Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective

PROGRAM

Motorenhalle ...
08.05.2019 20:00
Lecture-Performance: Katalin Ladik (Carte blanche event with the Grande Dame of poetic performance in Eastern Europe!)
Katalin Ladik’s Creative Transitions - surviving documenta 14
There are shifts and drifts inside the internal narrative of the each visual poetry object. An unexpected medial transformation act was mapping her poetic sound pattern to an embroidery object: Katalin Ladik „wave” the sound patterns into an embroidery art work using a palm size half-embroidered handkerchief. Finishing the embroidery work she tried something completely unusual: she inverted the embroidery object from the “right side” to the “wrong side”, from the “front” to the “reverse side”, exploring the mystery of the back side threads. How are the patterns formed? „The beauty appears on the surface, but the joy of creation takes place on the reverse, on the underside. The energy that is freed from the restrictions unfolds and prevails. It does not follow the rules, it transforms into joy and pain. You cannot see this from the front, only from the „wrong” side of the art work „– says she. This is the most intriguing part of the experiment. The closing sequence are two recordings inspired by the front and back side of the embroidered napkin.

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EXHIBITION

Poetry & Performance. The Eastern European Perspective
12.04.2019 - 07.07.2019

Since the second half of the twentieth century, in particular poets and artists in Eastern Europe have taken 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 material and medial dimension of language, and by creating performative situations for themselves and their audiences within which possibilities of verbal expression could be tested and acted out. The exhibition presents authors from subcultures in socialist states along with contemporary positions. Now and then, poetry and performance take on an exceptional topicality in periods of political crisis, as these ephemeral and flexible art forms enable the reflection of relations and contexts that remain otherwise undiscussed.

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 • Semyon Khanin (Orbita) • 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 • 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

Curators
Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, both University of Zurich (University of Zurich, ERC Project „Performance Art in Eastern Europe“)

Motorenhalle. Project Centre Dresden - Wachsbleichstraße 4a, 01067 Dresden, Germany
www.motorenhalle.de
April 12 – July 7, 2019
Opening: Thursday, April 11, 2019, 8–10 pm
Opening hours Wed 13:00–20:00, Thurs and Fri 15:00–19:00, Sat and Sun 14:00–18:00
Entrance fee 4/3 €, Fridays Entrance free
guided tours 13.4., 11.5., 15.6., 6.7.2019, each 16:00