Performing Rights Vienna
8 - 10 March 2007
The Live Art Development Agency have been commissioned by Tanzquartier, Vienna to create a Live Art programme for March 2007. Building on the strengths and continuing the momentum of Performance Studies international (PSi)#12: Performing Rights, the Agency have curated Performing Rights Vienna.
Introduction
Performing Rights Vienna is a programme of performances, presentations, debates, workshops, screenings and interventions that sets out to reflect the relationships between performance and human rights and between art and activism; to illustrate the creative strategies artists are using to effect social, cultural and political change; and to consider the role and responsibilities of artists, and performance itself, in the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights.
Performing Rights Vienna includes a workshop for artists and activists led by John Jordan (UK); a residency by Richard Dedomenici (UK); performances by Franko B (UK/Italy), Curious (UK), Robin Deacon (UK) and Áine Phillips (Ireland); and screenings of historical and contemporary documents by Adrien Sina (France), The Vacuum Cleaner (UK), and Claudia Heu, Jeremy Xido, and Cabula6 (Austria/USA). As many artistic practices that are concerned with these issues are taking place on the frontline or within community contexts, Performing Rights Vienna will also feature talks, dialogues and presentations that attempt to represent some of the creative approaches and artistic projects artists are engaging with. There will be illustrated talks by Oliver Ressler (Austria), PLATFORM (UK), Franko B, Lisl Ponger (Austria), Florian Malzacher/Dictionary of War (Austria/Germany), and Gini Müller (Austria); and a Performance Panel led by Adrian Heathfield (UK) and Lois Weaver (USA/UK) hosting creative interventions by the artists Hubsi Kramar (Austria), Ines Doujak (Austria), Daniel Aschwanden (Austria), Oreet Ashery (UK), Philippe Riera/Superamas (Austria) and Rajni Shah (UK).
In collaboration with Lois Weaver, artistic director of Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights, Performing Rights Vienna will also house The Library of Performing Rights, an ever expanding physical resource and website containing documents and documentation submitted by artists, activists and academics from around the world; and The Long Table, a space where participants and audiences can gather for informal conversations on serious topics.
Performing Rights Vienna is curated by the Live Art Development Agency, London. Performing Rights Vienna has developed from Performance Studies international #12: Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, artists and audiences that took place in London in June 2006 and was produced in a collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, East End Collaborations, PSi and the Live Art Development Agency.
