, all artists, will take part in a 12-course meal. The items on the menu are all fake and composed of sculptures of increasing size, coloured and organized in the order of the spectrum of light. The performance starts at 16:00 until 18:00. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/stephanie-hanna.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/606354089375764/?fref=tsPIC - PIECES IN CHAIN, an event around Performance Art, Documentation and Scores curated and organized by Bassano Bonelli Bassano, Barbara Marcel, Camila Rhodi, Maicyra Leão and Vera Sofia Mota, and featuring different artists each day, continues for a third day at Altes Finanzamt from 16:00 to 23:00. Today's artists are: Moritz Geiser, Valentina Jager, Maicyra Leão, Camila Bastos & Maria Fernanda Lopes, Karl Thorbergsson and Kirsty Kross. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may23.htmlFrom 17:00 a lecture by Helge Meyer on the legendary Black Market International group (the lecture will be in German), takes place at Weissensee Kunsthochschule during the series WATCHING A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE curated by Patrycja German and Prof. Thaddäus Hüppi (lab for tomorrow). More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may161.htmlwww.kunsthalle.kunsthochschule-berlin.deLIVE ART REVIEW, curated by (CON)TEMPORARY SPACE-TIME will feature performances by international artists 蘇宇燊 Su Yu-Shen, 鄭詩雋 Cheng Shih-chun, Anya Liftig, Valerie Kuehne, Brian McCorkle and Esther Neff (Panoply Performance Lab) and a review/interview panel with Jörn J. Burmester, Tiny Domingos, Francesca Romana Ciardi and Lan Hungh. The event kicks off at 17:00 at Liebig12 in F'schain and go on until 22:00 (entrance free). More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/lan-hungh-yun-ting-hung--i-chen-tsou.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/491655077571632/?fref=tsBRIDGES AND NON-BRIDGES OF PERFORMANCE ART AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE, a month-long programme by Agora Collective, brings you today a performance by Thelma Bonavita titled FERVO starting at 19:00, a Picnic Performative Evening or a frame of work without direction but with intention of continuity, without beginning or end but with axes of occurrence, without steps or stages but with transitory states. To indulge yourself with Fervo, Please bring something to take part of the picnic. Anything: drinks, snacks, towel, umbrella, plastic bag. Whatever you wish. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may4.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/631742736853417/For MPA-B 2013, Mess Collective will collaborate with international tattooist and performance artists to create a shrine for a contemporary spirituality at AKA Gallery. Over the course of a day, Marcus O'Shea will be tattooed by hand in a live ritual using ink made from the ashes of texts found sacred to the artists of the collective. The performance will go from 20:00 to 01:00 (5€ suggested donations). More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may251.html
Today, two new projects from our group of 23 Associate Curators, come to life: the BEYOND COMMEMORATION series curated by Dovrat Meron and the SHADOWS series curated by Laura Biagioni. BEYOND COMMEMORATION questions the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and explores alternative ways of commemorating the millions Jews killed during the Nazi regime, by inviting different artists to make site-specific works in Eisenman's controversial monument. Today, starting at 19:00 at OKK Gallery in Wedding, you can see an exhibition of the work of the participating artists: Birgit Auf der Lauer, Moran Sanderovich, Valeria Schwarz & Maik Kerner. The exhibition runs until June 2nd. Performances will take place on the 26th. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/dovrat-meron.htmlLaura Biagioni brings to the MPA-B programme SHADOWS, a series of performances mixing art and new technologies and reflecting on the universal law of action and reaction, as well as workshops with the artists Mali Weil and Stratofyzika. Today starting at 18:30 and going on until 22:30 with performances every 30 minutes (8€/6€ - reservations at: info.animalspirits@gmail.com & +49 177 7477 181) Mali Weil will perform ANIMAL SPIRITS at Ada Studio in the Uferstudios' complex. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/laura-biagioni.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/567028766652551/?fref=tsIf you missed today's PANIK FOR BRUNCH with the PAN Vienna group at L'Aterlier Kunst(spiel)raum you can still join this fantastic and eclectic group of artists from 15:30 to 18:00 (2€) with PANIK FOR OPEN FLOOR. Today's hosts are Miss Universe and Burçak Konukman. The Open Floor will include performances by Anaïs Héraud, Burçak Konukman, Marieke Warmelink, Miss Universe, Takahiro Tomats exploring the crashes in networking. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/pan-vienna.htmlAssociate Curator Teena Lange concludes her series THE IMAGE IS THE ACT? at Grüntaler9 with a final performance project with Dolanbay titled UNTITLED SINGULAR ACT, in which the artist will examine the Singularity of an act within the mode of his artistic practice. Dolanbay will perform today from 15:00-21:00 (2€) with the following co-performers: Lea Dietschmann, Maria De Faria, Hikaru Inagawa, Joachim Krüger, Christopher MacBlain, Lisa Stertz, Angie Teickner, Irene Pascual, Lukas Panayi, Judith Rudolf, Ellen Weise, William Woolf. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/teena-lange.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/395103353936627/?fref=tsBritish artist Emma Dixon brings a site-specific project to the gardens outside GlogauAir from 12:00 to 14:00 (free entrance) which will see the participation of 10 performers and plenty of paper to fold. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may241.htmlMeanwhile Marisa Benjamin will perform TRACING GRAVITY at the gallery space Joao Cocteau from 19:00-19:45 (free entrance) a project based on the idea of verticality and how it affects artificial and natural settings. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may241.htmlViviana Druga performs INCAGED from 22:00 (free entrance) a performative act during which the artist will re-enact the self-captivity, pursuing the transformative effect of indulging into and escaping a self-made cage-prison. INCAGED takes place at Rose – TransformationsSalon. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may241.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/552708868105129/?fref=ts PIC - PIECES IN CHAIN, an event around Performance Art, Documentation and Scores curated and organized by Bassano Bonelli Bassano, Barbara Marcel, Camila Rhodi, Maicyra Leão and Vera Sofia Mota, and featuring different artists each day, continues for a second day at Altes Finanzamt 19:00-23:00 at Altes Finanzamt. More information here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may23.htmlWarmer Brothers continue their cooking extravaganza series in people's apartments with HOT ACTS no.4 'Spice Secrets'. They say: "We are what we eat. That's the rule of our cooking game. Forget your ID's, your CV's, and your ABC's. The only talk on the table will be your handle on spices, and how spicy you can get." Hot Acts no. 4 will happen in a long in Kreuzberg, and it's already in full capacity. More information here: hotacts.wordpress.com/dinner-schedules http://www.mpa-b.org/may141.html
Join PANIK FOR BRUNCH + PANIK FOR OPEN FLOOR with the artists from Performance Art Network Vienna (PAN Vienna) for another day of performative adventures. Today's hosts are Michael-Franz Woels and Sylvie Proidl and the programme at l'Atelier Kunst(spiel)raum in Kreuzberg is: Brunch 11:00-13:00 (2€) | Having a meal together may be seen as one of the most original ways to create a social network . Open Floor 15:30-18:00 (2€) | Contemplate the different flavours of white sheet with coloured information on the table while they are building a huge, eat-able genealogical tree of PAN-Vienna. and More info here: http://www.mpa-b.org/pan-vienna.htmlFrom our Associate Curator Ilya Noe’s programme, today marks the finissage of the exhibition "EROGATE/SURROGATE PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTS,” which will include special musical guests DiSH and Brittsommar. The evening kicks off at 20:00 – free entrance More info here: http://www.mpa-b.org/ilya-noe.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/events/133614810163534/?fref=tsAnd for a review of EROGATE/SURROGATE PERFORMANCE SERIES go here: http://mpa-blog.tumblr.com/post/51068636727/erogate-surrogate-performance-series-part-2-and-3-byAn impressive array of artists, begins their four day-long project PIC - PIECES IN CHAIN. Curated and organized by Bassano Bonelli Bassano, Barbara Marcel, Camila Rhodi, Maicyra Leão and Vera Sofia Mota, ” PIC – Pieces in Chain” is an event around Performance Art, Documentation and Scores. During 4 days event, artists will present their works and also create dispositives involving the audience. Today's programme starts at 19:00-23:00 at Altes Finanzamt. More info here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may23.htmlIsabel Pauer+guests bring VOR DEM ANFANG / BEFORE THE BEGINNING at Scotty Enterprise on Oranienstrasse, in which they will explore the moments before the beginning of a performance. The project goes from 20:00 to 20:25, with free entrance. More info here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may23.htmlStarting from 20:00, Laura McLardy, Susan Ploetz and Joachim Hamou continue their project MOONLIGHT LOUNGE AT KULE Theater, a series of performative works, through which, oscillating between stages of exclusion and inclusion through sound, movement and film they will interpret the potentiality of performance embedded in the encounters with the public. More info here: http://www.mpa-b.org/may22.htmlmoonlightloungekule.tumblr.com Warmer Brothers bring another HOT ACTS (URBAN RITUALS), a series of ‘cooked situations’ that generate warmth inside different houses in the city. Tonight is HOT ACTS no.3 Birthday Spell. From one hot act to another, the Warmer Brothers bring their spices and cambimba to a house in Pankow for a secret birthday bash tonight. Who knows, but everyone might just end up dancing to this tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UV6HVMRmdk. Two more slots open. Come if you are game to syrtaki spontaneously. More info here: hotacts.wordpress.com/dinner-schedules http://www.mpa-b.org/may141.html
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