TWO BODIES IN SPACE | DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE: The Quest for Authenticity in the VestAndPage Experience
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
Andrea Pagnes, from the performance art duo VestAndPage, presents a reflective piece that will become essential reading for anyone interested in durational and related performance practice. The particular focus on research concentrates the importance of the insights in this piece. Pagnes demonstrates the use of performance as a form of personal expression that leads to a greater capacity for sensitive interpretation and understanding.
—Ross Woodrow, Executive Editor Studio Research Journal
In Conversation with Ron Athey
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
This recent conversation I have had with Ron Athey, one of the most outstanding ground-breaking performance artists of our times, has been made exclusively for LADA (Live Art Development Agency, UK) on early 2015. The agency, on behalf of its director Lois Keidan, is pleased to make it available for Research Catalogue members and readers.
The dialogue includes a discussion around the issues and concerns of contemporary Performance Art as well as an in-depth focus on the work of Ron Athey, past and present. With additional notes by Lisa Newman, a photo selection from the archive of the artist and Manuel Vason's, and Athey's "Devine's Funeral" monologue, originated from Jean Genet's novel "Our Lady of the Flowers".
Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis, and fortitude in the time of AIDS, Athey provides insights and calls into question the limits of artistic practice and research. These limits enable Athey to explore key themes including gender, sexuality, radical sex, queer activism, post-punk and industrial culture, tattooing and body modification, ritual, philosophy, literature, creative-automatic writings, spirituality and religion. The first monograph on his work, "Pleading in the Blood", edited by Dominic Johnson, is published by LADA and Intellect Books in their Intellect Live series.
Trans*Writing Immanence and Transformation Towards a Political, Ethical and Aesthetical Theory of Writing as Artistic Research
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Elisabeth Schäfer
connected to: University of Applied Arts Vienna
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
How can writing as an entangling practice of “artistic research” contribute to an understanding of these processes?
Can the figure of “Trans” as prefix (see method and title of the project: “Trans*Writing”), which is addressing the movement of crossing, be promoted as new thinking pattern for a writing that has the immanent tendency to exceed meanings, bodies, subjects, settings, knowledge, lives, spaces etc.?
