Marlies Surtmann

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Austria (residence) °1979
research interests: performance, archive, künstlerisch-performative Erschließung, public space, participatory arts, performance archive, artistic performative transmission strategies
affiliation: artist, phd candidate, cultural worker
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MARLIES SURTMANN lives and works in Vienna, where she is active in the fields of art, art studies and artistic research. In her work, she focuses on investigating the relationship between body, space, society and art, as well as questions of participation, exchange and collaboration as central elements of performative art. In her PhD-project at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna she investigates the archiving of performance practices through artistic performative transmission strategies. She was research assistant at the Center for Museum Collection Management at University for Continuing Education Krems, funded by GFF Niederösterreich (2019–2021). Together with Olivia Jaques, Surtmann founded the performance platform Performatorium. Within this framework they create artistic performative encounters (2017-). Further they have been invited to the Research Affiliation Program of Tanzquartier Wien (03–06 2022). Surtmann has also conducted curatorial and mediatory projects at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich (2016-2018) and with the artist-curator collective Friday Exit (2012-2017).

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  • Archives in Practice (last edited: 2024) author(s): O. Jaques, C. Ruth, M. Surtmann This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Who or what carries, develops and transmits knowledge when it comes to performance and socially engaged art? An institution? An archive? A body? A collective body? A teacher? A website? A hard-drive? A box? ARCHIVES IN PRACTICE investigates methods for how to better include intersubjective and embodied knowledge inside archival practice. The research is especially devoted to socially engaged performance art whose participatory and often delicate practice is difficult to document. The methods of performative archiving will be based on two case studies in collaboration with APL - Angewandte Performance Laboratory and Raw Matters. Rather than a well organised storage we imagine the archive as a vibrant memory field. A place where concentrates (Konzentrate) of practice can be planted and where we activate and also continue the traces and artistic thinking of our peers. The idea of a concentrate has its roots in the three main researchers transdisciplinary and continuously developing performative archival practices; such as the Scenario Method – whereby past events can be artistically examined and recreated (Performatorium) and Living Documents – where performing in a loop is explored as a live documentation format (Ruth & Grünbühel). Through a concluding dialogue with archivists the methods of concentrates as a performative archiving practice will be evaluated and its compatibility with traditional archival logics will be tested. The long term aim is to support horizontal and sustainable transmission of knowledge developed within performative practice and explore how institutions and art educations, such as the University of Applied Arts can better include social and embodied knowledge in its ongoing programming and curriculum.
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