Gebruiker:Peter baren/Kladblok

'NOTES ON BEHAVIOUR OUTLET [a SHORT LISTED history of PB performances 1987 - 2019] Certain actions and themes return in a different form years later'

The motif of the hanging man re-emerges in a performance in Eindhoven (NL, De Fabriek 1987- SILHOUETTES LIKE SHIVERING ANCIENT FEELINGS): this time the performance was carried out for two hours by sixteen figures dressed in black. Turn by turn half of them hung overstretched for five minutes from the curved ceiling down while the other half rested after applauding to eachother, when unhooked) as well as in New York (1990- Franklin Furnace presents SPIRIT. Peter Baren performances featuring Seymour Likely and two homeless men).

In 1988, for the main exhibition BEZUGSPUNKTE / POINTS OF REFERENCE 38/88 during the renowned Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz (A), Baren produced [1] ECHO OF HYSTORIA. The city has a huge clocktower, that dominates the skyline and from there he hung a larger than life-size figure suspended from the hands of the clock, thus stopping time for the period that the exhibition lasted. [2] ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, the second project, was refused without any official reason by Austrian Railway Company. It consists of doubling a proclamation, published in 1938 during the uprising of National-Socialism, and was to be handpainted in a blurry way on the huge window-pane in the Main Hall of the trainstation (every day till the very end of the exhibition).

The final round Prix de Rome 1989 Art&Theatre took place in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. The commission was to stage Macbeth. Several scenes were produced, one was chosen to perform live. The concept included work by other artists [Magdalena Abakanowicz, Joseph Beuys, Kiki Smith, Gerrit van Bakel]. The exhibition of the material took place at Museum Fodor. WE WANNA LOSE OUR HEADS FOR ANYTHING [IN TIME] was a succession of crystallized emotions. Long-haired figures were held up with balloons, filled with heliumgas, in a bedding of shredded paper and only lit up by sudden flashlights. The natural flow of time was sliced up. Several versions of WWLOHFA[IT] have been performed in: 1988- London (UK), SPRING TIDE. Chisenhale Gallery and Dance Space / 1989- Amsterdam (NL), BEYOND PERFORMANCE. Arti et Amicitiae/ 1989- Zürich (CH), Shedhalle/ PERFORMANCE TAGE. 1 2 3 November and in 1991- Katowice (POL), III. Spotkania Teatru Wizji I Plastyki. Poltel Filmstudios.

A great number of very short SPIRIT. performances were presented as part of several guided tours throughout a medieval fortress, blending reality (as we know it) with moments of recollection during Belluard Bollwerk International 1992, Fribourg (CH) and a selection in Cyprian Majernik Gallery in Bratislava (SK) alongside the exhibition HILLS + MILLS. In 1990 the first selection of SPIRIT. performances took place in New York (US) via Franklin Furnace presents PETER BAREN featuring SEYMOUR LIKELY. CARESSING THE DIKE [1996] celebrated the making of dikes and the struggle to protect the land from being flooded. During DIJKWACHT. Art and poetry on the borders of Flevoland. Everyday for three months, in the summer of 1996 (near Lelystad, polder-district, NL), a tractor gently rotated an impressive selection of casted hands of the workmen who built the dikes (in the fifties), inhabitants of the district itself and visitors to the performance. During TransArt Communication 1997, PROGRESS PROGRESS was performed as the missing allegory on top of the timpanon of Műcsarnok - Palace of Exhibitions and on Heroes Square, Budapest (HU). Also rooftopping Cinema MIER (TAC. Nové Zámky, SK)

ABBEY ROAD / 2001 PITFALLS, consisted of a full days walk (September 1, 2000 - with Koos Dalstra), started from the geographical center of Zeeland, a southern province in The Netherlands: where two monks found pumpkins (on that very spot) and brought them to socalled Zeeuwse Meisjes (young maids in folkloristic costumes) who were awaiting them in the main square of the capital city, Middelburg. It is said that the seed of pumpkins raises fertility. BEGGARS BANQUET. A well-dressed man yet in beggar position, demanded passers-by to DISCOVER HEAVEN and showing examples how to achieve that. First appearances in Nové Zámky and Bratislava (SK) during TransArtCommunication 2002 / since then around the city of Venice, alongside the preview of 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy)/ Cleveland’s international performance art festival 2003, Ohio (US)/ Tate Modern Grdns, London (UK)/ Infr’Action#6 festival, Sète (France). Ongoing series. In 2004 the ARK series started life in New York City during Currency 2004, an international festival of contemporary performance. Operatic in nature, ARK ( ) finds a meeting ground between sensual bewilderment and political commentary which points out the constructed nature of our ideas of cultural memory and our sometimes superficial notions of identity.

One specific example in this series: ARK (ON HOPE AND OTHER TERMINAL BODIES SUCH AS BRIDGE OF SIGHS, SLEEP OF REASON AND WAILING WALL) was performed during BLURRR 5. Biennial of Performance Art. Tel Aviv (Israel), Nov. 2005. For three days in a row, a young man with his head scarved in and dangling satellites from his outstretched fingers, was lead out of CCA Gallery and was process(ion)ed along different sites where suicide-bombings took place, such as shopping streets, market, crossroads, busstation, and seaside. Several actions took place at that seaside: writing the word HOPE (in different languages) in the sand around the (exhausted) scarved figure, still holding up the dangling satellites - throwing a boomerang towards the sea with SPIRIT written on it and after tearing the shirt opposite the scarved figure, return to CCA-

Other extended ARK versions (2005-2012) LIVE. Biennial for Performance Art in Vancouver, Canada (Oct. 005)- The National Review of Live Art/NEW MOVES INTERNATIONAL. Tramway, Glasgow (UK) Feb. 2007 - Incantation in the sense of stillness. Bewaerschole, Burgh-Haamstede (NL). Together with Aaron Williamson and Toine Horvers (Sep. 2007) - 10th OPEN International Performance Art festival. 798 Art Zone, Beijing (CN), August 2009- 3. Preavis de Desordre Urbain. Marseille (F), September 2009- The Manifold (after) Lives of Performance. Frascati theatre/de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL) and PLAYGROUND festival/ STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE), November 2009- InfrAction#6. Festival International d’Art Performance. Sète (F), September 2010- Guangzhou Live. 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou (CN), December 2010- TRANSMUTED festival internacional de performance. Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City (MEX), April 2011- INTERAKCY. 14th International Action Art Festival. Galeria ODA, Piotrkow Trybunalski (POL), May 2012-

In 2013 a new [ongoing] series did come to life: BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. First appearances during DEFRAMED. Infr'Action Venezia #2 alongside the preview of the 57th. Venice Biennial. May 2014: The first monography about Peter Baren was presented at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. PERFORMANCES 1980 - 2013.

Selected BDWTHOM performances and other presentations [2014 - PRESENT]: STAGE IT! Series of presentations on performance art. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) May 2014 - Graft and Transplant. Entity Concept Exhibition. Blue Roof Art Festival. Chengdu (CN) August 2014 - Once upon a time…The collection now. Counter Cultures. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL) 2014 - ANDERS SEIN. City of Neuss (DE) May 2015 (Produced by Kulturforum Alte Post) - A CALL FOR DRAWINGS. BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL) June 2015 – TheParallelShow #3. M Museum, Leuven (B) December 2015 - RAPID PULSE#5. Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago (US) June 2016 - 12th VERBO. Performance Art Festival. Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (BRA) July 2016 - MIP3. Manifestacão Internacional de Performance. SESC Palladium, Belo Horizonte (BRA) August 2016- Préavis de Désordre Urbain #10. On borders and migrations. Marseille (F) September 2016. ART ROTTERDAM. INTERSECTIONS. Van Nelle fabriek, Rotterdam (NL) with FLAM. February 2017. FLAM VII. Forum of Live Art. Arti et Amicitiae and theater Frascati, Amsterdam (NL) June 2017 - BLAUVERSCHIEBUNG No10. Galerie KUB and Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (DE) December 2017 - The Parallel Show [#1-10]. Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL) April 2018 - Fractured Bodies. TEMPTING FAILURE #18. London Biennial of Performance Art and Noise. Croydon district, London (UK) July 2018 - TAC#30. TransArt Communication festival. City of Nové Zámky (SK) September 2018 - TAC#30. 1988-2018 The exhibition. Ernest Zmetak Gallery, Nové Zámky (SK) Sep./Oct. 2018 - ART ACTION 1998-2018. Le Lieu, Quebec (CAN) November 2018 - PROJECT ID. IN-BETWEEN IDENTIES. organized by P.S. Performance Site together with VestAndPage and Marilyn Arsem. The Hague (NL) June/July 2019 - 7th UP-ON Live Art Festival. Chengdu (CN) October 2019 -