Performance Art in Museums

Performance vroeger én nu

Wil je meer weten over performance art vóór je het festival Performatik induikt, volg dan onze nieuwe vierdelige cursus What is Performance Art. Over het (on)nut van de containerterm ‘performance’. Over performance vroeger én nu, in de beeldende én de podiumkunsten. In elke les belichten we performance vanuit een andere invalshoek, waarna je een performance ziet (in een theatrale of een museale context) die raakvlakken heeft met de thematiek. Katleen Van Langendonck, programmator van het Kaaitheater en curator van Performatik, en telkens een andere specialist gidsen je door het performance-art-landschap aan de hand van tekst en uitleg en veel beeldmateriaal.

With Elena Filipovic, director Kunsthalle Basel 
Fr 13/03, 18:00>20:00 Kaaistudio's
20:30 - Preview Performatik 2015

Elena Filipovic

Elena Filipovic is currently director of Kunsthalle Basel. She was Senior curator at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels from 2009-2014, where she curated such projects involving performance as the group show The Other Tradition (2010) and the forthcoming Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Work/Travail/Arbeid (2015).

She co-curated the 5th Berlin Biennial (2008) with Adam Szymczyk, including its ambitious performance program, and co-edited The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large-Scale Perennial Exhibitions of Contemporary Art (2010), with Marieke van Hal and Solveig Øvstebø. She has curated a number of traveling retrospectives, including Mark Leckey: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials (2014), Franz Erhard Walther: The Body Decides (2014), Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972, co-curated with Joanna Mytkowska (2011–2012), Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form (2010–2011), and Marcel Duchamp: A Work that is not a Work “of Art” (2008–2009), in addition to organizing solo exhibitions with emerging artists such as Petrit Halilaj, Leigh Ledare, Klara Lidén, Lorna Macintyre, Melvin Moti, Tomo Savic-Gecan, and Tris Vonna-Michell.

She has, since 2007, been tutor of theory/exhibition history at De Appel postgraduate curatorial training program and advisor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her writings have appeared in numerous artists’ catalogues as well as in Afterall, Artforum, frieze, Kaleidoscope, and Mousse.