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Passing Peaks.
A Series of Performative
Individuations.
11th Performance Project
at LISTE—Art Fair Basel
June 15–20, 2015
Curated by Eva Birkenstock.
Texts by Eva Birkenstock
Design by Dan Solbach
Printed by Druckerei Dietrich AG,
Basel
The Performance Project is made
possible by the generous support of:
ALFRED RICHTERICH
STIFTUNG
Thanks to the participating artists,
Fabienne Blanc, Peter Bläuer, Susanne BALIMA
STIFTUNG
Blaser, Norman Chernick-Zeitlin,
Nikola Dietrich, Yilmaz Dziewior, Ulrike
Gerhardt, Tina Kim, Verena Kittel,
Kerstin Stakemeier, and Jacqueline
Uhlmann.
Hosted by LISTE
Art Fair Basel
Burgweg 15
CH-4058 Basel
www.liste.ch
The 11th edition of the performance
project at LISTE focuses on works
that examine different modes of
individuation. In contrast to early
performative approaches, which, from
the sixties onwards, critically engaged
subjectivity via Body Art and a desire
for authenticity, the invited group of
artists, dancers and choreographers
embrace to the same extend the note
of the artificial, the jargon of the
neoliberal wellness culture, exoticisms,
media surfaces, or self-constructed
images, and realities. They intentionally confine the borders of one’s own
body, one’s own mutability and
fetishability, while constantly transgressing the boundaries between
art and pop culture, art and avantgarde theatre, experimental dance,
fashion or music. Beyond experiments
with the own body, they work with
layerings of various references,
materials, and resources, that crisscross these bodies, and with it one’s
own fluctuating states of individuation.
founded in 2009
→ On the street outside LISTE
Burgweg 15
(see map in the back)
Free Admission
Z∆Z∆ZZ is a performative, tribal
space music project initiated in 2009
by artists Melanie Bonajo and Joseph
Marzolla. They see themselves as a
musical institution for the unrepresented, a sound shield against the
fantasies of the dominating group.
Their performances are inspired by
places unpenetrated by human
thought, speaking landscapes, isolation, songs of ghosts and animal
spirits, colonialism, erosion of the
ethno-spheres, extinct feelings,
extinct thoughts, fear of silence,
intimacy to nature and death, absence
of history, tri-genderism, unrevealed
yet perceivable parallel universes,
such as the spirit of Inua.
For the Performance Project,
Z∆Z∆ZZ expands the self to identify with “others” (people, animals,
ecosystems). Human life is made
possible due to the harmonious balance of interdependent relationships
between these non-human organisms. Aspects of Western mythology
commonly perceived as being truthful
will be turned upside down and inside
out. What would have happened if
human beings had evolved from the
potted houseplant? The performance
by Z∆Z∆ZZ addresses a way to
disband the model of human identity
as only minimally and accidentally
connected to Earth.
Melanie Bonajo, lives in Amsterdam
and New York
Joseph Marzolla, lives in the French
Alps
Z∆Z∆ZZ with Melanie Bonajo &
Joseph Marzolla, Heart of No, 2012.
lives in New York and Athens
with Trajal Harrell and
Thibault Lac
→ Kaserne Basel (Rossstall 1)
Klybeckstrasse 1b
(see map in the back)
Admission CHF 15 (starticket.ch,
or +41 61 666 6000)
In the American and English naming
tradition, a junior ( jr.) is the son of a
father with the same name. Thus,
with Antigone jr. ++, the New York
choreographer Trajal Harrell purposely
scales down Sophocles’ tragedy to
the playwright’s first scene depicting
the relationship between Antigone
and her sister Ismene; and their tragic
fate.
Antigone Jr. ++ confronts the
postmodern antagonism against tragically dramatic dance epitomized by
Martha Graham’s mythological Greek
dramas by presenting this contemporary dance version of Sophocles’
“Antigone.” By imagining a theoretical meeting between Voguing and
Post-modern dance, much of Yvonne
Rainer’s 1965 “No Manifesto” is put
into crisis. Most of the no’s become
definite maybe’s: maybe to spectacle,
maybe to transformations and magic and make-believe, maybe to the
glamour and the transcendency of
the star image, maybe to the heroic,
maybe to involvement of performer or
spectator, maybe to style, maybe to
trash imagery, maybe to camp, maybe
to seduction of the spectator by the
wiles of the performer, and maybe to
moving or be moved.
Trajal Harrell’s work will be presented
in cooperation with Kaserne Basel.
Trajal Harrell, Antigone jr. ++ /Twenty
Looks or Paris is Burning at The
Judson Church (Plus)
Photo: Mark Levine
lives in Berlin
2015
→ junges theater basel
Kasernenstrasse 23
(see map in the back)
Admission CHF 15 (starticket.ch,
or +41 61 666 6000)
Berlin-based performing artist Jeremy
Wade presents Death Asshole Rave
Video, a one-man show. An asshole,
that interrogates death and the
agreements we make as a society. In a
gothic and queer-scape, Wade offers
vehicles for experiencing different
deaths—the death of theatre, the
death of value, the death of sense,
and the death of attachment. He
demands of us to die before we die.
He asks us, if all of the social agreements that have been made are either
breaking or already broken, then
what’s next? It’s time to die!
Jeremy Wade’s work will be presented
in cooperation with Kaserne Basel in
the adjacent venue of junges theater
basel.
Jeremy Wade, Death Asshole Rave
Video, 2015
Photo: Ian Douglas
lives in Amsterdam
lives in Zürich
lives in Zürich
lives in Amsterdam
lives in Zürich
2015
→ Alemannengasse 44
(see map in the back)
Free Admission
With GONZO performance artists,
dancers and choreographers Florentina
Holzinger, Nils Amadeus Lange,
Annina Machaz, Vincent Riebeek, and
Manuel Scheiwiller attempt to place
the audience directly into the scene.
The title of this new production refers
to “Gonzo Pornography”—a term
deriving from “Gonzo Journalism,” a
form of journalism without any claim
to objectivity. On the contrary, the
reporter him / herself is part often
of the story, and reports via a firstperson narrative. Likewise, the
audience in Basel is put right into the
action to avoid its usual exclusion,
in this case, from the direct on-stage
experience. The visitors are invited to
merge into the creation of the piece
by being offered multiple perspectives
onto the scenes, and thus to reveal
the reality of the creation. GONZO
takes place in an abandoned pavilion
in a private garden close to the
Warteck. The performers occupy this
“contemporary wilderness” to apply
Hunther S. Thompson’s (who popularized Gonzo Journalism) motto, “Doing
it yourself your own way,” while trying
to survive outside the theatre.
GONZO is part of the group’s ongoing
project, Jungle, which will be premiered at Tanzhaus Zurich in October
2015.
Florentina Holziner, Nils Amadeus
Lange, Annina Machaz, Vincent
Riebeek, Manuel Scheiwiller, GONZO,
2015.
Photo: Manuel Scheiwiller
lives in New York
2014
→ Volkshaus Basel
Rebgasse 12–14
(see map in the back)
Free Admission
In her performance Lord of Beef Ieva
Misevičiūtė presents a series of
impersonations, dance and speech
acts depicting objects, people, phenomena, and philosophical concepts.
Enactment and impersonation is
where theatre begins, but also the
point where theatre is accused of its
artificiality and inauthenticity.
However, maybe the failure of the
“realness” of theatre is precisely
its attempt to depict reality?
In Misevičiūtė’s performance impersonations go beyond the imitation
of human qualities to concepts such
as radical hospitality, soft knowledge,
small face behind you, I don‘t care
about friends, I’d like some parents,
and there is no stopping this institution. The last impersonation of the
show is based on a Japanese Butoh
tongue dance technique, where the
performer’s body gradually surrenders
to the movement itself, inverting the
mechanism of impersonation and thus
the theatrical act finds its border with
ritual.
Ieva Misevičiūtė, Lord of Beef, 2014.
Photo: Michael Underwood
founded in 2011
2015
→ junges theater basel
Kasernenstrasse 23
(see map in the back)
Free Admission
For the 2015 Performance Project at
LISTE, Villa Design Group premiers a
new dramatic work entitled A Summer’s Rest (Je t’aime Mont Blanc).
Drawn from the groups research into
the pioneering work of early 20th
century American theatre collective,
The Group Theater, the new performance, detailing the forced exile of a
textile dynasty in the face of modern
terrorism, features original sets,
costumes, and props, and continues
Villa Design Groups investigations
into the complicated relations between economies of use and economies of decoration in the queer
present.
Villa Design Group, This Summer We
Rest, But They Still Chase, 2015.
lives in Amsterdam and Brussels
2015
→ Starts at Basel Minster
Rittergasse 3
(see map in the back)
Free Admission
Eglė Budvytytė works with performances and cinematographic situations to subvert implicit, unwritten
“scripts” present in dominant paradigms that determine our behaviour.
Her performative inquiries explore the
discrepancies between individualized
movements and habits, and the
rational, homogenized layout of the
city. She is fascinated by the potential
of both the body and gesture to
induce a shift of awareness in space,
as well as situations where the boundaries between scripted and ordinary
modes of acting dissolve in favour of
unseen gaps, cracks, and distinct
movements. What happens when
culturally coded and “scripted” bodies
start to behave slightly differently,
deviate from expected routines and
scenarios of normativity? For the 11th
Performance Project she produced a
new site-specific performance dedicated to the river, fatigue, and the act
of softly dragging each other around.
Eglė Budvytytė, sketch for
Some were carried, some—dragged
behind, 2015.
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From Basel SBB / SNCF: Tram Nº 1
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Bahnhof until Kunstmuseum,
walk 3 minutes
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Tram Nº 8 in direction
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Tram Nº 6 or 14 in direction
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From LISTE: Wettseinplatz Tram
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June 15
ZAZAZOZO
with Melanie Bonajo and Joseph
Marzolla
Concert for Potted
Plants, Endlings,
the Unrepresented and
Other Awkward Beings.
7 p.m.
→ On the street outside LISTE
Free Admission
June 16
Trajal Harrell
with Thibault Lac
Antigone Jr. ++/ Twenty
Looks or Paris is Burning
at The Judson Church
(Plus)
7 p.m.
→ Kaserne Basel (Rossstall 1)
Admission: CHF 15 (starticket.ch,
or +41 61 666 60 00)
June 18
Florentina Holzinger,
Nils Amadeus Lange,
Annina Machaz,
Vincent Riebeek,
Manuel Scheiwiller
GONZO
4 p.m.
→ Alemannengasse 44
Free Admission
June 19
Ieva Misevičiūtė
Lord of Beef
3 p.m.
→ Volkshaus Basel
Free Admission
Villa Design Group
A Summer’s Rest
(Je t’aime Mont Blanc)
7 p.m.
→ junges theater basel
Free Admission
June 17
Jeremy Wade
Death Asshole Rave Video
7 p.m.
→ junges theater basel
Admission: CHF 15 (starticket.ch,
or +41 61 666 60 00)
June 20
Eglė Budvytytė
Some were carried,
some—dragged behind.
8 p.m.
→ Starts at Basel Minster
Free Admission

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