a new
reenactment in the frame of the platform RE:akt!
EVA AND
FRANCO MATTES aka
0100101110101101.
Synthetic
Performances
Curated by
Benjamin Weil
PERFORMA07, biennial of visual art
performance
Artists Space,
New York
November 13,
2007 at 7pm NY time (GMT -5)
+
in Second Life
at Odyssey at 4 PM (Second Life
time)
Produced with
the support of Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana.
About the
project
------------
Synthetic
Performances is a series of historical performative reenactments that take place
in virtual worlds and videogames. This ongoing project, which started in January
2007, includes reenactments of: Chris Burden's Shoot; Vito Acconci's Seedbed;
Valie Export's Tapp und Tastkino, and Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks (in
progress).
For PERFORMA07,
Eva and Franco Mattes will stage a selection of three of their Synthetic
Performances, including the new reenactment
of the performance Imponderabilia by Marina Abramovic and Ulay. The
artists will conduct these performances through avatars, constructed from the
shape and surface of their own bodies, in the online world Second Life. For this
event, people are invited to attend the live performances at Artists Space or to
connect through Second Life from anywhere in the
world.
"Eva and
I - declared Franco
Mattes - we hate performance art, we never
quite got the point. So, we wanted to understand what made it so un-interesting
to us, and reenacting these performances was the best way to figure it out. We
have always been very attracted by things we don't like: Nike, the Vatican or
Hollywood crap movies."
About the
authors
------------
Eva and
Franco Mattes
are internationally recognized as supreme interventionists. Most of their
projects involve different forms of media hacking and bogus culture trafficking.
In one instance, the duo temporarily hijacked the Nike logo for a public
installation in Vienna; in another, they created an entirely fictional artist,
only to murder him once he was sufficiently
famous.
About the
platform RE:akt!
------------
RE:akt! - meaning not only "to act
again" but "to respond to/react upon" and "Regarding: act!"- confronts current
ideological and intellectual canons, power structures, policies, and
distribution channels by re-enacting selected historical events. Through
processes of analysis, deconstruction, re-enactment and (re-)reporting, the
intermedia research and presentation project RE:akt! examine's media's role(s)
in manipulating perceptions and creating (post)modern historical myths and
contemporary mythology.
RE:akt! is
supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the
Municipality of Ljubljana and the European Cultural
Foundation.
Contact:
Aksioma -
Institute for Contemporary Art
Neubergerjeva
25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386
(0)591-90876
GSM: +386 41 250
830
Skype:
aksioma4
E-mail:
aksioma4@siol.
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