Performative Installation

A common term today, but new back then!

Performative installation" describes a highly topical phenomenon that demanded a precise analysis of its artistic characteristics in 2003. For in a field that is inadequately described as a universal genre by the term "installation art", it is precisely performative and interactive strategies that give installations their specific appearance. The book thus presents artists and works that seek a synthesis of event and work, of presence and representation, of immateriality and materiality, that aim to capture the fleeting moment as both a generated and constitutive element of the installation. In these "performative installations", the dialectic of subject and object is cancelled, as they seek to form a new common identity. With the exhibitions at five different locations, which are linked to the theme in terms of content, different aspects of performative installations are presented by international positions. The exhibitions are autonomous in themselves; only the book unites the view of the various facets of the common theme.

Participating artists: Victor Alimpiev and Marian Zhunin, Emanuelle Antille, Maja Bajevic and Emanuel Licha, BLESS, John Bock, Cosima von Bonin, Monica Bonvicini, Angela Bulloch, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Brice Dellsperger, Ayse Erkmen, Andreas Fogarasi, Andrea Fraser, Jef Geys, Oliver Hangl, Swetlana Heger, Jeppe Hein, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Stefan Kern, Karl-Heinz Klopf/ Sigrid Kurz, Dorit Margreiter & Anette Baldauf, John Miller, Olaf Nicolai, René Pollesch, Pro qm, Lily van der Stokker, Apolonija Sustersic, Swinger, Heimo Zobernig

.exhibitions:
Gallery in the Taxispalais Innsbruck, 6(9-19/10/2003
Museum Ludwig Cologne, 1/11/2003-11/1/2004
Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, 7/11/2003-4/1/2004
Secession Vienna, 19/2-18/4-2004
Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, 19/9-31/10/2004