DEIMLING, BBB Johannes

Every Rose Has a Thorn
Friday October 31 8 pm
XPACE Cultural Centre

Presented by FADO Performance Art Centre

BBB Johannes Deimling uses everyday objects to create a living image (agierte Bilder) reflecting a society full of contradictions, sentimentality, stupidity, creativity and cooperation. Finding ideas and suggestions from the banality of daily life, Deimling transforms topics such as patience, will, war, religion and transportation into physical images. The artist’s head is often a focus in the work, as an integral part of a living sculpture or as material in a performance.

Since 1988, BBB Johannes Deimling has worked as an artist in the fields of performance art video, installation, drawing and music. His work has been presented at events and festivals in Europe, Israel, Canada and Cuba. Since 1998, Deimling has devoted much of his practice to lecturing on performance art at various academic institutions including: F+F (Switzerland) since 1998 and the Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia (since 2004. In 2006, he co-founded Port Performance – Forum for Performance Art, with artist Angelika Fojtuch.

Andrew James Paterson’s eyewitness account
Elaine Wong’s eyewitness account
FADO artist page for BBB Johannes Deimling