By Jenn Snider Éminence Grise Pulling back the grey curtain I step into the viewing area and find I am just a few feet away from her. Tucked into a small closet separated from the festival crowds, Berenicci Hershorn’s performing space is articulated by gauzy walls of plastic sheeting and the effect defocuses her from …
By Jenn Snider I’m looking for Christian Bujold. It’s after 3 pm, and he’s scheduled to be performing but I can’t find him anywhere. Popping my head into rooms and looking down hallways, I turn a corner and nearly take a stick in the eye. He’s here, with his back to me, picking up a …
When performing private architectures, he prefers to linger, but not too long Read More »
By Jenn Snider When I enter the performance space, Didier Morelli is climbing the wall, rubbing the blackboard with his face. Morelli: “John. John. You didn’t leave me a dry eraser. I’m having to use my face.” He is removing the remnants of John Court’s festival performance from the board. His cheeks and lips are …
By Alison Cooley As we enter the final day of the festival (and Jenn and I scramble to document the works we’ve seen in the past day), I wanted to share my BINGO process. We have one square left! It’s hard to quantify a lot of these things, so I’ve tried to go with the …
By Alison Cooley I have lost my notes detailing the gathering of small gestures which make up Vanishing Borders, a performance by Switzerland-based Iraqi artists Ali Al-Fatlawi and Wathiq Al-Ameri. I cannot sketch out the procedural building of a relation between these two, whose actions in concert and poetic counteraction with each other betray a …
By Alison Cooley claude wittmann’s performance, Radio Equals, has been recurring daily at 3 pm, and was broadcast on 93.1 fm. The preceding is a short dispatch in response to today’s final session. wittmann’s final action, Landsgemeinde happens today (November 2, 2014) at 4pm.
By Alison Cooley Francesca Fini’s performance space is a theatrical set. Her props and environment impeccably arranged, dramatically lit. Red, white and pinkare the scene’s characteristic colours. There is a bandaged white face on a table, a red suspended platform dripping a red popsicle over a fishbowl, an apron riddled with Eva Hesse-like protrusions. Fini …
By Jenn Snider “Okay, so I’ll go and check the mirror, but can you tell me if my eyes are uneven?”Anya Liftig has just asked me a confusing question, but as soon as I look at her I understand. She’s asking me if her eyeliner looks okay. I bend in and examine her handiwork.“The one …
By Alison Cooley A few ideas stick out from the third Performance Art Daily panel, themed “Approaching Architecture.” I am likely to carry these with me through the rest of the festival. The first is Gary Varro’s initial interrogation of the whole theme of the panel: where does the notion of architecture manifest in our …
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By Jenn Snider The second edition of Performance Art Dailies began with an introduction by session moderator, Paul Couillard. He explained the theme of ‘language sound body’ by breaking it down, word for word. Language……..Sound………Body The choice of word order was quite deliberate, Couillard explained— “Language is in somewhat of a black box. So this …
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