Caring About (Data).

How to deal with sensitive data and documentation within socially engaged performance art

Artists: Marin Shamov, Ailsa Li & Phoebe Wong, Joanna Zabielska
Curation: Performatorium (Olivia Jaques/Marlies Surtmann)
Performances (24.-25.05.) and Exhibition: 24.05. – 29.05.2024

Performance Programme:
Fr 24.05.2024
17:00 Opening Exhibition
18:00 Awareness Walk I by Marin Shamov(starting @Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory)
19:30 Wrap by Ailsa Li & Phoebe Wong (performance @Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory)

Sat 25.05.2024,
12:00 Opening Exhibition
13:00 Design of the Anonymous by Joanna Zabielska, public space close to Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory
15:00 Awareness Walk II by Marin Shamov, public space (starting at Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory

Opening Hours Exhibition:
Sat 25.06.2024, 12:00–16:00
Mon 27.06.2024, 16:00–19:00
Tue 28.06.2024, 11:00–14:00

The programme Caring About (Data) brings together three positions of socially engaged performance art and deals with the topic of transferring social relations into an exhibition setting. How can at times personal, (politically) sensitive and fragile social encounters that arise in a socially engaged (art) project be translated into a work of art? What knowledge, what information, what data is intended for the public and what is too sensitive to be carried beyond individual interaction? What does this self-censorship mean for the transmission of this art form? The three artistic positions, Marin Shamov, Ailsa Li & Phoebe Wong and Joanna Zabielska, outline different strategies on how to deal with these questions. The artists met first at Raw Matters – Tender Steps Residency (2023), their individual works in progress being mentored by Olivia Jaques, Charlotta Ruth and Marlies Surtmann in the framework of the artistic research project Archives in Practice (2023). At Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory they are invited to go public with their socially engaged performance works.