Performance : Fay Nicolson OVER AND OVER PURE FORM

5 Aug 2016-1 Jan 2000

Overview

On Friday 5th August Kunstraum presents the first in a new series of performance commissions, with a live enactment of Fay Nicolson's text OVER AND OVER PURE FORM. Accompanied by a chorus of four performers and live percussion, Nicolson's OVER AND OVER PURE FORM meditates on the reality of art education today and how bodies, behaviours and attitudes are moulded through formal terminologies or ideologies. Structured around a typical first semester at art school, the performance draws on module components including studio exercises, a critical studies lecture and the all-important evaluation. OVER AND OVER PURE FORM reflects on the changing nature of art education, drawing on Nicolson's own experience alongside texts by Friedrich Schiller, Thierry de Duve, Charles Madge and Barbara Weinberger.