Performative Installation

The “performative installation” describes a highly topical phenomenon that in 2003 called for a precise analysis of its artistic characteristics. For in a field only inadequately described by “installation art” as a kind of universal genre, it is precisely performative and interactive strategies that give installations their specific appearance. The book therefore presents artists and works that seek a synthesis of event and work, of presence and representation, of immateriality and materiality, and that aim to capture the fleeting moment as an element of the installation that is both generated and constitutive. In these “performative installations” the dialectic of subject and object is suspended, for they seek to form a new shared identity. With exhibitions at five different venues, all connected by the theme, different aspects of performative installations are presented through international positions. The exhibitions are autonomous in themselves; only the book brings together a view of the various facets of the shared 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:
Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, 6/9–19/10/2003
Museum Ludwig Köln, 1/11/2003–11/1/2004
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 7/11/2003–4/1/2004
Secession Wien, 19/2–18/4–2004
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 19/9–31/10/2004