Hybrid Drawing Dance

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Drawing and dancing in a surprising combination is performed by Yoshinori Kikuzawa, whose artist name is Kick. He writes down a choreography not in a way you would expect it, but in an abstract almost Pollock-like action. However Kick goes beyond the visual artist’s method which is favoring the hands. Almost flying, his feet and tinted stockings draw on the paper which forms the dance floor. His choreography is ink on paper in a combination of Japanese drawing and abstraction, generated by a hybrid dance, which pools streams of traditional Japanese, modern, and post-modern dance as well as street-dance and hip-hop.

You can watch a recent video of the Japanese artist who actually resides at the Gängeviertel in Hamburg at http://vimeo.com/68755030

Vagabonds of Art

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The Capital of Performance Art

The 3rd edition of Month of Performance Art – Berlin ended last weekend. 47 locations presented more than 100 performances: site-specific, durational, indoor or outdoor, talks, workshops, screenings, public encounters and interactions, live acts and other formats and related projects. More than 170 international artists and participants as well as 23 associate curators.

This range of work and the public resonance again qualified Berlin as the world’s capital of performance art. Bloggers kept their readers informed at: www.mpa-blog.tumblr.com Please visit the official website www.mpa-b.org also for media partners and video documentation.

Reader, you have to be aware, that this Month of Performance Art – Berlin is an artist-lead, non-profit initiative of Joel Verwimp, Florian Feigl, Francesca Momana Ciardi, Nathalie Fari, Joern J. Burmester and Associated Curators, providing a platform for individuals, groups and collectives. Spirit and initiative makes it possible and it is not stoppable by the lack of public funding.

 

EXTRAORDINARY ALIENS by Alexa Wilson & Cohotography by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

EXTRAORDINARY ALIENS by Alexa Wilson & Co, photography by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

News of the Wrestling Woman

Coming from Hamburg I meet Alexa Wilson again, which I met at the Schaubude at the Hamburger Dom – an annual fun-fair – in March (–> see article in this blog). In company with Dave Hall and Teresa Peters she showed Extraordinary Aliens, which actually was the final performance of MPA-B. The stage was a screen showing excerpts of a traveler’s video, which documented stereotypes of hippies playing in deserts and on beaches cut with encounters of outsiders leading miserable lives marginalized in cities.

EXTRAORDINARY ALIENS by Alexa Wilson & Co Photography by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

EXTRAORDINARY ALIENS by Alexa Wilson & Co
Photography by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

A plastic-sac containing masks and rudiments which you can find as debris of flea markets was emptied on the floor to provide the performers with costumes, requisites, masks, etc. Elements of dance, theatre, screening, sport, game and disguising communicated feelings like loneliness, desperation and joy and conveyed elements of companionship, solidarity, fighting or tenderness to endure the marginal situation of a traveling performance artist, which nowadays comes close to the situation of vagabonds and players in feudal times when even medical doctors had to perform as healers at markets and fairs to self-promote and practicing their competence and skills.

Crisp Air + Performances

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Do you like to breathe in crisp air + to attend performance art? You should travel to Sokolovsko, a remote health resort located in the mountains between Poland and the Czech Republic. Here the 3rd edition of the International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art will start July 28th 2013. The actual theme is: The Air. Art For Social Purpose. To be seen are performances, action-art, happenings, video screenings, social activities, installations, site-specific works and a symposium On Breathing: Body, Society, Site. Among exhibitions of pioneering Polish performances retrospectives of –>Jerzy Bereś and ULAY will come about. Please find more information on the website: www.sokolowsko.org

Sokolovsko, former sanatorium - now a place for art, photograph by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Sokolovsko, former sanatorium – now a place for art, photograph by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The festival is organized by Fundacja Sztuki Wspolczesnij “In Situ”
(In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation) fundacja@insitu.pl, www.insitu.pl

One of more than 40 artists and groups this year will be Sandra Johnston (UK/IR), who I photographed at Blow! 8 – Festival in Groß-Ilsede in 2012 :

Sara Johnston at Blow! 8, Groß-Ilsede, 2012, photograph by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Sara Johnston at Blow! 8, Groß-Ilsede, 2012, photograph by johnicon, VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn