One month of experimental work
h an d e l n (hybrid)
40 years International Performance Art Archive
DIE SCHWARZE LADE | BLACK KIT
30 September 2021 – 30 October 2021, Cologne
The KONZIL was based on lived artistic encounters and proximity. A hybrid performance festival will bring together performers, artists, and theorists to "1 Month of Experimental Work" in October 2021. In 1979, the performance artist Boris Nieslony invited colleagues to the small exhibition space of the Künstlerhaus Hamburg. It was the precedent of the KONZIL and laid the foundations for the Stuttgart gathering in 1981. Artists came to Hamburg and reflected in 30 days on h an de ln – how to "act" – as an artist and as a human.
In discussions, performances and talks, dimensions of h an de ln will be debated, explored, tested, denied as well as acted upon; open-ended. h an de ln in the field of performance art is a huge field, historically as well as theoretically. However, October 2021 is less about tracing the excesses of the verb. Rather, the concern is to take up the question of what "to act" currently means, is, should be, from the present and in distinction to what has been. When is the time for action and when is the time for refusal? How does the medial transmission or documentation of an action affect it? What rhythm does action require, what warmth, what atmosphere? When is action experienced as valuable, how is it to be acted in the present? In art, in systems, in collectives, in private as well as in public?
Das Archiv wird aus seinen Beständen Recherchematerial bereitstellen. Screenings, Vorträge, Talks komplementieren das 1-monatige, hybride Programm. Was dabei entsteht oder nicht entsteht, werden die Begegnung zeigen.