Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective
Under different circumstances, we would be meeting today at the opening of the exhibition “Poetry and Performance. The Eastern European Perspective” #poezjaiperformans 🍷. Since this is not possible 😷, instead we present the *Exhibition Guide* ➡️ link in BIO.
In the file you will find descriptions of six sections making up the exhibition, biographies of all the featured artists and numerous photographs. Soon we will also publish photographic documentation of the exhibition 📷 and invite you to online events accompanying the presentation 🎨
Previous editions:
New Synagogue, Žilina / Slovakia
22.12. 2017 – 10.3. 2018
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Daniel Grúň, Sabine Hänsgen
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Gallery Podroom, Cultural Center of Belgrade / Serbia
8.3. 2017 – 29.3. 2018
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen and Dubravka Đurić
16.09. 2017 – 28.10. 2018
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen
Motorenhalle – Wachsbleichstraße 4a, 01067 Dresden
Ausstellungsdauer/ exhibition dates 12.4.–7.7.2019
(1.5.,3.5. & 30.5.2019 – geschlossen/ closed)
Öffnungszeiten/ Opening hours Mi/ Wed 13–20.00, Do & Fr/ Thurs and Fri 15–19.00, Sa & So/ Sat and Sun 14–18.00
Eintritt/ Entrance fee 4/3 €, Freitag Eintritt frei/ Fridays Entrance free
Führungen/ guided tours 13.4., 11.5., 15.6., 6.7.2019, jeweils/ each 16.00
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen
Coming venues: Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław / Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Kassák Múzeum Budapest, Cultural Center (“Kultura Medialna”) in Dnipro, Baths/Lázně – Okresní galerie Liberec/ Regional Art Gallery Liberec
In the second half of the twentieth century, poets and artists in particular took up the challenge of reflecting on and investigating the instrumentalization of language for communicative and political-ideological purposes. They did so by drawing attention to the “made-ness” of language, its material and medial dimension, and by creating performative situations for themselves and their audiences within which possibilities of verbal expression could be tested and acted out. In Eastern Europe, poetry and performance played a significant role in the unofficial or partially tolerated cultural scene.
The writing practice of samizdat and its relation to the devices of concrete and visual poetry have been treated and presented in a number of previous projects. Until now however, less consideration has been given to the circumstances of performance. In addition to the typescript literature of samizdat, subcultural milieus attached particular importance to the oral recitation of poems, exhibitions, and poetry actions. The interrelation between text and situation in poetic acts functioned as a trigger for performances and happenings.
The exhibition presents authors from subcultures in socialist states along with contemporary positions that continue the legacy of combining poetry and performance. It shows the efforts of poets and artists to break free from controlled language and normative communicative now and then. Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective thus confronts the current social challenges in the post-socialist countries through the prism of language and ideology and looks back at their points of departure.
Sections:
– Writing-Reading Performance
– Audio Gestures
– Interventions in Public Space
– Cinematographic Poetry
– Body Poetry
– Language Games
Artists:
Milan Adamčiak • Akademia Ruchu • Nikita Alekseev • Gábor Altorjay • Pavel Arsenev • Damir Avdić • Babi Badalov • Bosch+ Bosch (Attila Csernik • Slavko Matković • László Szalma) • Collective Actions Group • Coro Collective • Ľubomír Ďurček • Exterra XX • Else Gabriel / Via Lewandowsky • Rimma Gerlovina • Jelena Glazova • Tomislav Gotovac • Group of Six Artists • Bohumila Grögerová / Josef Hiršal • Gino Hahnemann • Tibor Hajas • Václav Havel • Jörg Herold • Vladimir Kopicl • Dávid Koronczi • Katalin Ladik • Yuri Leiderman / Andrey Silvestrov • Via Lewandowsky/ Durs Grünbein • Vlado Martek • Kirill Medvedev • Jan Měřička • Andrei Monastyrski • Ladislav Novák • Pavel Novotný • NSRD (Hardijs Lediņš • Juris Boiko • Imants Žodžiks) • OHO Group (Nuša & Srečo Dragan • Naško Križnar) • Orange Alternative • Orbita (Semyon Khanin, Artur Punte, Vladimir Svetlov, Sergej Timofejev) • Roman Osminkin • Ewa Partum • Bogdanka Poznanović • Dmitri Prigov • Pussy Riot • Lev Rubinstein • Mladen Stilinović • Gabriele Stötzer • Tamás Szentjóby • Bálint Szombathy • Slobodan Tišma • Dezider Tóth (Monogramista T.D) • Raša Todosijević • Jaromír Typlt • Jiří Valoch
In cooperation with: Dubravka Djurić, Emese Kürti, Claus Löser, Pavel Novotný, Branka Stipančić, Darko Šimičić, Mara Traumane
Architecture: Matej Gavula (Žilina), RCNKSK architekti (Shedhalle Zürich, Motorenhalle Dresden)
Installation: Katarina Kostandinović (Belgrade)
The catalogue book will be published in 2020.
Slobodan Tišma: I want to tell you something, Belgrade 2018. Foto Ratko Rakin
Exhibition view. Shedhalle Zürich 2018. Photo Gina Folly
Exhibition view. Shedhalle Zürich 2018. Photo Gina Folly
Exhibition view. Shedhalle Zürich 2018. Photo RCNKSK
Foto: Andreas Seeliger
Foto: Andreas Seeliger
Exhibition Booklet
Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective. Hg. von Tomáš Glanc, Daniel Grún, Sabine Hänsgen, Žilina: Nová synagóga 2017.
Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective. Hg. von Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Zürich: Shedhalle 2018.
Poetry & Performance. Die osteuropäische Perspektive. Hg. von Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Dresden: Motorenhalle 2019.
Interview
Review
Pravda, 1.3. 2018 by Juraj Mojžiš
Artalk.cz, 9.3. 2018 by Jana Písaříková
springerin 2/2018 by Lucia Gavulá
Vreme, 1422, 5.4. 2018 by Jovana Georgievski
ArtReview, December 2018 by Olga Stefan
Novinki.de, 3.1. 2019 by Jelica Popović
ARTMargins, 27. 6. 2019 by Matthias Meindl
Kunstchronik, September/Oktober 2019 by Seraina Renz
Award
“Biela kocka” Award (“White Cube”, awarded by Rada galérií Slovenska) –– 1. prize in the category “independent project” 2018 for “Poetry&Performance. The Eastern European Perspective” in the New Synagogue Žilina.
