PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME (SELECTION)
- PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME - JAN 2007, DE APPEL
A discussion about the birds and the bees may involve, according to the artists, "…references to nature and reproduction without actually describing human biology or providing any useful insight." 'The Birds And The Bees' tells of Twinkle's, Seed's, Good's and Ready's clumsy and inept attempts to understand their roles as independent women of the world.
Composed around three acts: 'exposure', 'interpretation' and 'confrontation', they each follow a set of moves that chart various behavioural patterns used to equip oneself in the development from exposed single cell to member of an aggressive collective chain. Read more
Haegue Yang, Storage Piece
Context, history, visibility, object, space: these are all familiar and reoccurring words that structure the vocabulary of art production and reception. They are the 'vessels' waiting for meaning and value, created by artists, recognized and/or assigned as such by writers and beholders. "Woman: Let's take one metal rack here, a product from a company called 'Otto Kind'. They have developed an industrial module rack system. Quite nice I think. You can assemble them together without any additional tools. Visually they look nice, and I believe they do not look pretentious at all. Super nice material, reasonable priced."
By means of a dialogue between a man and a woman, Haegue Yang oscillates between abstract ideas on art and the sheer practice of producing it, rumbling through the dense field where (historical) consciousness and (personal) experience meet, and where one wants to find a voice to speak, a place where one is listened to.
Concept and text by Haegue Yang, performed by Sarah Vanhee and Art-Jan de Vries. Read more
