Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective
Exhibitions that took place between 2017 and 2022
(scroll down for entry text, brief documentation and main reviews)
Культура Медіальна / Kultura Medialna, Dnipro, Ukrainę
25.11.2021 — 12.02.2022
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen and Yuri Birte Anderson & Kateryna Rusetska.
In cooperation with Yaroslav Futymskyi.
24.06. – 17.06. 2021
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Emese Kürti
Baths/Lázně – Okresní galerie Liberec/ Regional Art Gallery Liberec
17. 12. 2020 – 18. 5. 2021
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen
Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław / Wrocław Contemporary Museum
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curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Agata Ciastoń
12.4. – 7.7.2019
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen
16.09. – 28.10. 2018
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen
Gallery Podroom, Cultural Center of Belgrade / Serbia
8.3. – 29.3. 2018
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen and Dubravka Đurić
New Synagogue, Žilina / Slovakia
22.12. 2017 – 10.3. 2018
curated by Tomáš Glanc, Daniel Grúň, Sabine Hänsgen
FOOTNOTES ON ART online magazine
BLOK MAGAZINE Announcement
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 Booklets
Poetry & Performance. Poézia a performancia/The Eastern European Perspective: východoeurópska perspektiva, Tomáš Glanc, Daniel Grúň, Sabine Hänsgen (eds.), Žilina: Nová synagóga 2017 (Slovak/English)
World poetry day(s) 2018: languages games, 21st – 24th March 2018: reading-listening, discussions, exhibition, performances, films / Svetski dan(i) poezije 2018: jezičke igre, 21-24. mart 2018: čitanja-slušanja, razgovori, izložba, performansi, filmovi / Фестивал Светски дан(и) поезије, 21-24. Март 2018: читања-слушања, разговори , изложба, перформанси, филмови, Olivera Stošić Rakić, Dubravka Đurić, Vladimir Kopici (eds.), Belgrad 2018 (Festival brochure, Serbian/English)
Poesie & Performance. Die osteuropäische Perspektive / Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen (eds.), Zurich: Shedhalle 2018 (German/English)
Poetry & Performance. Die osteuropäische Perspektive, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen (eds.), Dresden: Motorenhalle 2019 (German/English)
Poezja i performans: perspektywa wschodnioeuropejska/Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Agata Ciastoń (eds.), Wrocław: Contemporary Museum 2020 (Polish/English)
Poezie & Performance. Východoevropská perspektiva /Poesie & Performance. Die osteuropäische Perspektive, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Markéta Kroupová (eds.), Liberec Regional Gallery 2021 (Czech/German)
Vers & Performance. A kelet-európai perspektíva/Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Emese Kürti (eds.), Kassák Múzeum Budapest 2021 (Hungarian/English)
Поезія та Перформанс. Східноєвропейська перспектива/Poetry and Performance. The Eastern European Perspective, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Kateryna Rusetska, Mariya Yarchuk, Yuri Birte Anderson (eds.), Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture 2021(Ukrainian/English)
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
Zaborona Journal, 8.2. 2022 by Dinara Khalilova (in Ukrainian)
Zaborona Journal, 8.2. 2022 by Dinara Khalilova (in Russian)
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.
