Feiko Beckers - A disappointment you can rely on
06/04/2018 | Manifesta Office Amsterdam
Performance A disappointment you can rely on
As part of the opening of the project perform doc
Performance followed by the performance *** by Dora Garcia
On April 6th, 2018, from 19h to 21h, at the Manifesta Building, Amsterdam
Feiko Beckers - A disappointment you can rely on
06/04/2018 | Manifesta Office Amsterdam
Performance A disappointment you can rely on
As part of the opening of the project perform doc
Performance followed by the performance *** by Dora Garcia
On April 6th, 2018, from 19h to 21h, at the Manifesta Building, Amsterdam
Performance by Jeremiah Day
Details to come soon
Grace Schwindt
Grace Schwindt (1979, Offenbach, Germany) is an artist based in London and Amsterdam. Her main artistic practice is focused on performances and films. Recently she has integrated sculptures and drawings into her practice. Many of her works explore aspects of historical events with an emphasis on social relationships. However, it is never obvious where she draws the line between fiction and nonfiction. According to Schwindt, her attempt is to clear exclusion and destruction from institutionalized spaces. She also wants to deconstruct narrative structures, knowing fully well that spaces will always be loaded with sociological connotations. Her practice highlights social abstraction and subjectivity produced by historical and institutional objectivity, and labels them as part of a resistant materiality against exclusion [1].
Grace Schwindt is interested in the fragility of bodies, and analyses their role as well as the roles of objects and language in the construction of history and memory [2]. In her work, the bodies become an image, in between two and three dimensions, past and present, retrospective and documentation. Collaborating with the soprano singer Lisa Cassandri, she is interested in the voice and language moving apart. In some of her performances, she focuses on the voice moving away from the body and becoming an entity on its own.
Her complex multidisciplinary approach allows the artist to investigate events from multiple perspectives, and she is thereby opposed to a simple interpretation. Schwindt herself coordinates the productions in detail by writing her own scripts, choreographing and designing the costumes; both the content and the visual elements are treated with great care. Furthermore, she also investigated the concept of construction and deconstruction of meaning musically by modifying renowned scores.
[1] Vishmidt, M. (2016) 'The Coming Materialism'.
Available at: https://www.springerin.at/en/2016/1/der-kommende-materialismus/
[2] Sherlock, A. (2016) 'At Dinner'.
Available at: https://frieze.com/article/dinner
[3] Zeno X Gallery. (2013) 'Grace Schwindt'.
Available at: http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/GS/grace_schwindt_bio.html
53 minutes Dancers: Gerard Bell, Yumiko Funaya | Singer: Olivia Salvadori | Musicians: Elio Marchesini, Iose Ravera| Acrobat: Celicia Sdrubulini | Dramaturgical support: Esther Severi Commissioned by Kaaitheater as part of Performatik Performance Festival 2017 Supported by Argos Centre for Art and Media, Deutsche Botschaft Brüssel, Instituto Italiano di Cultura Bruxelles & Jan Van Eyck Institute Maastricht 2017 Courtesy of the artist
26 minutes Commissioned by Block Universe Performance Festival and Royal Academy, London, 2016 Courtesy of the artist
36 minutes Comissioned by MARCO – Museum of Contemporary Arts, Vigo, 2016 Conductor: Ramón Souto Performed by Lisa Cassidy and Vertixe Sonora Ensemble Courtesy of the artist
53 minutes Dancers: Gerard Bell, Yumiko Funaya | Singer: Olivia Salvadori | Musicians: Elio Marchesini, Iose Ravera| Acrobat: Celicia Sdrubulini | Dramaturgical support: Esther Severi Commissioned by Kaaitheater as part of Performatik Performance Festival 2017 Supported by Argos Centre for Art and Media, Deutsche Botschaft Brüssel, Instituto Italiano di Cultura Bruxelles & Jan Van Eyck Institute Maastricht 2017 Courtesy of the artist