IMG@Performance Project/New York: „Props and Pops/Objects That Could Start Relations“
05.11.2015 | 20:00
Studierende des Fachs Intermediales Gestalten an der Kunstakademie Stuttgart in Kollaboration mit Michael Mahalchik und jungen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus New York:
An encounter of Students of Intermedia Arts, from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany, with young artists from University Settlements Community Centers in Downtown Brooklyn and Downtown Manhattan under the guidance of New York based artist Michael Mahalchick. The participants of the 3-day workshop will present work grown from their engagement with several questions:
Students of Intermedia Arts, from Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany, studying with Discoteca Flaming Star, working in NYC with New York based artist Michael Mahalchick in collaboration with young artists from University Settlement's Community Centers in Downtown Brooklyn and Downtown Manhattan, perform objects that could start relations.
On the occasion of visiting the Performance Biennial Performa 15 and enabling the encounter between 2 groups of young artists we want to engage with several questions: How do objects form us, a performance and/or relations? How can objects be significant to us? How do we imagine the difference in meaning? How do these objects form our gender, class and culture? Do they make us sexy?
Intermedia Arts is a postgraduate program at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Under the direction of Discoteca Flaming Star since 2011, this area of study can be understood as a laboratory site for interactive and intermedia artmaking which explores fields and relationships between visual arts and performing arts in installations and performances. The name itself points to the difficulties of grasping a kind of work that deals with the live moment as an autonomous artistic praxis, not to mention positively defining the necessary tools and methods, gestures and actions, persons and roles, spaces and temporalities.
Discoteca Flaming Star is an interdisciplinary artistic and collaborative performance project since 1998. Discoteca Flaming Star aims to be a mental space that all kinds of artists can enter to experiment with different paths for contemporary aesthetic praxis, searching for its limits and avoiding processes of formalization. The work has been shown at numerous venues including Artists Space for Performa 6, Whitney Museum, The Performance Project for Performa 9, The Kitchen, NYC; MUMOK, Vienna; HKW, n.b.k., Basso, KW in Berlin, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, WHW, Zagreb, Tate Modern, London, De Appel, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam. Since 1998 Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer work as the basis of DFS.
Michael Mahalchick is a New York based artist, born 1972 in Pennsylvania, USA. Michael Mahalchick has exhibited his sculpture internationally at Atelier Cardenas Bellanger in Paris, Kate McGarry in London and in New York at PS1 and the The Sculpture Center. In addition to his sculpture practice, he choreographs dance, performs and produces sound and video art. He has performed internationally with Discoteca Flaming Star at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen and Tate Modern. The artist received a MFA from California Institute of the Arts and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In 2010 he and Luciana Achugar received the Bessie Award for their collaboration Puro Deseo.
Alison Fleminger is the founding Program Curator of The Performance Project @ University Settlement and the Artistic Director of The Play Tank Theater Ensemble. She has nearly twenty years of experience designing and implementing arts programming for organizations and artists of all ages. She has worked at The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, Manhattan Youth, and Project Reach Youth. She has directed more than 15 original productions with non-professional performers. Her work as a teaching artist for Arts Connections federal research project DELLTA (Developing English Language Literacy through the Arts) was featured on ABC News. While earning her Graduate Degree in Theater Education from NYU, she apprenticed at the CAT Youth Theater. Most recently she earned a Certificate of Organizational Design from The Empowerment Institute for Social Change.
Students Intermedia Arts: Anna Bone, Justyna Marta Giermakowska, Sabrina Karl, Carla Montenegro Hörder, Moritz Morath, Ines Skirde und Mona Zeiler