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2023

GLITTER GARMENT BRAIN STOOL UN-SMOOTHED DESIRES CERAMIC DUST

 Performance workshop by Antye Guenther 

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Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL) 

Supported by the Stokros Funds and Jan Van Eyck Academy

 

As part of her MERIAN PhD trajectory, Antye Guenther analyzes data smoothing and researches smoothing algorithms that are ubiquitously applied in data science. Exploring ways of how ceramics and ceramic procedures could help us approach, understand, and question smoothed and un-smoothed data practices from alternative angles.

The event introduces the public to Guenther’s research in form of a dramatic exercise rehearsal and invites to engage with the topic in a collaborative, participatory way.

 

 

 

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2022

GLITTER CURTAIN BRAIN STOOL BROKEN MOULD REFLECTIVE SUIT

Lecture performance by Antye Guenther

 

Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL) 

Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Felisabeth Vemaat Muller Fonds and Amarte Fonds

 

Visual artist and researcher Antye Guenther focuses on 3D brain data (re)construction and (re)rendering practices, exploring the various intricate and, sometimes, invisible ways, norms, hierarchies, biases, and (dominant) discourses that are installed in the underlying imaging software, technologies and practices.

In the first chapter of her performance series, Antye introduces and activates the first ceramic and textile materializations of her research into 3D biometrical brain data visualization software. Focusing on segmentation, peeling and homogenization practices, and on matter that resists and just won't let go.

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2020

XENOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENTS 

001b: TRYING PLASTIC VARIATIONS

Lecture performance by Adriana Knouf

 

Kapelic Gallery, Ljubljiana (SI)

Supported by Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Department for Culture Municipality of Ljubljana

Co-produced by City of Women

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Premiering at the City of Women festival, 001a: Trying Plastic Variations is a lecture performance that frames this project within previous enactments of self-experimentation with her voice, hormones, and the audacity of tranxxeno imaginaries of outer space.

With vocal transmutations based on the artist’s own self-directed arduous voice training, meditations on her prior work that has orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station, and early discoveries from the Eromatase project, the artist enacts novel constellations of the body that rise from an understanding of its malleability.

 

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2018

DEEP PHYTOCRACY: FERAL SONGS

Participatory performance by Špela Petrič

 

Treepark Medlog, Celje (LT)

Supported by Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia & Vilnius Academy of Arts

 

As part of the inquiries into Vegetal Otherness, Špela Petrič set out to produce her own phytocracy-revealing onto-epistemological tools that are inspired by actual institutions/domains/cultural practices framing plant-people relations, but also playfully oblivious to their axioms and boundaries.

The fabulative expedition into the “wilderness” of Tree park Medlog, Celje, invites participants to reflect on plant governance as governance of plants. Guided by the artist’s alter ego Živa Pikaja, they encounter the vegetal through a multitude of uncanny perspectives, facilitated by recombinant tools, specifically created to point to dissonances and reciprocity in plant-people relationships.

 

 

 

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2015

BIPOLAR

Dance by Ana Barros

 

Santiago (CL)

 

Bi-Polar is a contemporary dance performance where two crossed bodies search to appear and disappear immersed in a world of technological control.

 

 

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2014

HEET AALTAR

Installation performance by Barbara Echeverria

 

T'arsennal theater, Mechelen (BE)

Co-produced by Mestizo Arts Festival

 

Heet Aaltar approached the relationship we have to death and our deceased.

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