With SOILcollective and Rosa Sijben
Curated by Tebeac / graduation exhibition
The performative artist performing an object performed by the audience. The performative object performing an audience performed by the artist. The performative audience performing the artist as performed by the object.
Performativity is everywhere.
The society we all function in today, characterized by individuality and a high performance culture, demands for constant performativity. Consciousness regarding this need to prove ourselves is growing, making us all performers in one great big show of constructed versions of who we are.
So how does this relate to the visual arts? What is the role of the contemporary artist, the contemporary art object and the contemporary art audience in relation to this notion of performativity? A question we unravel with Rosa Sijben at BUDA arts centre and SOILcollective in These Things Take Time.
Rosa Sijben at
BUDA arts centre, Courtrai
4 July–27 September 2015
SOILcollective at
These Things Take Time, Ghent
24-29 June 2015
Curated by:
Wouter De Vleeschouwer
Loes Jansen
Robin Legge
Riet Meeus
Evelyn Simons
Jeroen Staes
Pamela Stuyck
Anneleen Swillen
Charlotte Vandenborre
Stéphanie Vandenecker
Isabel Van Bos
Lenja Van Laeken
Emma van Wolferen
Eva Wijnant
Guided by:
Pieternel Vermoortel (FormContent)