U-rss team : Franck Soudan & Marc Veyrat (France)
FFF (duration 60 min)
Watch: 13th May at 10am UTC
DESCRIPTION: FFF is a digital sculpture created in August 2016. It makes the eSPACE that we occupy in the Facebook eSPACE visible. This Facebook eSPACE has been converted to 314 points, with an amplitude of -0.1 to +0.1 for each point. Integrated into the U-rss project, FFF follows on from F-CONNEXION which was itself developed around 3 letters that have traveled around the world using the Facebook network (from each of the participants in the project). In a way, FFF is the complement, the version or mechanical translation.
BIO: U-rss team : Franck Soudan & Marc Veyrat Franck Soudan is an computer artist and researcher in the field of digital arts and humanities. His work focuses on the aesthetic and political stakes of softwares. Creator of interfaces and artist-programmer, he studies algorithms for their actual and conceptual consequences. Marc Veyrat is visual artist and researcher in the field of digital arts and humanities. His work focuses on the aesthetic and political stakes of digital art and social networks as visual super surfaces. He is also lecturer at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and associate researcher in the UNESCO / ITEN chair. Artist Website
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Jazmin Taco (Bern, Switzerland)
My Barbie (duration 30 min)
Watch: 13th May 2017 at 12pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: Tittle: My Barbie Subtitle: Open the Box ritual From March – Juli 2016 I had to make an artist break to deal with the Swiss child care instruction. I had a very hard time fighting with these Swiss organisation which finally took my daughter away from me, with the argument that an sexualized artist like my is not able of taking care of a child. My come back as an performance artist was at the 30 of July 2017 with these collaborative piece: Project name: Nude model Country: Switzerland & Germany Date of performance: Samstag, Juli 30, 2016 Joint-Venture Partner: Marcel Goe Place : Cabaret Voltaire Zürich as part of the Manifesta 11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. From these performance my artist partner Dimitris Fotouax made a 3D sculpture. Now I have mixed feeling Wich doesn’t let me to open the box because I associate these work with the hard time I had. Thats why I decided to make an open the box ritual in a very special place for me.
BIO: Originally from Ecuador, I have been based in Switzerland since 2001, where I studied Visual Arts at the F+F School of Art and Design in Zürich, Switzerland. My work engages with issues around cultural identity and notions of the body beautiful, and often draws from my own culturally divided background between Switzerland and Ecuador. Through performance, installation and objects, I explore the often paradoxical perceptions of my own body as a (hyper-sexualized) woman, foreigner and migrant. Key themes of recent work have been the role of (my own) lack of German language skills in intercultural exchange, and the perception of normative beauty standards (especially in terms of my own plastic surgery-modified body) in relation to notions of national identity. Artist Website
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Carali McCall (London, UK)
Work no. 1 (Circle Drawing) Online Performance, 2017 (duration 90 min)
Watch: 13th May 2017 at 1:30 pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: Approaching the body as a tool, I embrace the idea that the artist is not only physically present in the act of drawing but also brings an experience to the work that exceeds the object of art (be it through the body in live performance, video or sound recording, or photograph). Following the trajectory of art practices that consider drawing and performance a conceptual, temporal and liminal process for negotiation or change; I consider drawing to be a cognitive process, an act of thinking through the body, and seek ways to test and explore physical limits. My artwork and research proposes that drawing is not only connected to movement but can be located in a larger inquiry into the performative nature of human activity. For the online live performance: Using a stick of graphite on large paper, as a live online performance, I will draw circles the diameter of my arm, between 1hr – 2hrs continuously. Due to the speed and effort and pressures of drawing, every performance presents a different result. The fragility of the paper sometimes rips in the paper emerge, or the skin on my knuckle tears and traces of blood are left on the work.
BIO: Carali McCall is a Canadian-born artist based in London UK. Her practice explores movement and the role of the body in drawing. It addresses how duration, expenditure of energy and imposed restrictions on the body can contribute to a greater awareness of what it means to draw.She was awarded her PhD at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UAL and completed her MFA at Slade School of Art, UCL. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include EMPIRE II @ Castello, Venice Italy 2017, Gallery 46 Whitechapel, London, 2016, Folkestone Fringe Triennial 2014, Performance Space, London, 2013 and ‘Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions’ Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 2012. Artist Website
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Katherine Oggier Chanda (Conthey, Switzerland)
Greenhouse effect (duration 15 min)
Watch: 13th May 2017 at 3pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: Greenhouse effect is a video performance that draws inspiration from the discourse that surounds the idea of ecology in today’s contemporary culture. The performance happens in a confined space of transparent inflatable plastic balloon that acts as a metaphor that mimics the much talked about depleting ozone layer. The space engages the performer into a claustrophobic environment in which air is very limited. The space contains small inflated balloons that the performer pops in the process with each movement made within the confined space. It is a space in which the gas carbon dioxide keeps increasing and determines how long the performer remains active in the balloon. It is a process in which the performer is aware of the limitations and is conscious of the physical and mental energy that remaining in this environment demands. The faster the performer moves in the balloon the more energy draining it becomes thus prompting an early exit. The whole performance happens on a lake, which makes mobility extremely difficult.
BIO: Katherine is a Swiss artist working mainly with performance, video and photography. Her work involves the use of gestures, and cultural clichés related to everyday life, nature and urban landscapes as potential ingredients loaded with connotations. With this approach, she has managed to create a working language in which deliberate absurdity, humour and action have become vocabulary she uses to compose her carefully crafted performances. « Privilégiant la performance, la vidéo, l’installation et la photographie, le travail de Katherine Oggier Chanda engendre des actions visant à questionner les clichés culturels. Pour prendre l’ascendant sur nos conditionnements, elle conçoit des interventions éphémères suivant un dispositif systématique composé d’objets du quotidien qu’elle détourne temporairement. Quittant le confinement de son atelier, elle choisit pour décors l’espace public ou la nature, fascinée par les possibilités plastiques qu’ils peuvent lui offrir. Sans modifier l’environnement qui lui sert de cadre scénique, elle installe puis actionne ses accessoires. Sa démarche mobilise avant tout son corps, ses sensations et son intuition pour expérimenter sa relation aux éléments. Privilégiant l’absurdité délibérée et l’humour, ses performances, telles des saynètes ou de courts interludes, dégagent un sentiment de légèreté et d’étonnement joyeux. » Julia Hountou, 2015. Artist Website
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Larysa Bauge (the Hague, Netherlands)
Why do the wrinkles appear… (duration 20 min)
Watch: 13th May 2017 at 5pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: I believe in poetry of aging. It is nothing but accumulation of changes in the human being: physical, psychological, social. Our bodies become complex maps constantly encompassing traces of our choices and circumstances. I want to follow and highlight those traces. I see a web camera as a unique opportunity of bringing a viewer closer than it is acceptable in a normal live performance. I’d like to make a close-up body choreography, exploring the beauty of constantly changing curves, marks, posture possibilities. By this proclaim the beauty of a present moment and constant change. As emphasizing material for this performance I use transparent plastic, water and chalk.
BIO: Larysa Bauge was raised in Belarus and trained as a classical musician (composer/conductor). Since early age she was interested in experimental music and art, composed her own music and performed internationally with multiple ensembles and orchestras. Since 2010 in parallel with her music work she participates in experimental theater Medea73 and different performance groups as an actor. Since 2014 she directs her own music theater performances and creates performance art pieces. Bauge is currently based in the Netherlands. Artist Website
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Gina Ben David (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Walking with white Flag -Women Wage Peace , and flyers Mindfulness for Refugees (duration 30min)
Watch: 13th May at 6pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: I will walk on paves Venice city with a flag ( write on Women Wage Peace Organisation ) and will distribute flayers to the people about project – Mindfulness course at iternet free for refugees in Arabic Languages
BIO: I am performance artist since 2008 , learn and be in ansamble at Miklat Post , with Tamar Raban UNTIL 2014 . Take participe at Croatia festival with Vlasta Delimar at 2011made act- Digging Local Artists in the hole i dig for everyone . Participe at Philipine art exhibition with Jef Carny send fotos from my act for freedom the Israeli Prisioner Gilad Shalit at Hamas Gaza made P[erformance acts with Global Walking Performance Art at Facebook acts- Balance, our weding 44 , walk with Mobius , and the last at 2016 the act-walk barefoot on Galilee sea Beach. Take Part at show in Athene at Cocuyaninse Center , from Jerusalem university theater department , with our show Lisistrata X 2014 , also at Israeli Festival 6/2015. Take Part at Afriperforma Bienalle at Zimbabue by Jelili Atiku , send photos from my act – Refugees I will Take part in a walking Parade with Jelili Atiku at 12/5/17 at opening the Bienalle Venice.
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Navina Neverla (Hamburg, Germany)
I fu** you – you f**k me (duration 3:13 min)
Watch: 13th May 2017 at 7pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: This recent performance improvisation investigates topics around: #somatic #experience #memory #shame #shamelessness #abuse #taboo #guilt #sexual #pain #emotional #relation #self #self-worth #shamanism #healing #health #illness #questions around victimhood #intimacy #limits
BIO: Navina Neverla, born 1984 in Germany, works as an independent performer | contemporary dancer | artist | filmmaker internationally. Navina is interested in conceptual, minimal and experimental art work both in the performance & visual arts. As a contemporary dance & performance artist she has worked amongst others with Vânia Rovisco “Reacting to Time, Portugueses na Performance, Il faut danser Portugal” @ Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra [Circle of Visual Arts Coimbra], in 2016; André Guedes “Die Wiederherstellung des Geistes“ @ Vera Côrtes Art Agency Lisbon, in 2015; Vânia Rovisco “The Wall” @ the ATTIC, Lisbon in 2014; Bojana Cvejic & Christine de Smedt @ TATE Modern, London, UK in 2014; Kvata Mbiti “Body Sculptures“ @ BasseDance Performing Arts onto the Dancefloor, @ Mojo Club Hamburg, Germany in 2013; God’s Entertainment “Vienna’s Next Top Artist” @ Brut, Vienna in 2013; 2012 Isabelle Schad | Tanzinitive Hamburg “Hinter den Gärten“ @ site-specific in 2012; and many more. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Creative Practice: The Dance Professional Practice Pathway from Trinity Laban / Independent Dance. London, UK as well as a diploma in Visual Communication from HfBK -Academy of fine Arts Hamburg, Germany. Additionally, she has exhibited her work internationally amongst others at the following venues: DanceKiosk Hamburg 48 hours Nomads 2017, DanceKiosk 2012, Galeria Bessa Artes Lisbon, K3 Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios London, Site-Specific London, Kampnagel as well as other Visual Art contexts and Filmfestivals internationally. She has received funding from Hamburg’s ministry of culture Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Rudolf-Augstein Stiftung Hamburg & Larga Marcha Arte y Ediciones Madrid and has sucessfully lead a Crowdfunding Campaign in 2016. Navina has developed her work in the context of residencies at Fleetstreet Theatre Hamburg, AADK Centro Negra | Espacio de Investigación y Creación Contemporánea [Space for Contemporary Creation & Investigation] Spain & Gängeviertel Hamburg. Artist Website
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Navina Neverla (Hamburg, Germany)
Art worker’s won’t kiss ass (duration 2:28min)
Watch: 13th May 2017 at 7:30pm UTC
DESCRIPTION: Performance Intervention: \”Art workers won\’t kiss ass\” – by Navina Neverla @ Galeria Bessa Artes, Lisbon & DanceKiosk Festival Hamburg 48 hours Nomads, Hamburg in front of Deichtorhallen, Haus der Photographie, Germany. The work deals with the discrepancy between the actual state and the desired state of an artist\’s working condition and the socio-political as well as economic situation artists are exposed to. A seemingly indispensable self-marketing as well as a constant existential struggle for survival. Moreover, the socially constructed borders between inside & outside, private and public, between the artist\’s body and the art market are questioned. The intervention can be seen as a historical reference to a performance of the Art Workers Coalition, 1969, by the artist Poppy Johnson. The aim of the conceptual-minimalist work of the AWC, was the institutional criticism of galleries, museums and institutions of the art market. What has changed since 1969, what has remained the same?
BIO: Navina Neverla, born 1984 in Germany, works as an independent performer | contemporary dancer | artist | filmmaker internationally. Navina is interested in conceptual, minimal and experimental art work both in the performance & visual arts. As a contemporary dance & performance artist she has worked amongst others with Vânia Rovisco “Reacting to Time, Portugueses na Performance, Il faut danser Portugal” @ Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra [Circle of Visual Arts Coimbra], in 2016; André Guedes “Die Wiederherstellung des Geistes“ @ Vera Côrtes Art Agency Lisbon, in 2015; Vânia Rovisco “The Wall” @ the ATTIC, Lisbon in 2014; Bojana Cvejic & Christine de Smedt @ TATE Modern, London, UK in 2014; Kvata Mbiti “Body Sculptures“ @ BasseDance Performing Arts onto the Dancefloor, @ Mojo Club Hamburg, Germany in 2013; God’s Entertainment “Vienna’s Next Top Artist” @ Brut, Vienna in 2013; 2012 Isabelle Schad | Tanzinitive Hamburg “Hinter den Gärten“ @ site-specific in 2012; and many more. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Creative Practice: The Dance Professional Practice Pathway from Trinity Laban / Independent Dance. London, UK as well as a diploma in Visual Communication from HfBK -Academy of fine Arts Hamburg, Germany. Additionally, she has exhibited her work internationally amongst others at the following venues: DanceKiosk Hamburg 48 hours Nomads 2017, DanceKiosk 2012, Galeria Bessa Artes Lisbon, K3 Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios London, Site-Specific London, Kampnagel as well as other Visual Art contexts and Filmfestivals internationally. She has received funding from Hamburg’s ministry of culture Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Rudolf-Augstein Stiftung Hamburg & Larga Marcha Arte y Ediciones Madrid and has sucessfully lead a Crowdfunding Campaign in 2016. Navina has developed her work in the context of residencies at Fleetstreet Theatre Hamburg, AADK Centro Negra | Espacio de Investigación y Creación Contemporánea [Space for Contemporary Creation & Investigation] Spain & Gängeviertel Hamburg. Artist Website http://www.navinaneverla.com/
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