The first Performance residency in 2004 was significant for the emphasis placed on the body and the politics surrounding it, while 2006’s residency saw a greater focus on live performances in the public sphere. (Feb-March 07) Performance Art Residency will more specifically address the theatricality of installation art and the reality of performance art as installation.
The invited artists come from a wide cross section of practices that vary from live art to installation based performance, but the common thread will be the nexus between performance and installation.
In - Studio
Raimi Gbadamosi (London)
As an artist, writer and curator, Raimi investigates the complexity of social and cultural politics, always questioning the reader or viewer’s perceptions of ethnicity, race and culture. As an artist he has exhibited across the UK and Europe; has published several books including: Four Word (2004); Chromatophobia (2001); and Contents: Incredulous; Extrordinary People; Ordinary People (1998) and curated exhibitions in London, Exeter and Glasgow.
Motti Brecher (Tel Aviv)
Motti’s current character, the monkey, is the third part of a character trilogy which started in Israel with a character called rosko, an American country-glam star who takes a spiritual tour in the holy land. That character evolved into monty breaker, a futuristic cyber health-guru that coaches a smoke-quitting workshop and is set on thoroughly “cleaning” the planet and in his quest arrives in India (to rid the upcoming economic empire of its bad habits) but winds up finding his true self- the monkey.
Nikhil Chopra (Mumbai)
Nikhil’s work draws from the traditions of theatre, painting, and early studio photography. In his recent solo show in Mumbai, in November 2005, Nikhil presented The Death of Sir Raja III. The show was the third in a series of work in which the artist creates evocative tableaux and poses as the ficticious character, Sir Raja, for live audiences and film. The story around Sir Raja is woven through, and is a dramatization of, personal memory, old family photographs, an ancestral home, and endless stories of the family.
SS [Atieq] Listyowati (Jakarta)
Atieq is an art lover + art activist with experience in journalism especially in art space . She managed and organized some art events like these: Galeri Nomad (1998-1999), founder of AppreRoom (non-profit institution) which made some trainings of journalist in art, and others. Recently she took an observation in performance art’s history and its management in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore (2005-2006) which is a beginning-part of her observation of performance art, also in organizing of Indonesia International Performance Event 2006 which was produced by National Gallery at Jakarta last year on December. She is interested in performance art that is like bird migration, which fly away all the time, that can’t be stopped and make some breeding + assimilation with every place, including new forms and other perspectives.
Ni Jun (Shanghai)
Ni Jun is a young artist from Shanghai involved in installations and doing performance art actively in Shanghai. Her work which bridges through photographs to installations has been featured in international exhibitions like “China Rushes” in Germany and CHIINE:mc1
at Montpeller, France . She finished her third solo show last year in Shanghai and has been featured at the Shanghai Bizart and Duolun Museum .
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