India 2019

Performance Art Workshop Facilitation WUD

World University of Design, Sonepat, India organised by Anupam Saikia, Performance Artist and Assistant Professor

India

Performance Art Workshop Facilitation LPU

Lovely Professional University

Performance Art Workshop and Live Performance at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar organised by Anisha and Sorabh Lakhanpal

India

NIVIA Sports Project II

- Circular Goal -

3D Material Mural for NIVIA Sports, Jalandhar

Circular Goal

Mural, material collage, interactive, site - specific project for NIVIA 2019 by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith 400 x 200 cm wall space

Based on the process oriented making of the artwork  – Circular Goal –, as a mural pays tribute to the workers at NIVIA  SPORTS,  who have participated in the development of the art work and simultaneously have been previously handling the materials by being involved with the production of NIVIA goods: gloves, sports balls, sports garments, shoes, bags etc.

The materials are purposely collected and found on locations of SV Sport Shoes, NIVIA Synthetics and NIVIA Sports as they are left-overs from the line of production. The artwork intentionally draws upon the aspect of recyclable objects to become the pallet for color composition, shapes and forms. The method will be based on hand-stitching which is also a valued feature in the production of footballs by NIVIA.

During the process employees will spend some time together with the artist to help and apply their stitching abilities to become part of completion of the mural. The center of the work is marked by a blank sphere. (representing the potential for an ‘open’, unknown change of perspective and the basic shape of the sports ball itself).

Process of making the mural with the factory workers of NIVIA Sports, India 2019 documented by Chintu (Ravinder Kumar) materials used from recycled, left-over materials in the production of Sport Articles

Serbia

September 2019

21. IMAF, International Media Arts Festival organised by Nenad Bogdanovic

September 2019

Odzaci, former cultural center

Publication

Issue of Decree II, Live Performance

Novi Sad, SULUV Gallery

Germany

Braunschweig 2019

BBK Jahres Aussstellung August 2019, halle 267, Performance Art Opening

Durational Live Performance and Installation

Konzept: die Untersuchung zur unmöglichen Vorbereitung

Welche Interpretationen erlauben in einer Patienten Verfügung über die Grenzen hinaus das Leben des Individuums zu bestimmen.

Gedanken über eine solche geistig-physische Verfassung bleiben spekulativ in Anbetracht des Betroffenen als ‚Patient’.

Der Patient ist bereits ein Erduldender und Leidender.

Der reale Moment der Fremdbestimmung erledigt die Möglichkeit zur Selbstreflektion, denn in dieser reduzierten Situation ist das Individuum machtlos.

In der Verfügung hingegen bewahrt der Mensch sich noch seine Macht nämlich die Fremd Position zur eigenen Bestimmung.

Obgleich diese Position lediglich an der Glaubwürdigkeit halt macht und einem Wunsch-Beschluß nachkommt.

Es gibt keine Garantie, daß Verfügungen auch tatsächlich realisiert werden (können).

France

Paris 2019

collaboration Live Performance with Gilivanka Kedzior

Bangladesh

Dhaka Live Art Biennale 2019

Back ART Foundation D'LAB 2019

January 29 - February 8, 2019 

Back Art, D’LAB 2019, Dhaka Bangladesh, photographs by Adil Hasnat

Back Art, D’LAB 2019, Dhaka Bangladesh, photographs by Ronald Bal and Faisal Mizan Ray

Live Performance Actions in public space

Wipe and Gone (Wisch und Weg) -

Durational situation 2 - 3 hours at chosen public street map, outside location after environmental enquiries

A political level remains to a large extent, symbolic, and the situation reveals the urgency that a vast potential with its impact of the moving body conquers the presence of communication, to reveal a grammar of body existence in the public eye, questioning the participatory role of artist and viewer. Enticing an economy of intellectual investment to the moment when the object and the location begin to enter the dialogue.

Mowing Dhaka 2019

 - A partnership with Life and its encounter with individuality and the magic of hidden tracks

 - A conversation with Self even when a ‘fountain’ appears in darkness and the absence of light deludes the power of perception to sustain that moment of ambiguity and un-knowing.

 The live performance offers an opportunity to bring the template of clarity and void into the foreground.  

Serbia

April 2019

SULUV Gallery and Novi Sad Art College

facilitated Workshop and Live Performance

photographed by Goran Despotovski

Live Performance, - overleft leaves (umblättern) -

….for a moment the space functions as an ark (Latin origin, the chest) with a particular arrangement and infusing the potential of significant selections towards peculiar relations…

In the light of the installation occurs an imaginary resurrection of images from the personal memory bank taking shape beyond the assumed physical borders. It is the power of natural survival through the intertwined source of origin between countries and cultures.  How much can the viewer as impassive participant know? Archival signs conjoin the presence of several collections, which means that the temporal aspects being addressed are bypassed in the flux of actions.

The heap of things being present and the idea of several notions of displacements undermine the knowledge of source materials and their indicative signs of presence. This is assumed in the absence of appropriation or with the conscious confrontation of appropriated positions.

The installation character spins a territory, harvested in detail from different cultural processes and specifications, i.e. Serbia and Bangladesh, Novi Sad and Dhaka.

The action is the moment of gathering, and creating a non-real fabric of fusion and the possibility of alignment and through the haptic material of paper surfaces to represent the tactile interface of drawing and the potential of lasting object-hood.

Performance Art Workshop

- crucial spills -

Final presentation of all workshop participants at SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad

special thanks to

Sunčica Pasuljević Kandić, camera and editing

Assistant at New Media department

Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad

germany

Bad Harzburg 2019

5 qm Gallery

Live Performance - Nachrichten an den Berg - (messages to the mountain)

Konzept DE:

Über die Gedanken an die Performance: “Das Papier erwies sich als vollkommen weiß, weiß und doch nicht leer, ein Weiß, in dass man hineingreifen mochte, wie kalter Schnee oder wie klebriger Lack, das Gegenteil vom schwarzen Loch, ein weißer Überfluss, in den absolut nichts mehr eindringen kann, stattdessen der Schrift die Worte geben, die Gedanken formen, die Perspektiven öffnen…”

Glausnitzer-Smith erforscht seit Jahren in vielen Präsentationen der Live Performance auch das Papier, die Papierrolle und das Potential seiner Machenschaften. Stets erweist sich dieses Material als Herausforderung, in dem das ‘unbeschriebene Blatt’ sich mehr als Wagnis preisgibt. Die Aktion im Einsatz mit Körper und Bewegung bezeugt, wie der innere Grund sich nach außen wölbt, wie der Berg einer Krümmung aus der ebenen Landschaft gleicht.

Concept EN:

About the thoughts on the performance: “The paper turned out to be completely white, white and yet not empty, a whiteness that one could reach into, like cold snow or like sticky white paint, a white abundance and absolutely nothing can penetrate it, instead the surface offers the potential words for writing, forming thoughts and open diffferent perspectives..."

Glausnitzer-Smith has been exploring paper, the paper roll and the prospective of its machinations in several live performances. The material proves to be a challenge, in which a “blank slate” reveals itself to be more of a risk and hesitation.

In action with body and movement the white paper is witness to inner ground curves turning outwards, as the mountain resembles a curve on a flat landscape.

Live Performance DE:

Die Performance ist eine Gegenüberstellung von Körper, Bewegung und in  diesem Fall, dem Papier als scheinbar ‘unbeschriebenes Blatt’. In der live Performance begegnet der Körper der Stille des Raumes und der Zeit sowie dem Potential der ‘scheinbar’ leeren Fläche des Papiers. In dieser Begegnung und im Beisein unterschiedlicher Objekte in der Installation testet die Künstlerin den Umgang mit den Dingen, der jedoch einer direkten, erhofften Reaktion aus dem Weg geht.

Hier wird die Aktion nicht mit der Reaktion konfrontiert sondern verwandelt die Gegebenheiten des Moments zu einer Situation. Im bewegten Bild versteckt sich die Beziehung zwischen Körper und Objekt und wird in einen unvorhersehbaren Rahmen aus Raum und Zeit transportiert.

Die Live Performance scheint diesen Rahmen zu sprengen.

Es ist als ob man den Dingen einen Lebensatem einhaucht. Das metaphysische Vokabular reizt nicht nur die Gedanken, sondern bildet eine Dimension im Moment, die sich in Energie übersetzen lässt. Diese Kräfte fügen die Sensibilität der Körper-Bewegung mit der Dinghaftigkeit zusammen und kulminieren im Moment der Aktion in ihrer Wirkung.

Die Situation ist im Entstehungsprozess. 

Es ist der Versuch sich im Selbst-Sein, selbst  zu überholen und damit das konditionierte Zeitdenken umzulenken.

Als ob der Prozess im ABSURDEN ertrinkt. 

Live Performance EN:

The performance is a juxtaposition of body, movement and in this case, the paper as a seemingly 'blank slate'. In the performance, the body encounters the silence of space and time as well as the potential of the apparent empty surface. In this encounter and the presence of different installation objects, the artist is testing the unexpected situation.

The action is a rejoinder and transformation of circumstances occuring in the moment.

The relationship between body and object is hidden in the moving image and is transported into an unpredictable framework of space and time.

The performance seems to transgress the framework. It is like breathing life into things. The metaphysical vocabulary not only stimulates the mind, it creates a dimension that is translated into energy.

Unknown forces combine the sensitivity and awareness of body movement which culminates in a moment. The situation is in the process of development with an attempt to overtake oneself

and redirecting one's conditioned thinking, as if the process was drowning in the ABSURD.

Canada

Edmonton - Zero Gravity - 2019

Mile Zero Performance Art Summit and Performance Art Workshop, co-facilitated by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Beau Coleman, Francesco Kiais, PASHIAS and Alexandra Zierle

Workshop Impressions

Live Performance at MIle Zero

… It’s cup for the other (uptime and downtime)

idea excerpt:

The Live Action with its movement in a given location is equipped with several attempts of semiotic defiance and uncertainty. Formations of the body’s action maneuver in unstructured, pre-defined territories between thought, intuition and impulse. Multiple exchange of uncontrollable energy investment tests the momentary engagement with the spirit-mind grasp of materials as objects.

Zero Gravity could be at the pivotal of the indetermination of presupposed laws of gravitation, which at the center of a philosophical quest could determine a physical image and function of the planet earth.   This image in any case is impossible to imagine as a whole. Thus its parts become a larger unknown factor to be visualized. There is defiance of attraction observed in space. Some of the prerequisites are the existence of matter noticeable by gravitation.

photographed by Matt Simpson, Zero Gravity International Performance Art Festival produced by Mile Zero Dance

special thanks to Beau Coleman, Amanda Bergen, Gerry Morita, Angèle Karosi, Jasmine SalazarTrent Crosby, Kayla Poon and all wonderful Artists from Canada and the World