MIRJAM VARADINIS
"PERFORMANCE ART AS A RESISTANCE FORMING PRACTICE"
LECTURE BY SPECIAL PROJECT CURATOR OF MOSCOW BIENNALE
SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
SATURDAY, 7.30 PM
After its high peak in the 1960s and 70s, in recent years performance art has again become an important part of contemporary art practices. Today, a young generation of artists is rediscovering the medium of performance, slowly shifting the focus from object based artworks to process-oriented genres.
Using acclaimed projects by Marina Abramovich, the Fluxus movement, Jiri Kovanda, and Allan Kaprow as well as her own special project for the 5th Moscow Biennale entitled "0 Performance - The Fragile Beauty of Crisis" as examples, curator Mirjam Varadinis will discuss performance art as a form of resistance and describe artistic practices that deliberately break the boundaries of the ordinary, the authority, and the laws of social hierarchy.
Admission is free, registration is essential.
Location: Garage Education Center
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Mirjam Varadinis is an art historian and curator at Kunsthaus Zürich since September 2002 where, in partnership with Venice Biennale 2011 curator Bice Curiger, she has been responsible for contemporary art exhibitions, including solo shows with Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley, Nedko Solakov, Urs Fischer, Mircea Cantor, Adrian Paci, Erik van Lieshout, Aleksandra Mir, and many others. Mirjam Varadinis was in charge of large-scale group exhibitions "Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now" and "Motion Picture(s)". She has published numerous catalogues and artist books and contributes to international art magazines. In 2005, in collaboration with designer and comic artist Annie Wu, she launched the Internet platform www.azple.com where users can download printable graphic artworks by famous artists.
