Lock Unlock Performance Art Project
online, concurrent Performances followed by discussion
6 core artists meet 3 guest artists on a monthly basis
Lock Unlock Performance Art Project
In the times of the global pandemic of COVID 19 in 2020
LOCK UNLOCK Performance Art Project originated from the effect of ‘unphysical’ gatherings sustaining the times of the global pandemic of COVID 19 in 2020. The project consists of a bi-weekly, simultaneous performances by 9 Artists from different world regions.
Based on the experiences of the pandemic, global experiences -the lock unlock- online activities and initiative began. The program has established itself as continuous zoom gatherings which alternate in simultaneous, virtual and recorded performative actions, followed a week later by a discussion amongst the invited participants. The -the lock unlock- project with its zoom meetings is edited and generated through YouTube and social media platforms. We as artists and performance artists are able to bridge and temporarily overcome the absences of travelling, artistic nomadic interceptions and live exchanges at the crossroad of public interventions.
Crucial questions arose during the beginning, and reflections of the recordings are mainly concerned with the attention for the participatory role of the spectator in the live situation versus this peculiar non-negotiable, non-appearance in the absences of the viewer due to international community restrictions. The experience of energy, bodily forces, smells, interactivity, smells, sounds and movement through multiple sources was missed and has been sacrificed, yet somehow survived in new virtual research avenues.
Lock Unlock Performance Art Project is celebrating 32 guest international artists from April 2020 - July 2021 who have participated at the monthly simultaneous, online performance art event. Nine Core Artists started to meet on a regular basis during the early days of Corona Pandemic to pursue rigorously the process of performance art in action.
Ongoing Lock Unlock Performance Art Project is paying tribute to 32 international guest artists
Hannover 2020
Studio: Ilka Theurich Project Space
ATELIER:PERFORMANCE #28 - DAGMAR I. GLAUSNITZER-SMITH WITNESSED BY SYLKE WITTIG
Concept for Live Performance One performer and one witness
- overmapped purge - video collaboration with Inder Salim, Dehli, India
Live Performance - overmapped purge - , one Performer Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith and one witness Sylke Wittig
drawings by Sylke Wittig, expanded version for Tatoo Design
IMAF 2020
22. Multimedia Arts Festival Serbia with online program
Collaboration Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith and Vincenzo Fiore Marrese
Title: It's time
Concept: Two artists share the same space at the same moment. Their movement and their individual task differs by way of unplanned, un-announced, un-structured and un-intentional meeting by one common denominator: occupation of identical space and time. In the absence of the public eye and in the presence of the camera their actions appear unrelated. Though their presence-relation supersedes any conscious cohesion.
They are here and now, together and they start to collide. In collision, a new meaning emerges. It draws on the relationship between the body and the
objects as a displaced, unified, ontological category. On one side, the attempt is to dissolve the presence of the object through movement, and the presence of sounds. On the other side, there is an attempt to combine the body, the time when sound travels through movement in space.
This work impacts as Live Performance for the camera and implements, in a sense, how it is possible to find euphony from two different perspectives, in the eye of the camera as it appears in the recording of moving images sourced by two different entities of fleeting experiences.
It's time.
It's time for collision.
Braunschweig 2020
Released Grounds
Open Source Live Performance with Jeanne Hamilton, Yingmei Duan, Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith
Under the restrictions of the global pandemic in the absence of the public viewer, camera, photography by Barbara Benfrádj-Niwa and Christian Niwa, Braunschweig 26.9.2020, Wolfenbüttelerstrasse 39, Werftraum Park
Three regional artists from the Braunschweig area came together to enter a situation of simultaneous live performance. Each artist engages within their own individual entity to sustain perseverance …
Concept notes: Jeanne Hamilton. US/DE
DE: Ich habe 10 Objekte mitgebracht, die mich durch die 30-minütige Performance leiten konnten und habe die Rolle einer energischen verzweifelten queer Intellektuelle übernommen. Unter die Objekte sind u.a. Tabletten, Bücher von Hannah Arendt, ein Vibrator, eine alte Brille aus die 80er Jahren. Ich versuchte, ein Weg durch den Wahnsinn zu finden.
EN: For the performance I brought 10 objects that helped to guide me through the 30 minutes. I took over the role of the aggitated, sometimes desparate, queer intellectual, consulting the objects including pills, books by Hannah Arendt, a vibrator and some old 1980s glasses. I was trying to find my way through the insanity.
Concept notes: Yingmei Duan CHN/DE
Yingmei probiert
Concept notes: Glausnitzer-Smith. DE
DE: Der Zusammenwurf verschiedener, gesammelter Materialien bestimmt die Situation, die in den Anfängen vage nur ist, im Verlauf nicht zu beherrschen ist, immer schon unkontrollierbar erscheint, und dennoch die Farben und Texturen befreit, und sich der Rhythmus der Bewegungen in Wiederholungen ballt, dann plötzlich ist alles unterbrochen im Muster der un-koordinierten Zeichen. Im emotionalen Wirrwarr bleibt der Körper willenlos zurück. Und da wird die Angst vor Atemlosigkeit unter der Masse des Materials, zum Auslöser für die Kapitulation.
Weist die Angst auf die Grenzen ?
EN: The gathering of materials from different sources and origin determine in this situation the beginning of an unsettling, gradual moment of unmanageability, when the outset appears still controllable, when the outset liberates the draping of colours and textures, when the outset maintains a movement of rhythmic intervals, then suddenly the conduit is being interrupted by a set of dis-coordinate signs, and in part emotional turmoil and the body governed by will is ornate. Until the overwhelming amount of material under the fear of suffocation leads to the surrender in trance.
India 2020 Niv Art Centre
- seeing the essence of things -
Invitation to online Performance, curated and organised by Jeetin Rangher
Topic: Chapter 3, Oblak Performances/Objects & Vulnerability
PEPA 2020
The Purge of Painted Desires
On Line Zoom Performance
Webinar November 2020
followed by Discussion with Barry Kostrinsky NYC
Concept
The proposal of “ The Purge of Painted Desires “ as a zoom performance for November 22, 2020 PEPA online event will further research its visual extensions with the contradictions of appropriations towards a virtual presence. It endures the location, yet is discovering corners to become potent spaces, stripped of their function to have been a room corner, surfaces which appear as flat canvas by first impression, transform into the scape zone of the middle ground of painting or seen in Zen Master Eishu’s Landscape drawings, become the definitive only for a brief moment before it escapes.
The idea of escape returns with the aspect of desire. The centre of attention dissolves as the virtual, flat screen is not infinite in its corners.
Who, may I ask is the viewer of the edge?
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith, Werftraum, Braunschweig © November 2020
Indonesia 2020
Jakarta Rewind No 19
Public Lecture and Film Screening
image excerpts - Rewind Art online lecture
Cyprus 2020
E.Ka.Te , Perceiving Academy, Nicosia Live Artist in Residency and Workshop
Loose Lost 2020, Live Performance