Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Istvan Kovas

On Saturday March 25 @11:15am ct | 17:15 ect we are thrilled to begin the Spring Artist Focus with a live conversation with Yvette Teeuwen form The Hague, Netherlands and Carron Little, organizer of Out of Site.

About Yvette Teeuwen
My name is Yvette Teeuwen (1975) from Delft in The Netherlands. I live and work as visual artist & art performer in cultural sea-city The Hague, a short hour from Amsterdam. I studied at The Hague’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Mixed Media; 1997-2001). Besides I am a museum-teacher at Art Museum The Hague since 2007.
I followed several performance-workshops for example from performer Johannes Deimling (Performance Art Studies, Germany (2019, 2020,2021,2022), from Dimple B Shah (India) and Kirsten Heshusius (The Netherlands) during Online Symposium Flow, Out of site_Chicago (2021), from duo VestAndPage (Germany) & Marilyn Arsem (US) during International event ID from Performance Site, The Hague (2019) and musician Wade Matthews (US/Spain) (2023).
Exhibitions in The Netherlands: The Hague, Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Rotterdam and many more. Abroad: Valencia, Spain (2023), Kassel/Germany (2022), India & U.S. (2022), Chili & Brazil & Bolivia & Argentina & Mexico &India & Colombia & Belgium (2021), India & Mexico & U.S. & Chili & Germany (2020).

Artist Website: www.yveteeuwen.nl

Facilitated by Martine Viale
Phot credit Denys Blacker

On Saturday April 8 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect Martine will be in conversation with Denys Blacker sharing this recorded interview from her garden in Girona, Spain. Denys Blacker has organized the FEM gatherings since 2001 and works with several ensembles in addition to creating solo work.

About Denys Blacker
Denys Blacker is a visual artist whose practice spans performance art, drawing, sculpture and video. She recently completed a funded PhD titled Interconnection, Synchronicity and Consciousness in Improvised Performance Art Practices at Northumbria University in Newcastle. In 2002, she co-founded Gresol, a non-profit making cultural association and since then, she has organised over 20 international Performance art festivals in Girona and Barcelona, including FEM, an annual festival showcasing the work of women performance artists, now in its 16th edition. She is a founding member of the all-women performance group Ocells al Cap (Birds in the Head) and a member of the International performance group Wolf in the Winter. She is co-founder of the EU funded project ELAA (European Live Art Archive) based in the University of Girona. She also initiated and coordinates Corpologia, a performance artist collective and a magazine of the same name. She regularly collaborates with other organisations and institutions to programme performance art and live art events including; Cara a Cara – an ongoing programme of interviews and residencies, that promotes works by women, at la Bonne, Women’s Cultural Centre in Barcelona, the Cicle d’Art d’Acció at Bòlit, Contemporary Art Centre in Girona and FLARE (Forum for Live Art Research and Education) at the University of Northumbria (UK).

Artist Website: http://denysblacker.com/

Facilitated by Martine Viale
Photo by Gerald Harringer

On Saturday April 15 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect

About Boris Nieslony
He develops and shows the languages ​​of the body, the body, the gestures, the images, the actions and materials.

Boris Nieslony has dedicated his life’s work to developing greater understanding of the philosophical, ethical, social, historical revolutionary and insurrectionary implications of performance art and to disseminating these findings as broadly as possible. He is a tireless and inspiring advocate of the art of performance living, lying in the encounter of meeting. he advocates the practice through organising and attending many artists’ meetings internationally, publishing his and others’ theoretical texts, archiving work and creating performance, photography and installation works that forcibly confront an existential unease and an alchemical, visual poetry.

Artist Website: https://elaa.cat/en/boris-nieslony/

Facilitated by Dimple B Shah
Photo by Rahul Giri

On Saturday April 22 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we are thrilled to present the expansive performance art practice of Dorothea Rust who is based in Zug, Switzerland. This live broadcast will be facilitated by Dimple B Shah who has been participating in Performance Art Festivals with Dorothea in India and European continent.

About Dorothea Rust
Dorothea Rust studies in postmodern dance in New York, visual arts and cultural / gender studies in Zurich (ZHdK). From 1983 to 1991 she collaborated and performed in New York with dance artists, choreographers and musicians.
She is internationally active in translocal contexts with performances, interventions and lecture-performances, as a guest lecturer, mentor, co-initiator of platforms and networks for performative practices, focusing on the multi-layered curatorial and reflective aspects of Performance (and the) Arts, in collaboration with artists, curators, theoreticians and music groups: SYMPODIUM What’s Wrong with Performance Art? (2017) / LEGS performance relay (2016 ), ACT Sierre/Lucerne performance festival, platform for art students at swiss art academies (2011—2017) / DER LÄNGSTE TAG / THE LONGEST DAY, 16 hours nonstop outdoor performances in Zürich (since 2004 in irregular intervals) / GNOM groupe for new music baden (2009–2015) / stromereien biennial Performance Festival Zurich (2010/2011) / Delhi Workshop and Performance Day 2013 and others.
She is also a co-founding-member of PANCH Performance Art Network Switzerland. She does research in ‚Somatics and Performance\Art’ in her artistic practice and in text works on dance and performance: contributions to publications such as «Floating Gaps – Performance Chronik Basel (1968-1986), Formen der Wissensgenerierung – Practices in Performance Art’. Awards, grants and contributions for residencies.

Artist Website: https://www.dorothearust.ch/

Facilitated by ieke Trinks
Photo by Chris Ryan

On Saturday May 6 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we are delighted to present the performance art practice of Julie Vulcan who lives in the rural part of Australia outside Sydney. Due to time zone differences this broadcast will be recorded. In preparation for this conversation we have had fascinating conversations with Julie about her current research into darkness.

About Julie Vulcan
Julie Vulcan is an Australian artist, researcher and writer working across performance, installation, and digital media forms. She is mainly known for her durational performances engaging a choreography of repetition. Her works have been presented internationally with I Stand In: A Ritual for the Forgotten, Misplaced, Unrecovered and Removed being one of her most traveled performances (presented at Spill Festival, UK 2013; Performatorium, Canada 2014; 2nd Venice Performance Art Week: Ritual Body – Political Body, Italy 2014; Deathfest, Australia 2016; Taking Place, Canada 2017). A recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Cultural Leadership grant in 2012 she undertook research trips in 2013 and 2014 to visit performance artists and events in UK, Cambodia, Italy, Germany, Sweden and the US. On return she founded and helped facilitate the performance art practice and research platform base-metal. Underlying many of her performance works is an interest in the veracity of mediated memory and the influences and/or motivations behind how we remember, record and re-write our actions, bodies and traces. In 2020 after a bushfire swept through her home-place, followed swiftly by the pandemic, Julie considered more deeply the performance of her body being performed by her surroundings rather than for an audience. In 2021, a year after the Black Summer fires, Julie temporarily transported ash from her home to perform Rescript, a four hour ritual in honour of the loss of non-human lives and new beginnings.
Artist Website: www.julievulcan.net
Facebook Group: base-metal

Facilitated by Caron Little
Photo by Michael Callaghan

On Saturday May 20 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we are delighted to present the performance art practice of Keike Twisselmann who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her research practice explores somatic practices along with a deep investment into current affairs and the politics of our times.

About Keike Twisselmann
Born in Berlin 1967. She was unconditionally admitted to study fine art at the University of Ulster Belfast in 1989, completing her studies 1992 with the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) and 1996 with the Master of Fine Art. In-between, she studied philosophy, English literature, politics and law out of interest.

She was one of the founding members of Catalyst Arts Belfast, a group of international artists who created their own space for their political, social, and experimental art in the center of Belfast.

At her studio flat in a deconsecrated church right at the frontier of the Northern Irish conflict, she organized Belfast’s first art cinema and founded the “provisional German embassy” which gave shelter and protection to anyone and everyone without prejudice. Her public performances are part of the northern Irish “Troubles Archive” by the Ulster Museum in Belfast. She moved back to Berlin in 2000, where she worked in the chair committee of the BBK Berlin (2003-2014).

The focus of her artistic work lies on performance and painting with exhibitions and invitations to festivals around the world…such as:
Venice, Kassel/Documenta, Cologne, Dessau/Bauhaus, New York, Belfast, Berlin, London, Scarborough, Transylvania, Derry, Hanover, Sheffield, Cleveland, Glasgow, Werkleitz, Dublin, Kilkenny, Galway, Cork, Barcelona, Cardiff, Québec, Kiel, Kleve, Leipzig, Madrid, … to name but a few.

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Sarah Risebrough

On Saturday May 27 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect Carron Little was in conversation with James King about his public performance art takeovers working through the Troubles in Belfast and Derry in N.Ireland to the present time. He works collaboratively with many artists in public space and has had a long-term collaboration with Eamonn O’Donnell creating public interventions over three decades. James King was a workshop facilitator at Flow 2021 where we learnt to fuse poetics, vocality with public performance actions. The humor evoked in his work through poetry and performance art is a important element in his practice. Please note we decided to create a Part 2 that was recorded on May 31, 2023 and can be listened to here: Artist Focus with James King Part 2

About James King
James King has lived in Derry for forty years. Since retiring as Course Director for the Certificate in Community Drama at the University of Ulster in 2004, King has developed his career as a performance artist and sound poet, and maintained his work with vulnerable groups in the community until the time of the Covid pandemic.

He has practiced performance in a variety of genres for over forty-five years and lectured in community drama for thirty. Over the last fifteen years, King has expanded his performance practice, ranging from short, open word-play entertainments to extensive events. More recently, he has also incorporated sound poetry and vocal improvisation into his performances. King’s work is organic, spontaneous and site-specific. In his work he interrogates and expresses how he is in the world. His respect for intuitive spontaneity is an invitation to others to question, challenge and freely respond to self, others, and prevailing circumstances.

King associated with the Bbeyond Belfast performance art collective in May 2005, during the In Place of Passing performance bus tour. Since then he has been an enthusiastic participant in Bbeyond’s monthly collective improvisations.

In 2016, in collaboration with Bbeyond, King organized the Cumulator project. This involved performance artists from several countries and took place in outdoor venues, studios and galleries in Ireland, England, Belgium and Germany. The project began with one artist performing for one hour in January, and cumulated with twelve artists performing for twelve hours in December.

Through Bbeyond King was invited to Bergen in 2010, the Spanish Bel-Mad exchange in 2013 and the German-Belgian Bel-Esse exchange in 2014, as well as AcciónMad Madrid in 2016. More recently, in 2022, he participated in the Black Kit Open the Door a Window project in Cologne.

Consistently King performs on the streets of Derry and other public spaces, with his shamanic partner Eamonn O’Donnell, and the Bbeyond colony BBDB.
With Peter O’Doherty, King has formed a mutually-enriching working relationship that focuses on text-based and vocal explorations. From intuitive abstract sounds, King finds phonemes, syllables and words that are reconstructed into performance poems.

In December 2021, King and poet Ann McKay published “Parley Palaver (Distillations and Reasonings)”. In this book McKay responds to King’s gibberish writings by making sense of the closing lines of each poem and the accompanying charcoal illustrations. In 2022 and 2023 King produced three more books of writings and drawings: “ Fun With Words”; “From Palimpsest to Sillybling”; and “Ticlish All Sorts” (cover illustration by Carron Little).

Other publications include: “Action: an Introductory Drama Manual” with Terence Zeeman, 2001; “Moving Pitches”, 2008; “Furrowed Lives” with David Hegarty, 2012; “Thoughts” with Sandra Corrigan Breathnach, 2017; and “Swims Diary”, 2021; “ Words, Presence, Traces”, James King and Peter O’ Doherty, November 21.

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Ryan Buchanan

For the last Artist Focus of Spring 2023 we will be in conversation with Janice Parker who lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. While attending Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year I really had to search for any public performance art. In this journey I was delighted to discover a durational performance happening along the Union Canal by Janice Parker. We will talk more about this exciting project and her living practice of public performance art.

About Janice Parker
Janice Parker Is an artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. working locally and further afield. She creates across disciplines, media and art-forms rooted in her primary practice of movement and dance. Collaborating with people, place and context she is known for forging partnerships outwith the dance mainstream, and for questioning the notion of who can dance and what dance can be. Janice has developed a vast body of work in her 40 years of practice – live, performance, film, text and installation, and believes in art as an act of quiet, or noisy, activism that proposes and supports possibilities for positive personal, social and cultural change and how we might live together.

Most recently her work is in collaboration with the land, in particular green-space within the city that she lives. Her outdoor daily live practice, which draws on sociologist Richard Sennett’s thinking around how the sense of the body enters the built environment, is a quiet act of resistance to the gentrification and commodification of our public and civic spaces and places, and to our whose and what movement we value. It also connects the artist to the outside of things, to the human and non-human life of the outdoors, providing a sense of sanctuary and belonging.

www.janiceparker.co.uk

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Rob Nienburg

On Saturday October 8 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we are thrilled to begin the Fall Artist live from Lucerne, Switzerland in conversation with Claudia Bucher who has a life long practice of working in outdoor spaces with natural materials.

About Claudia Bucher
Claudia Bucher (*1971) is a Swiss artist with focus on Performance Art, Installation, Printmaking and Drawing. She studied Sculpture at the City & Guilds of London Art School (’96-’98) and Fine Arts at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (’98-’01). She lives and works with her US-American partner, the photographer Rob Nienburg, and their two teenage children in Lucerne, central Switzerland. Claudia Bucher has been practicing Performance Art for over twenty years and shows her work nationally and internationally (e.g. Centre Carme de Cultura Contemporània de València, Fábrica de Arte Cubano Havana, RIAP Performance Festival Québec, FADO Performance Art Centre Toronto, BLV Performart CV Bilbao, Blow!8 Performance Art Festival Ilsede Germany, International Performance Art Giswil Switzerland, Cultural Center Chicago, Kunstmuseum Luzern, International Art Symposium Sternberg Czech Republic, GeorgScholzHaus Kunstforum Waldkirch Germany, Galeria Klatka Cieszyn Poland, etc).
In addition to her solo work, Claudia Bucher is often involved in inter-medium projects and collaboration with artists from various artistic backgrounds. She formally teaches art and leads workshops at home and abroad.

Artist Website: www.claudiabucher.com

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Jürgen Fritz

On Saturday October 15 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we will be in conversation with Dominik Lipp who is also a curator of Forward public performance festival in Lenzburg, Switzerland. Dominik’s work is in conversation with the everyday using building materials, to everyday objects.

About Dominik Lipp
Dominik Lipp has his roots in a broad tradition of performance art where body and mind are constantly challanged. He is active as a painter and performance artist in the Swiss town Rupperswil/ Switzerland, nationally and internationally. In the years 2000-2006 he studied fine arts at Lucerne Scool of Art & Design. The encounter between fine arts and performance art has merged into a visual and physical expression. Lipp embodies a certain sensability to natural materials and textures, which leads to an almost romantic conception. Since more than 20 Years he is as professional Performance artist and Visual Artist on the Road around the World- Italy, Finland, Sveden, France, England, Germany, Turkey, Thailand etc. at Festivals and Exhibition programs.
From 2011-2019 he was the curator and producer of FORWARD! The int. Performance Art Festival, Lenzburg / Switzerland. Since 2013 he is Curator of «The Gathering – Die Zusammenkunft», with Gisela Hochuli. Since 2014 he is Member of PANCH (Performance Art Network Switzerland).

Artist Website: www.dominiklipp.ch
What i do can be art

Facilitated by ieke Trinks
Photo by Sarthak Khurana

On Saturday October 22 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect ieke Trinks will be in conversation with Ajay Sharma about his outdoor public performance practice. This artist responds to site in unique ways using natural materials.

About B. Ajay Sharma
Sharma is a visual artist & curator and researcher who formally studied painting. However, his works cover a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, video, install-action, performance, conventional, revived techniques of photography, and durational, site-specific installations. His artistic inquiry seeks to understand the performance practices, documentation, and individual, collaborative practices with performance. He explores space, portrayed as a metaphorical and hypothetical ground in performative action, installation and observation of T i m e P a r a d o x , D e a t h a n d transformation of Body and space, the historicity of place, action, and objects in Install-action. Born in 1986 in Deoghar, Jharkhand,B. Ajay Sharma studied art at the Faculty of Visual Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (BFA in painting in 2007) and later earned his MFA in Painting from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 2009. Ajay co-founded In-process with artists Jihyoung Park (India) and Yuzuru Maede (Japan) in 2018. Currently, he is teaching as an Assistant professor in the Department of Fine Arts, Chitkara Design School, Chitkara University, Punjab.

Facilitated by Beau Coleman
Photo by Alessia Cargnelli

On Saturday October 29 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we are excited to be in conversation with John G Boehme who was part of the Flow symposium in 2022. John integrates humour into all aspects of his work as he dips into the satirical aspects of institutions, domestic spaces and commercial hardware stores. He is also a curator and has an extensive outdoor public performance practice.

About John G Boehme
John G. Boehme identifies as a cisgender white male of German and Scottish heritage in Victoria, BC, Canada the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking homeland of the Esquimalt, Songhees peoples. His early art practice included painting, sculpture, performance video, digital technology, installation and photography. Boehme describes recent work as "trans-disciplinary" often employing performance, video, audio and objects in a number pieces simultaneously, Boehme is not constrained to any particular creative mode and therefore utilizes integrated approaches to realize the work. John continues to have exhibitions, screenings and participate in festivals across Canada, Australia, the Americas, United Kingdom, Europe and China. John is an Artist and Educator, teaching Performance Art, Ceramics and Sculpture as a continuing faculty of the Visual Arts Department at Camosun College.

Facilitated by Beau Coleman
Photo by Daisuke Takeya

On Saturday November 5 @11:15am cst | 17:15 ect please note that this broadcast will be one hour earlier for U.K. and European people. We first met Daisuke Takeya at Flow 2021 tuning in from Tokyo, Japan and he signed up to create a public performance on what he said was a sleepy corner of Tokyo. But within minutes the police were there and in our follow-up conversation he said they were doing a care check. In today’s live broadcast from Toronto | tkaronto, Canada we are excited to learn more about his work.

About Daisuke Takeya
Daisuke Takeya’s praxis is comprised of the exploration of nature and plausibility in contemporary society, and hinges on all kinds of double meanings. He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

He participated in performance art festivals such as; full S U N - the far and the central - Open Field, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Performances en pliegue, Montevideo, Uruguay; ZERO PLATFORM, Yangon, Myanmar; undisclosed territory #11, Solo, Indonesia; ECHT JETZT International Performance Art Festival, Germany; Above the Clouds International Live Art Festival, China; SIPAF, Manila, Philippines; Kathmandu International Performance Art Festival, and erected and directed Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting.

Artist Website

Facilitated by ieke Trinks
Photo by James Horan

On Saturday November 12 @11:15am cst | 18:15 ect ieke Trinks will be in conversation with WeiZen Ho who we first met during Flow • embody in site 2021 where she created a durational work sweeping the leaves on her street in Katoomba, Australia with her hair. This live performance occured during the missle of Autumn in Australia and Spring while it was Spring in the western hemisphere.

About WeiZen Ho
WeiZen Ho was born in Melaka, and graduated in Social Sciences from UWA, Perth. Devising and presenting performances since 1999, her practice expanded from music-visual concerts, to solo and participatory works that occupy spaces of uncertainty between performance, ritual and installation. She investigates methods for accessing the memory body through image concept sketching, vocal-bodywork, improvisational techniques and mimicry of spirit possession. Her performances employ accoutrements and imagery that coalesce relationships between body, voice, sound and site.

Since founding music group TUFA, performing across Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Beijing (1999-2004), WeiZen expanded her discipline into spatial-body choreography. Her works include Evaporative Body, Multiplying Body with Alan Schacher for Keir Choreographic Award (2022), Stories from the Body #1-#9 (2014-2022: Indonesia, Malaysia, Setouchi Triennale in Japan, Thailand, Sydney Contemporary, Australia), the subtle beings (Australia 2018) with research undertaken in Sabah and Hanoi, and The Invisibles (360VR film 2020). WeiZen was an AIR in Cementa Festival 2022 to present a social-installation work, Dying -Differently, Possibly. She has also been the artist-curator for cross-disciplinary performance events and residency concepts like SoundBitesBody (2012-2016: properties throughout the Blue Mountains), and Performature :Performateur (2019-2022: Articulate project space, Splinter festival, StSt.ari, 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art).

Artist website: www.weizenho.com

Facilitated by Martine Viale
Photo credit TAMA Festival

On Saturday November 19 @11:15am cst | 18:15 ect we are traveling today to Tel Aviv, Israel to be in conversation with Kineret about her work and practice. Each artist brings a unique process to working in outdoor public contexts and each week we travel to a different cummunity, different culture as we engage different artist and different public sites.

About Kineret Haya Max
A mother, an Israeli performance art artist and a teacher. Her working practice is based on live performance. She creates mini events with internal semiotic, linguistic and human logic.
Kineret has been busy with expanding the understanding of live art and its potential. Her works respond directly to reality and introduce performance as a process, and a junction of actions and interactions within a public situation shared by the audience and the artist.
“ I am here” is the ground where she creates her works from
I = is my identity, the elements that structure and exist in my physical, cultural, social body such as curly lion hair, north African look, a woman, Jewish, mother Etc.
Am = my intention, my imagination, my target.
Here = this place, the history, the architecture, the story of the space and the poetic moment.
Since graduating from the School of Visual Theater in 2007 she joined the Performance art platform and Ensemble 209. This along with exposure to performance art throughout Asia and Europe in which she performed, left a significant imprint on her.
Her works have been exhibited in gallery spaces, public spaces, and theater. Between the years 2016-19 she led performance studies in PAP. Since 2016 she has been a lecturer at Musrara School of Art and Society And lately joined as a lecturer to The school of visual theater. Holds a masters degree in art from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. This year she will be director of the Scratch Orchestra ensemble.

Facilitated by Martine Viale
Photo by Will Mackenzie

On Saturday November 26 @11:15am cst | 18:15 ect Martine Viale will be live broadcasting from Perpignan, France in conversation with karen elaine spencer broadcasting from Montreal, Canada. karen has a long outdoor performance practice and has facilitated workshops and influenced a whole community of practitioners in Montreal and Canada.

About karen elaine spencer
born: year of the silver-fish

early childhood: softly sings make believe songs to crumpled-up tissues in the back seat of the family car

adolescence: runs away from home to study the fine art of forgetfulness

at present: infiltrates government offices, train stations, metros and parks to transmit secret messages. rambles, loiters, rides the metro, listens to dreams.

DESCRIPTION
The walker walks. The walker walks with words. Words inked on brown cardboard. The walker walks with black words inked on brown cardboard. The words on the cardboard are carried on the body of the walker. The inked words call out to an “everybody” and yet the walker is solitary. Turned inwards. The words call outwards to an everybody but the walker is turned inwards, turned inwards in solitude. The words addressed to an everybody are lyrics. Lyrics of a song sung by a singer, a poet, a man. The man’s name is Leonard Cohen but Leonard Cohen did not compose the song in solitude. Leonard Cohen composed the song with the singer and lyricist Sharon Robinson. The lyrics composed call out to our disillusionment, to our grief. The song is not a loveless song. The walker makes a sign of our irreducible collective aloneness. The walker makes a sign of our private and incommunicable grief. The walker makes a sign of our broken and impossible love.
Death is slow. Your death is ever so slow, and yet, you have been pronounced dead for over a year and your body is but bone and ash. They say death is final. It is not. Yours is not one death, but many many many little deaths stretched over time. Maybe, one day, there will be
no more you to die. Should the day of your final death arrive I imagine it will be because, I, in turn, have died.

Artist Website: likewritingwithwater

Facilitated by Dimple B Shah
Photo by Andreas Nink

On Saturday February 26, 2022 at 11:15am Chicago-time Dimple B Shah will be in conversation with Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith who is curator of Lock Unlock Performance Art Project.

Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith graduated from the Royal College of Art London in 2000 (MA) and from Goldsmiths' College in 1996 (BA). 2000-2003 Picker Fellowship Award Kingston University. Art place foundation Germany 2005-2010, organizing international Performance Art Workshops/Residencies, producing international performance art events like transitstation in London 2003, Berlin 2005, Edinburgh 2006 and Copenhagen 2010. 2002 – 2017 Senior Lecturer Kingston University, London specializing in Performance Art, 2017 - 2019 support in Performance Art and Art Practices for people/artists with disabilities and special needs.

Facilitated by ieke Trinks
Photo by Shibata Ayano

On Saturday March 5, 2022 at 11:15am
ieke Trinks will be in conversation with Sakiko Yamaoka as part of the our weekly conversation series with artists about their public performance art practice. Sakiko has a dedicated practice working in public sites.

Sakiko Yamaoka was born in 1961 and is based in Tokyo. She studied oil painting at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. She has engaged in the practice of Performance Art since the 90’s. Since 1997 she has taken part in various performance art festivals around the world, including across Europe and North/South America, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia.

Taking the thought of Performance Art as a fated process and approaching the body as a single place/knot as her base, Sakiko builds a practice extending across event production, moving image, photography and drawing, centering upon the themes of public and private space, sculptured time and the consciousness of bodies.

Facilitated by Anyuta Wiazemsky
Photo by Jamie Gannon

On Saturday March 12 @11:15am CT
ieke Trinks will be sharing the recent project she did last year in Ghent, Belgium curated by Anyuta Wiazemsky.

About ieke Trinks
Netherlands based artist ieke Trinks performs work that often includes the contributions of others in the creation of it. Unscripted Play (Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, USA, 2014), for example, was a collaborative residency with U.S. artist Sarah McKemie, in which the artists initiated improvisational work with high school students, clients from a centre for physical challenges, and residents of a home for the elderly. Designed to invite participation from strangers in public spaces, also include Call for Participants, performed as part of thePlayful Arts Festival (Den Bosch, 2014), and the Meetings, performed as part of Out of Site: unexpected encounters in public space (Chicago, 2013), both in collaboration with U.S. artist Bernard Roddy. Trinks has also worked in the same spirit alone. In Value Products, for example, she selects discarded items on the streets, has them named and valued by people she approaches, and then packages and labels each in order to offer it for sale at market during the event. Markets for this performance have included those provided on the occasion of Anders Sein (Alte Post, Neuss, Germany, 2015), Outside/Inside(Spectacle Island, Boston, 2016) and Whose Museum (Krets gallery, Malmö, 2019). Since 2015 Trinks’ creates works that explore the relation between performance and documentation. Performance Monologues is one of these projects and can be compared to a template for the creation of an oral encyclopaedia. Trinks has been a member of the TRICKSTER performance collective since 2008 and organizes with artist Nina Boas Performance Art Events in the Netherlands. Trinks has been a returning visitor of Chicago. In 2020 she collaborated with artist and director of the performance art gallery Defibrillator Joseph Ravens on a major project called What Remains, featuring an international group of artists responding to Ravens’ collection of performance art objects. Since the first lock-down during the Covid-19 pandemic, the collaboration with artist and director of Out of Site Chicago (OoS) Carron Little has deepened through regular online meetings. Trinks performed in their first online streaming event in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) called the Quarantine Concert Series.

About Anyuta Wiazemsky
Anyuta Wiazemsky Snauwaert (1989, Moscow, RU) is a multimedia artist, photographer and curator. She graduated from Law Academy in Moscow, Russia before deciding to pursue an artistic career. She studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Her works have been shown in Amsterdam (NL), Antwerp (BE), Brussels (BE), Ghent (BE), Hyderabad (IN), Kortrijk (BE), Leuven (BE), Moscow (RU), Murcia (ES), Ostend (BE), Rotterdam (NL), ... Since 2019 she has been a member of the Petit Committee of the Kunstenoverleg Gent. She is interested in the interaction between aesthetic experiences and the banality of everyday life, which emerges all the more when presenting art in unexpected places or vice versa when placing an “ordinary” activity in an art-related context.

Facilitated by Beau Coleman
Title of performance: Absolution , photo by Josh Schwebel

On Saturday March 19, 2022 @11:15am CT
Beau Coleman will be in conversation with Josh Schwebel who currently resides in Canada and Germany.

About Josh Schwebel
Joshua Schwebel (he / him) is a trans artist based between Montreal (Tiohti:áke) and Berlin. Since graduating from NSCAD’s MFA program, Schwebel has become known for practicing a particularly direct form of situation-based institutional critique, undertaken through performances, withdrawals, delegated transactions and imposters. Selected solo exhibitions include Centre Clark (Montreal, 2021), Piloto Pardo (London, 2021), Or Gallery (Vancouver, 2019), Kreuzberg Pavillon (Berlin, 2019), the Fonderie Darling (Montreal, 2018), and Centrum (Berlin, 2017). Schwebel was a participating fellow in the Art by Translation program’s inaugural year (2017), and has held residencies at AiR 351 (Lisbon), Laznia CCA (Gdansk), Le Couvent des Récollets (Paris), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Rupert (Vilnius), The Tadeusz Kantor Foundation (Krakow), Standards (Milan), and WhereWhere (Beijing) among others.

Facilitated by Martine Viale
Photo by Guido Salvini

On Saturday March 26 @11:15am CT Martine Viale will be in conversation with Manuela Macco about her public performance practice. Manuela created a live work with the Art Action Encounter curated by Martine Viale on September 5, 2021 as part of the Out of Site partnership with Experimental Sound Studio.

About Manuela Macco
Manuela Macco was born in Biella, she lives and works in Turin.

Since the late nineties she began to conceive actions based on the use of her body by developing a language that initially can be placed midway between performance art and choreography. From the mid-2000s, she did research mainly on visual art. Currently her work, despite starting from the body, is focusing on the use of different media including photography, video, drawing, installation and performance.

Starting from the training, the constant interplay between artistic production and theoretical reflection characterizes the artist's career by influencing her art projects as well as the curatorial and educational ones. The investigation on the body is central in her research, both as a mean of expression and knowledge, and as a political and cultural fact.
The mechanisms of the creative process, the artist's role in society, the relationship between artists and public, the social construction of identity, the relationship between public and private life, are some of the content explored in her work.

Since 2008 she has held workshops about theory and practice of performance art at various universities, including: ESAAA-école supérieure d’art of Annecy, the Fine Arts Academy of Turin, the University of Turin.
As a curator she created and organized events dedicated to performance art and exhibitions focusing on gender issues. In 2012 she founded the torinoPERFORMANCEART project of which she is still co-director and co-curator. She has participated in numerous international art residency projects, festivals and exhibitions.

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Moon Saris

On Saturday April 02 @11:15am | 6:15pm ECT Carron Little will discuss the poetic symbolism in Kirsten Heshusius’s practice and how she work with materials that have the capacity to transform. Heshusius has a fascinating method of process as she works in public places that she will share.

About Kirsten Heshusius
Kirsten Heshusius (1979, Netherlands) I am primarily formed and trained in the development and implementation of visual performances through my experience with important Dutch companies. The art form that they practice came to be called ‘visual site-specific theater’ and has its roots in the happenings in the sixties and seventies. I describe my work as visual poetry evoking universal ideas about the world and life as such. I use my knowledge and experience to make site-specific performances. In my performances, I go in on the transformation of material in relation to the body to create strong yet minimal visual metaphors. Because the body functions as a mirror, I elicit, through these transformations, memory of emotions. Despite these identifiable elements, within the process, there exists a subconscious layer, an imaginary, metaphysical or poetic given. A large part of any new work is, therefore, intuitive.

 Since 2010, I perform solo and extensively around the world. Among others: Twente biennale PAE (NL); AcciónMAD! (ES); Performance Art Fest (CH); #1 International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cartagena de Indias (CO); Dublin live art festival (IR); This art fair (NL); P.S. in between identities (NL); What remains Dfbrl8r (US).
Also I was a workshop facilitator for 'Flow • embody in site' 2021 online symposium by Out of Site.

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by Brittany Snellen

On Saturday April 9 @11:15am CST | 6:15pm ECT Carron Little will be in conversation with Beau Coleman about her public performance practice and installation work that facilitates deeply meaningful encounters with random members of the public.

About Beau Coleman
Beau Coleman is a Canadian and British interdisciplinary artist and curator from ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Treaty No. 6 Territory, Edmonton, Canada. Her artistic practice includes performance art, interdisciplinary creation, intermedia, site-specific practices, theatre, video and installation. She has received exhibitions widely across North America and Europe, and in Africa, South America, Asia and Oceania.

Recent performances include: Birth of the Decay: a Performance for Dogs, Out of Site Chicago, Chicago, United States (online, 2021); Time Regained, Nieuwstraat Festival, Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2021); Breathe, Art-Mutation, Braunschweig, Germany (online, 2020 - 2021) and Bedurfnisanstalt, Hamburg, Germany (2021), Lost/GAINED, FLOW: Embody, In Site, Out of Site Chicago, Chicago, United States (online, 2021); The Divide, Dy3corpia, About Light Gallery, Edmonton, Canada (2021) and the Lock Unlock Performance Art Project (core artist, multiple performance actions, online, 2020-present).

Beau’s work as an art curator includes and Performances for Urgent Times, SPAR²C, Edmonton, Canada (2021) and the Zero Gravity International Performance Art SUMMIT, Edmonton, Canada (2019). She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of SPAR²C (Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research / Research-Creation), an international research-creation hub located at the University of Alberta, where she is a professor of theatre and performance studies. Beau serves on the Board of Directors of Performance Studies International (PSi).

Facilitated by ieke Trinks
Photo by Akintomide Adesemoye

On Saturday April 16 @11:15am CST | 6:15pm ECT as part of the finale program for the Artist Focus this Spring 2022 we are delighted to present the work of Odun Orimolade. ieke Trinks will facilitate the conversation with Odun who has an trans disciplinary creative practice that includes public performance art. This broadcast will be brought to you live from Nigeria and Netherlands.

About Odun Orimolade
Odun Orimolade PhD is an artist, academic that continues to evolve in an experimental, trans disciplinary approach to her practice, incorporating and exploring different media including performance art. She keeps an open contexture to her approach to creative production and is attracted to the impact on and perception of individuals on issues that spread through a variety of genres. These are attended with a mix of ideologies. Her work recurrently engages possibilities in overlapping realities and the intangible, also the impact of external influences and their reflection on human behavioural tendencies, orientation and interaction. A lot of this is largely introspective with a view to connect on a more individual, generative if not ethereal auspice. Orimolade consistently collaborates and contributes to different art projects and development programmes in exploration and research for creative practice. She lectures at the Yaba College of Technology Lagos, where she currently serves as the Sub-Dean of the School of Art Design and Printing. She also was instrumental in developing the Yaba Art Museum where she functions as curatorial director. She introduced and has coordinated the annual Performance Art Intensive workshops since 2012. Her performance work has been presented in the Museum of Contemporary African and Diasporan Art New York, Bern Performance Art Festival, Switzerland, the Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Art 21 Space Lagos amongst several others. She is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Facilitated by Carron Little
Photo by M.R. Jurkowski

On Saturday April 23 @11:15am ct | 18:15 ect we are having a special extended Artist Focus program with the Ukrainian artist, Yaryna Shumska who is currently based in Lviv. As a community we felt it was critical to listen to artists living in Ukraine to discuss what is the situation for artists on the ground.

About Yaryna Shumska
Yaryna Shumska (Ukraine, 1989) works in a field of performance art, painting, installation, and dance. She explores the concept of human "presence" that provokes changes in the primary significance of places and situations. She is interested in revealing the notion of ambiguity in her works. The main themes are connected to the environment, place, context, and memory: the memory of the objects and their invisible stories.

She is a co-organizer and co-curator of the "School of Performance" (2019) in the framework of the International festival "Days of Art Performance in Lviv". She teaches at the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at the Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAM).

She graduated from LNAM (PhD 2017). She was a grant holder of the "Gaude Polonia" scholarship program of the Minister of Culture of Poland (2013), participant of the art residencies “Catena” (France 2014, Spain 2016, Ukraine 2018), “Espace o25rjj” (France, 2019), participant of the “I-Portunus” program (Creative Europe mobility program, 2019). Yaryna Shumska was shortlisted for the Young Ukrainian Artists Competition “MYXi” (2015), the II Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art of Ukraine (2019). She is an author of solo exhibitions and art projects in Ukraine, Poland, Spain.

She participated in numerous exhibitions, international performance art festivals and events as “Days of performance art in Lviv”, “Carbonarium” (Kyiv), “GalitsiaKult” (Kharkiv), “Ukrainian Cross-section 2016” (Wroclaw, Lviv, Lublin) in Ukraine, “Interactions” (Piotrków Trybunalski) and “Contexts” (Sokolowsko) in Poland, “Malamut” (Ostrava) in the Czech Republic, Symposium “Kilograms of the memory” (PAErsche, Cologne) in Germany, “Rencontre d’Art Performance #5” (Espace o25rjj, Loupian) in France, “ZAZ” International Performance Art Festival (Tel Aviv, Haifa) in Israel, NIPAF'13 International Performance Art Festival (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagano) in Japan, “Foreign WorkForce” Symposium (Bergen) in Norway, “Asiatopia” International Performance Festival (Bangkok, Chiang Mai) in Thailand and International Conference “Art Action 1998-2018” (RiAP, Le Lieu, Quebec) in Canada.

Her recent works were presented in the performance art festivals in Poland “Koło czasu” (Torun), “Transmutacje” (Belchatow), “Zero waste” (Tychy), in the International Art-project “LA NADA” (Talking about nothing) (Buenos Aires, Argentina), “ПЕРФОМАНС symposium” in Lviv and the Art-project “Dialogue” in collaboration with Barbara LeBéguec Friedman in The Korsak Museum of Contemporary Art (Lutsk) and “Dzyga Gallery” (Lviv) in Ukraine.

Facilitated by Carron Little

Artists Beau Coleman, Beate Linne, Surya Tuchler and Yvette Teeuwen got together to discuss their live stream performance art night on October 1, 2021. This was created in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio and was part of the quarantine series.

To listen to the conversation please click on the link and the performance documentation will be coming soon on the YouTube channel.

Facilitated & Translated by Martine Viale

In this open dialogue with artists Emilie Franceschin, Michelle Lacombe, Manuela Macco and Carron Little they explore three questions posed by Martine Viale in response to the live stream performance night on September 5, 2021.