ephemeropteræ 8: Emily Roysdon & Thomas Raab
Bildende Kunst Zeitgenössische Kunst Vortrag
Die Spoken-Word Performancereihe wird heuer in neun längeren Episoden gehalten. Die Open-Air-Acts erkunden die vitalen Traditionen und vergänglichen Artikulationen von Poesie, Literatur, Performance und sprachbasierten künstlerischen Praktiken. Kuratiert von Daniela Zyman und Boris Ondrei?ka.
EPHEMEROPTERÆ – der Begriff verweist auf eine Spezies von extrem kurzer Lebensdauer – inszeniert flüchtige Erscheinungen von einzelnen und wahrlich außergewöhnlichen Stimmen, die sich mittels des Sprachakts darstellen, diesen in Szene setzen und performativ oder medial artikulieren.
EMILY ROYSDON featuring Morgan Bassichis ?UNCOUNTED (performance 5)?, 2015.
Emily Roysdon is engaged in a series of live events that jump out from her text ?Uncounted”. Over the past few months collaborators have included Gregg Bordowitz, Sharon Hayes, JD Samson, Nick Hallett, Malin Arnell, MPA, Katinka Marac, Rory Pilgrim, and Frederique Bergholtz. For this event she has invited Morgan Bassichis to join her. ?UNCOUNTED (performance 5)? deals with fabrication of time ?beyond the will to measure? (to quote one of the roots of Emily?s text?Gertrude Stein). Roysdon meditates over movements and images, shapes (triangles and waves) and different modes of its performativity. Roysdon asks around: ?What is time if not activism??
?UNCOUNTED (performance 5)? is linked to Roysdon?s Wiener Secession exhibition “Comedy of Margin Theatre” (opening September 10) and will make use of the costumes on display there. This event is made in kind cooperation with Wiener Secession.
http://www.secession.at/art/2015_05_roysdon_e.html
http://emilyroysdon.com/index.php?%2Fprojects%2Funcounted%2F
http://www.morganbassichis.com/
THOMAS RAAB ?THE NETWORK ORANGE?
Yes or no? The Network Orange is a science fiction novel about a computer-maintained society in 2025, but also a defensive response of its author against the already factual complacency in today?s social segments. Finally, it?s done: We are more predictable than ever before and, at the same time, feel more as individuals as ever before! But will a society consisting of partitioned-off groups, the contact of which regularly leads to tribal mistrust and hatred, survive the coming crises? The Network Orange is the first utopian novel renouncing the principle of political ?evil?. Bolstered by statistical forecasting even the eternal stupidity of mankind here nourishes fine entertainment. Yes or no?