Áine Phillips in Wien - Performance im Tanzquartier
The Live Art Development Agency and Tanzquartier Vienna present: Performing Rights Vienna. 8 – 10 March 2007. Full programme details and bookings: www.tqw.at
Áine Phillips ( Ireland )
Harness
Saturday 10 March. 19.30 and 22.00. Studio
The artist re-enacts experiences of growing up with a profoundly brain damaged brother. This boy is violent and beautiful, harnessed to a wheelchair, helmeted to protect his face from falling in seizures.Twenty years later she gives birth to a daughter with dislocated hips who is strapped into traction for half a year. The artist speaks their embodiments and performs their modes of harness, translating constraint into tenderness, torture into rapture, helplessness into command. She shows the vulnerability of wholeness, the purpose of union in extreme human experience and how the personal becomes political …
Continuing the momentum of June 2006’s Performance Studies international (PSi)#12: Performing Rights, Performing Rights Vienna is a programme of performances, presentations, debates, workshops, screenings and interventions that aims to reflect the relationships between performance and human rights and between art and activism; to illustrate the creative strategies artists are using to effect social, cultural and political change; and to consider the role and responsibilities of artists, and performance itself, in the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights.
Performing Rights Vienna includes a workshop led by John Jordan (UK); a residency by Richard Dedomenici (UK); performances by Franko B (UK/Italy), Curious (UK), Robin Deacon (UK) and Áine Phillips (Ireland); screenings of historical and contemporary documents by Adrien Sina (France), The Vacuum Cleaner (UK), and Claudia Heu, Jeremy Xido, and Cabula6 (Austria/USA); illustrated talks by Oliver Ressler (Austria), PLATFORM (UK), Franko B, Lisl Ponger (Austria), Florian Malzacher/Dictionary of War (Austria/Germany), and Gini Müller (Austria); and a Performance Panel led by Adrian Heathfield (UK) and Lois Weaver (USA/UK) hosting creative interventions by Hubsi Kramar (Austria), Ines Doujak (Austria), Daniel Aschwanden (Austria), Oreet Ashery (UK), Philippe Riera/Superamas (Austria) and Rajni Shah (UK).
In collaboration with Lois Weaver, artistic director of Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights, Performing Rights Vienna will also house The Library of Performing Rights, an ever expanding physical resource and website containing documents and documentation submitted by artists, activists and academics from around the world; and The Long Table, a space where participants and audiences can gather for informal conversations on serious topics.
Performing Rights Vienna has been commissioned by Tanzquartier Vienna and is curated by the Live Art Development Agency, London. Performing Rights Vienna has developed from Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, artists and audiences that took place in London in June 2006 and was produced in a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, East End Collaborations, PSi and the Live Art Development Agency.
Áine Phillips ( Ireland )
Harness
Saturday 10 March. 19.30 and 22.00. Studio
The artist re-enacts experiences of growing up with a profoundly brain damaged brother. This boy is violent and beautiful, harnessed to a wheelchair, helmeted to protect his face from falling in seizures.Twenty years later she gives birth to a daughter with dislocated hips who is strapped into traction for half a year. The artist speaks their embodiments and performs their modes of harness, translating constraint into tenderness, torture into rapture, helplessness into command. She shows the vulnerability of wholeness, the purpose of union in extreme human experience and how the personal becomes political …
Continuing the momentum of June 2006’s Performance Studies international (PSi)#12: Performing Rights, Performing Rights Vienna is a programme of performances, presentations, debates, workshops, screenings and interventions that aims to reflect the relationships between performance and human rights and between art and activism; to illustrate the creative strategies artists are using to effect social, cultural and political change; and to consider the role and responsibilities of artists, and performance itself, in the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights.
Performing Rights Vienna includes a workshop led by John Jordan (UK); a residency by Richard Dedomenici (UK); performances by Franko B (UK/Italy), Curious (UK), Robin Deacon (UK) and Áine Phillips (Ireland); screenings of historical and contemporary documents by Adrien Sina (France), The Vacuum Cleaner (UK), and Claudia Heu, Jeremy Xido, and Cabula6 (Austria/USA); illustrated talks by Oliver Ressler (Austria), PLATFORM (UK), Franko B, Lisl Ponger (Austria), Florian Malzacher/Dictionary of War (Austria/Germany), and Gini Müller (Austria); and a Performance Panel led by Adrian Heathfield (UK) and Lois Weaver (USA/UK) hosting creative interventions by Hubsi Kramar (Austria), Ines Doujak (Austria), Daniel Aschwanden (Austria), Oreet Ashery (UK), Philippe Riera/Superamas (Austria) and Rajni Shah (UK).
In collaboration with Lois Weaver, artistic director of Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights, Performing Rights Vienna will also house The Library of Performing Rights, an ever expanding physical resource and website containing documents and documentation submitted by artists, activists and academics from around the world; and The Long Table, a space where participants and audiences can gather for informal conversations on serious topics.
Performing Rights Vienna has been commissioned by Tanzquartier Vienna and is curated by the Live Art Development Agency, London. Performing Rights Vienna has developed from Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, artists and audiences that took place in London in June 2006 and was produced in a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, East End Collaborations, PSi and the Live Art Development Agency.
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