Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts | Opening: March 17 ZKM | 
Germany.

http://moments.zkm.de/

Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts :: March 8 - April 29, 2012 
:: Opening: March 17; 4:00 pm :: ZKM | Center for Art and Media 
Karlsruhe, Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany.

Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts is an international live 
exhibition on the history of art performance in dance and fine arts. As 
an exhibition ‘in progress’, the project shows and develops new formats 
of museal presentation of live acts. The starting point is the interest 
in the processes of coming to terms with history in so-called 
re-enactments of historic performances, but which also comes to 
expression in the recently erupted controversy surrounding the museal 
presentability of performances by Joseph Beuys in photographic 
documentation. This is also reflected in the practice of a younger 
generation of performers and choreographs, such as in numerous 
historical appropriations and re-enactments. At the center of this is 
the ‘heroic’ period of the 1960s to the 1980s in which a radical (new) 
definition of the genre took place in the more intimate dialog between 
performance movements of fine arts and dance.

Moments develops new methodological and interdisciplinary formats of an 
active and not only museal representation of performance history. During 
the eight week duration of the exhibition project a scenic act around 
ten central stages of dance and performance history unfolds — as 
witnessed by a group of experts invited to accompany and observe for the 
entire period — before the audience. One of the key focal points is the 
performances and works by women who have consciously been thematizing, 
transgressing and critiquing the genre boundaries between dance, 
performance, and visual media since the 1960s. Here, they likewise 
reflect on the implicit male constructions of the gaze and the gestural 
logic of their colleagues.

The exhibition begins and ends in an empty space in which a lively 
exhibition display is built up in a permanent reciprocal movement 
between historical presence and medial documentation, museal 
re-presentation and scenic re-appropriation as well as new 
interpretation. A multiplicity of dialogically spirited situations 
emerge between performers, witnesses and public. Here, unlike more 
popular reenactments, recourse to history serves as a face à l’histoire, 
an active contrast of the historical and the present.

Among others, the artists represented in the exhibition will be Marina 
Abramović, Graciela Carnevale, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Reinhild 
Hoffmann, Channa Horwitz, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sanja Iveković, Adrian 
Piper and Yvonne Rainer. The artists themselves document their 
historical performances in exhibition spaces. In collaboration with 
colleagues from art and theory (Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Nikolaus Hirsch, 
Lenio Kaklea, Jan Ritsema, Christine De Smedt, Gerald Siegmund, Burkhard 
Stangl, Meg Stuart) Boris Charmatz approaches the documented works 
scenically and develops on-site a live act in a laboratory situation 
around this central moment of performance history. The artist Ruti Sela 
will be documenting this artistic approach to the work of their 
predecessors by way of film documentaries and will produce a film in the 
actual exhibition context itself. A group of students at renowned 
European universities will be accompanying the entire process. Directed 
by the group Charmatz, and in collaboration with the ZKM | Museum 
Communication, new performative methods and actions of the mediation of 
historical performance will be presented to visitors.

A publication will appear at the end of the exhibition.

Curators and exhibition dramaturgy: Boris Charmatz, Sigrid Gareis, Georg 
Schöllhammer
Display Concept: Johannes Porsch

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