To Be Real – performance and performativity

On Wed, MArch 27 2013 at 7 p.m.

in the auditorium of the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
Free entrance

Since its very beginning, the history of video art has revealed a close connection to performance art and the use of one’s own body as a surface on which to project the examinations of concepts of identity formation and presentation, leading to the current conceptions of multiple, fluid and performative identities. The screening “To Be Real – performance and performativity” presents current artistic positions which, by means of performative actions and gestures in the areas of experimental and documentary self-reflection, take up feministic, gender-theoretical or post-colonial discussions, deal with the construction of “normality” and “otherness” or reflect globalised as well as digitized conditions and its representation mechanisms. The screening presents works by Zackary Drucker, Niklas Goldbach, Ryan McNamara, Bjørn Melhus, Nandipha Mntambo, Tova Mozard and Ming Wong.

Viktor Neumann, born 1985 in Berlin, works as freelance curator and lecturer in Berlin. He studied art history at the Technical University, Berlin and the Humboldt University, Berlin, and has curated exhibitions and screenings e.g. at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Grey Noise, Dubai, and the Senatsreservespeicher, Berlin. He was the assistant curator of the III. Moscow Biennale For Young Art 2012. Currently he is a lecturer on “Theory of Media Art” in the Institute for  Time-based Media of the University of Arts, Berlin.