!!! *** Dû à des ennuis de santé graves, nous sommes désolées de devoir vous annoncer que le workshop et la performance de Jürgen Fritz ne pourront pas avoir lieu. Les présentations du workshop seront aussi annulées ce dimanche 6 juin à 11H. Par ailleurs ce workshop sera proposé plus tard dans l’année.***
Workshop organisé à Charleroi/Danses - La Raffinerie dans le cadre de MOMENTUM - Platform for Performance-Art
Du lundi 31 mai au samedi 5 juin de 9h30 à 17h30 (sauf samedi de 12h00 à 17h30). Dimanche 6 juin : présentation publique à 11h00
Lieux: Charleroi/Danses - La Raffinerie
21, Rue de Manchester - 1080 Bruxelles
Prix: 100 euros
Infos: +32 (0)497/83 98 45 luea@momentum-festival.org
Réservations: regis@charleroi-danses.be
Transports publics : Tram 82 : De Gare du Midi – direction Berchem Arrêt : Duchesse / Hertogin | Bus 88 : Du centre Bourse – direction Machtens Arrêt : Duchesse / Hertogin | Métros 2 & 6 : Arrêt : Delacroix
Jürgen Fritz on Exploring Performance Art:
In the center of my interest in Performance Art is the person of the artist. By him / her and through him / her the performative image develops. From this several questions for the workshop can be deduced: What is a performative image? How is the performative image developed? What is presence? With what tools can performance artists work on „presence“?
The workshop begins with concrete, sometimes very intensive physical exercises. These exercises do not serve to teach performance art, the preoccupation with these tasks throw the participants back on themselves and so enhance the confrontation with their own aesthetic experience. Existing insights, images or experiences should be activated and brought in to the actions.
In the sense of a negotiation of the topic „presence” the participant shall recognize him/herself regarding the given situation and the others participants. Here questions about impression as physical perception are the subject of the argument. Presence in this sense is „successfully“ setting oneself in relation to the situation of the performance - as an action in the here and now.
Altogether the workshop is arranged into two parts: The first part is dedicated to the group performance. It deals with issues of common rhythm, impulse and perception. The accompanying exercises set the foundations for a common approach to performance art. The second part deals with the personal approach - to the topic, the material and the strategy of solo performance. In the concluding public presentation these two fields of work are united. For this approx. 2 - hour performance a solo performance is developed, which is shown in a public group performance with the other participants
Jürgen Fritz on the definition of Performance Art:
Generally, for the practice I do not consider the discussion about the correct definition of Performance Art as very helpful. I agree with Hans-Thies Lehmann, who in his book 'Post-Dramatic Theater' has the following definition: 'Performance is, what those who are showing it, announce as such.' For the situation of a workshop, however, it is necessary, to limit the resulting spectrum of what constitutes Performance Art, since only a common language level, makes it possible to concentrate on the work. The workshop Exploring Performance Art is therefore based on the following understanding of performance art:
1. Performance Art is a genre of Fine Arts. This setting has an influence mainly on the sculptural self-understanding of the artist, and thus on the expected reception attitude of the audience.
2. Performance Art is processual art. The performative picture develops during the action, in consequence of the confrontation with the material and the performance situation.
3. Performance Art is not expressive or narrative - ie in the foreground stand no stories or messages. In this sense, Performance Art refers to itself, Performance Art is self-referential. The person of the artist is the first and most important material of the artistic discourse.
4. The quality of the submitted objects or the material of the artistic concentration is measured by its potential of changing and developing the person. Therefore it is not the question what the artist does with the material but how the material reflects back on the artist!
5. Hopefully, performance produces an event as a result of a real experience in the situation of the performance.
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