VERBO 2014 Performance Art Festival – 10th edition July 15 through

VERBO 2014
Performance Art Festival – 10th edition
July 15 through August 9, 2014
Galeria Vermelho
From July 15 through August 9, 2014, Galeria Vermelho is presenting the 10th edition of the performance art show VERBO.
Created in 2005 by Vermelho, VERBO is now in its 10th edition and features actions by artists from Brazil and other countries
(see complete list below).
To discuss questions related to the documentation and recording of actions and performances by way of photos, videos,
musical scores and propositions, their autonomy in time and their status and relevance in the current art system, the program
of the 10th edition of VERBO also includes an exhibition of photos and videos, as well as the 3rd edition of the seminar
“VERBO Conjugado.” Mediated by the show’s artistic director, Marcos Gallon, the four tables that compose the seminar have
been elaborated based on themes related to the recording and documentation of performances and actions. To discuss
questions related with “The Body and Its Image,” the organizers invited choreographer and university professor Juliana
Moraes (Brazil), and photographer and performer Manuel Vason (Italy-England). Curator and director of Videobrasil Solange
Farkas, together with Agnès Violeau, who curated the exhibition Des Choses em Moins, des Choses en Plus – Les Collections
Imaterielles du CNAP, presented recently at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and the artist Maurício Ianês will discuss “Curatorship
and Performance”. The theme of the third table is “Where is the art object? Where is the artist?” presented by gallerist
Jaqueline Martins along with artist and university professor Mario Ramiro. The Brazilian curator residing in Copenhagen, Julia
Rodrigues, and the artist Ana Montenegro will present “Propositions and Scores.” Full program of the festival enclosed.
The Performances
The performances featured at the 10th edition of VERBO were selected with the aim of presenting the public with a panorama
concerning the questions and procedures that make up the lexicon of the artists dedicated to performance today.
The institutional criticism installed at the core of the performance appears in Projeto para Inhotim (2014), by Dora Longo
Bahia, in Las Posiciones by the artist duo Los Torreznos, in Círculos Concêntricos (2013) by Enrique Ježik, and in I can’t hear you
(2014), by Lot Meijers.
The ways in which performance artists have resorted to the use of technological tools like computer programs and devices
that enlarge the limits of the body appear in the performance A representação pornográfica do artista em seu atelier (2014),
by Guilherme Peters, and in Metáfora (2014), by Manuel Vason.
The research into the possibilities and limits of language arise in The Writer (2014), by Maurício Ianês, and in Modelo Vivo
(2014), by Fabio Morais. Collaborative processes based on musical scores and sonic elements appear in Antifonia para Lira e
Serrote (2014), by Ana Montenegro and Wilson Sukorsky, in the concert proposed by the Cão artist collective, composed of
Dora Longo Bahia, Ricardo Carioba, Maurício Ianês and Bruno Palazzo, in Later will be too late (2014), by Nina Glockner, and in
Objects of Desire (2014), by Nina Wijnmaalen. The body of the artist as a catalyzer of energies, expectations and ambitions
arises in AL13FB<3 by Fernando Belfiore.
Questions associated to the construction of identity arise in The dog needs to eat, by Olivia Reschofsky, and in Temporal
Affairs #2, by Rose Akras in partnership with Dutch artists Dirk Jan Jager and Rob Visser.
The final complete list of the artists is given below.
The Exhibition / The Seminar
By recording actions and performances, photography and video make transitory projects perennial and occupy the
intermediate place between the work and its documentation, questioning the role of the institutions and their practices by
shuffling categories such as artwork and document.
The works presented at the exhibition that accompanies VERBO 2014 were created for photographic cameras or video as
autonomous objects, tangible in space and in time. They are recordings of some ephemeral action, remaining as a testimony
of processes carried out by artists in the intimacy of the studio or in public spaces. By registering actions and situations, the
artist makes transitory projects perennial.
In the photographs and films of actions and performances, the artwork is mixed with its documentation. The proof of the
artist’s action is the eye of the camera that recorded a temporary existence. In the case of the performance, this means that
the artist’s direct intervention in the environment supposes the testimony of the image which, when analyzed based on the
dynamics that pervade the art system, challenges the fetishism of the object, accustomed to the expectations of the market
and to the accepted and naturalized idea of what an artwork is. As a work of the moment, the performance acquires
permanence in time by means of its photographic documentation, by videos and films that perennialize the artist’s fleeting
gesture. These works are not defined by way of rigid notions, but rather within a wider conception of the artwork, and they
demand a review of the criteria for its institutionalization. This is what makes these objects determinant for this event, making
their processual and conceptual poetics seminal for contemporary art.
The seminar “VERBO Conjugado” became part of VERBO’s programming in 2008. It aims to establish a field of discussion
concerning current questions in the field of performance and to generate texts for reflection by publishing transcriptions of
these encounters, thus responding to the lack of literature on this theme in Brazil.
The importance acquired by recordings of gestures of artists in photographs and a wide range of technological means
currently constitutes a paradigm in the art system. To discuss these questions, the seminar “VERBO Conjugado” will include
four meetings that will take place on successive Thursdays: on July 17, 24 and 31, and on August 7, starting at 8 p.m., in Room
1 at Gallery Vermelho.
VERBO 2014
Performance Art Show (10th Edition)
ARTISTS: ARTISTAS: Rose Akras (Brasil-Holanda), Keila Alaver (Brasil), Jonathas de Andrade (Brasil) , Iván Argote (Colômbia),
Dora Longo Bahia (Brasil), Marcio Banfi (Brasil), Lenora de Barros (Brasil), Rodrigo Braga (Brasil), Fernando Belfiore (BrasilHolanda), Cris Bierrenbach (Brasil), Cão (Brasil), Henrique Cesar (Brasil), Lia Chaia (Brasil), Edouard Fraipont (Brasil), Nina
Glockner (Holanda), Maurício Ianês (Brasil), Clara Ianni (Brasil), Dirk Jan Jager (Holanda), Enrique Ježik (Argentina-México),
Maija Karhunen (Finlândia), Amal Kenawy (Egito), Cristiano Lenhardt (Brasil), Cinthia Marcelle (Brasil), Jean Meeran (África do
Sul), Lot Meijers (Holanda), Ana Montenegro e Wilson Sukorski (Brasil), Fabio Morais (Brasil), Gisela Motta e Leandro Lima
(Brasil), Hugo Nadeau (Canadá), Guilherme Peters (Brasil), Alice Pons (França), Rosângela Rennó (Brasil), Olivia Reschofsky
(Hungria), Nicolás Robbio (Argentina-Brasil), Marco Paulo Rolla (Brasil), Julian Rosefeldt (Alemanha), LOS TORREZNOS
(Espanha), Manuel Vason (Itália-Inglaterra), Rob Visser (Holanda), Nina Wijnmaalen (Alemanha) and Carla Zaccagnini
(Argentina-Brasil).
OPENING: July 15, at 8 p.m.
PERIOD: July 16 through August 9, 2014
PLACE: Galeria Vermelho / Rua Minas Gerais, 350 / 01244010 – São Paulo – SP – Brazil tel.: +55 11 3138 1520
WEB: http://www.galeriavermelho.com.br/pt/verbo
Further information: [email protected]
FREE ADMISSION
VERBO CONJUGADO
Seminar (3rd edition)
DATE:
July 17, 8 p.m. – “O Corpo e sua Imagem.” With Juliana Moraes and Manuel Vason.
July 24, 8 p.m. – “Curar performance.” With Solange Farkas, Agnès Violeau and Mauricio Ianês.
July 31 – 8 p.m. – “Onde está a obra de arte? Onde está o artista?” With Jaqueline Martins and Mario Ramiro.
August 7 – 8 p.m. – “Propositions and Scores” With Julia Rodrigues and Ana Montenegro.
Mediator: Marcos Gallon
WEB: http://www.galeriavermelho.com.br/pt/verbo
Further information: [email protected]
FREE ADMISSION
Verbo 2014
Performance arte festival (10th ed)
Jul 15 - Aug 09
Galeria Vermelho
FULL PROGRAM
OPENING
Tuesday, Jul 15 (Performances)
8 - 10:30PM
Dora Longo Bahia
Projeto para Inhotim
2014
Performance
Participação de Leo Fernandes
Mauricio Ianês
O Escritor
2014
performance
Fabio Morais
Modelo Vivo
2014
Space for the practice of figure drawing
With: Daniel Fagundes
Title:: Escultura nº 17 da série ASCO
Ana Montenegro e Wilson Sukorski
Antifonia para Lira e Serrote
2014
Performance sonora
Instruments and scores Wilson Sukorski
Manuel Vason
Metáfora
2014
Performance
Wednesday, Jul 16 (Films)
10AM – 7PM
Carla Zaccagnini
Procedures Performed / auto-pilot
2008
vídeo installation
Coreography: Sky Fairchild-Waller
With the flight attendants: Tito Chinchilla, Genevieve Lang, Tanya Montiti, Andrée Julie Tardif, Meagan Vacheresse.
Gravação de voz: Tito Chinchilla, Genevieve Lang, Tanya Montiti, Michelle Oko, Meagan Vacheresse and Carla Zaccagnini
Sound edition: Michael Maranda
Camera: Monica Gutierrez
Produced Emelie Chhangur, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.
Carla Zaccagnini e Nicolás Robbio
Repetición
2008
vídeo, cor e som
Thursday, Jul 17 (Films and Seminar)
10AM – 7PM (Films)
Cristiano Lenhardt
Filmes de Studio
2009
video-instalação 3 à 5 canais, 3 min. Loop
Colaboração Fernanda Gassen
Cortesia Galeria Fortes Vilaça
8 – 10PM (Seminar)
O Corpo e sua Imagem (The Body and its image)
With: Juliana Moraes and Manuel Vason.
Mediation: Marcos Gallon (Artistic director Verbo)
(Port/Eng)
Juliana Moraes (bio) Postgraduation in Dance by UNICAMP, and Professor of Body Languages and Performance Centro
Universitário Belas Artes de SP (São Paulo-Brazil).
Manuel Vason (bio) Born in Padua, Italy in 1974, Manuel Vason’s artistic practice explores the relationship between
photography and performance, presence and representation. He considers the capturing of a moment as an act
of creation, as a ritual towards the illusion of immortality and as an exchange between who is in front and who is
behind the camera. The collaborative nature of his practice shapes a unique hybrid art form and generates new
vocabularies. His collaborations to date have become some of the most iconic images of performance and his work has
been published and presented internationally. He discovered his interest in photography while working in a black and
white professional darkroom. After having assisted some of the most celebrated fashion photographers of his generation
in Milan, New York, Paris, London and Los Angeles, he decided to pursue a Masters degree in Fine Art at Central Saint
Martins at University of the Arts in London. In 2002 he completed and presented two books: Exposures a publication on
the body in Live Art (Black Dog Publishing, 2002) and Oh Lover Boy, a two-year collaboration with artist Franko B (Black
Dog Publishing, 2002). In 2007 Vason’s first solo exhibition Encounters was presented and accompanied by a 230 pages
catalogue (Arnolfini/Cornerhouse). In 2012 he presented Still_Movil an itinerant exhibition of ‘Co-creations’ with 45
Choreographers in South America. In October 2014 he will be launching his latest book project titled ‘Double Exposures’.
Vason is continuously developing a practice integrating different mediums and collaborative methods.
Friday, Jul 18 (Films)
10AM – 7PM
Marco Paulo Rolla
Paisagem (pedras)
2002
Ed Pablo Lobato
Paisagem (folhas)
2002
Ed Pablo Lobato
Paisagem (Areia)
2006
Ed Joacélio Batista
Saturday, Jul 19 (Films)
11AM - 5PM
Enrique Ježik
Estructura construida por policías antiterroristas de las fuerzas especiales y tres armas automáticas
2004
vídeo
Arbeit Macht Frei
2005
vídeo
Ejercicio de Percusión
2006
vídeo
Tuesday, Jul 22 (Performances)
8 - 10PM
Enrique Ježik
Círculos Concéntricos
2013
Ação sonora
Foto: Daniel Castillo Reynoso
Lot Meijers
I can’t hear you
2014
performance
Mauricio Ianês
O Escritor
2014
performance
Fabio Morais
Modelo Vivo
2014
Space for the practice of figure drawing
With: Júlia Rocha
Title:: auto-apropriação
Duration: 02 HR
Wednesday, Jul 23 (Films)
10AM - 7PM
Julian Rosefeldt
Lonely Planet
video
2006
courtesy Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Thursday, Jul 24 (Films and Seminar)
10AM - 7PM (Films)
Jonathas de Andrade
O Levante
2013
Video
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
20 - 22h (Seminar)
Curar performance (To curate Performance)
With Solange Farkas, Agnès Violeau and Mauricio Ianês.
Mediation Marcos Gallon (artistic diretor Verbo)
(Port/Eng)
Solange Farkas (bio) Solange Farkas is the founder and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, headquartered at Sao
Paulo, Brazil. She created and is the chief curator of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, which celebrated in
2013 three decades of fostering, disseminating and mapping of contemporary art, with special attention to the production
of the geopolitical South (Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia,
and Oceania). Within the Festival program, she also brought to Brazil exhibitions of renowned international artists, such as
Akram Zaatari, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Peter Greenaway, Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson and Walid Raad.In addition to the
Festival shows, Farkas has curated exhibitions such as the African Contemporary Art Show (2000), Pan-African
Contemporary Art Show (2005), Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself (2009) and Joseph Beuys – We are the Revolution
(2010-11). In 2012 she curated the show Isaac Julien: Geopoetics, first solo exhibition by the British artist, held at SESC
Pompeia, São Paulo. As guest curator she participated in the 10th Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2011), the 16th
Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011), the 5th Videozone: International Video Art Biennial (Israel, 2010). In 2014, she curated a
special 30 years video program at Georgia State University (Atlanta, USA), and participated as special guest of Global Art
Forum, in Art Dubai (Doha/Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and of RioContentMarket (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), all in 2014. With
Videobrasil, Farkas is also responsible for releasing art publications, commissioning films, TV series, promoting residencies
programs. In the period between 2007 and 2010, she was also the director and chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art
of Bahia (MAM-BA).
Agnès Violeau (bio) Postgraduated from Ecole du Louvre (Museology & Art History) (F) and Cambridge University (GB),
Agnès Violeau is a French independent curator and art critic. IKT active member, she directed project space Site Odéon5
and was chief curator at art center Point Ephemère (Paris). She cofounded art and literature review " J'aime beaucoup ce
que vous faites " dedicated to the process, and the performative cycle "Fiction_ Lectures Performées" at Fondation Ricard
(Paris). Her research concerns essentially the potentiality of language within the visual and performing arts. Since 2010,
Agnès Violeau co-programs the Performances at Louis Vuitton's cultural space (Paris). She has been curating exhibitions
worldwilde such as : Extra-light - Armleder, Verjux, Violette (2008, Point FMR, Paris); Something Will Happen (2011,
Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris) Signs of Life (2012, Nuit Blanche, Montreal); Experienz, live art platform art (2012,
Wiels, Brussels); Something Less, Something More - on the protocol-based collections from CNAP (2014, Palais de Tokyo,
Paris). In 2014 she is invited by the French Institute Deutschland in Berlin as performance curator as well as for the
Symposium The Informed Body at Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart). She teaches museology and researches on curating as an
editorial and discursive practice.
Maurício Ianês (bio) Born in Santos, Brazil, in 1973, and graduated in Fine Arts in 1998 at the Armando Álvares Penteado
Foundation (FAAP), in São Paulo. The artist currently works and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. His work ranges from
performance to installations, objects to sound pieces, video to photography, dealing mostly with issues of language,
communication and relations, more specifically public/artist relations, in an attempt to overcome communication and
language problems that were always part of his research. In 2008, he gained special recognition in his participation at the
28th International São Paulo Biennial with his performance "Untitled (The Kindness of Strangers), in which he lived for 15
days inside the Biennial building, living exclusively of the donations of the public (clothes, food, etc).
Friday, Jul 25 (Performances)
21h
LOS TORREZNOS
Las Posiciones
2012
Performance
Suported by Matadero Madrid
Las Positiones presentation at VERBO 2014 was possible due to the precious collaboration of Embaixada da Espanha no
Brasil – AECID
Saturday, Jul 26 (Films)
11AM - 5PM
Cinthia Marcelle
Automóvel
2012
vídeo, cor e som
Ao Plano
2011
vídeo, cor e som
Tuesday, Jul 29 (Performances)
8AM - 10PM
Fernando Belfiore
Al13FB<3
2014
Dramaturgy: Katarina Bakatsaki, Suzy Blok and Bruno Listopad
Prodution: Dansmakers Amsterdam com suporte de Prins Bernhards Fonds, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, ICK Amsterdam
and Z Zentrum für Proben und Forschung Frankfurt.
Nina Wijnmaalen
Object of Desire
2014
coreografia
Olivia Reschofsky
The Dog Needs to Eat
2014
performance
com Maija Karhunen, Alice Pons e Olivia Reschofsky.
Mauricio Ianês
O Escritor
2014
performance
Fabio Morais
Modelo Vivo
2014
Space for the practice of figure drawing
Title:: Macaquinhos
Action created by: Caio, Mavi Veloso and Yang Dallas.
With: Ana Carolina Pires, Andrez Lean Ghizze , Caio, Eidglas Xavier, Luiz Gustavo Lopes, Rafael Amambahy, Mavi Veloso,
Teresa Moura Neves and Yuri Tripodi
Duration: 02 HR
Thanks to: Núcleo do Dirceu + COMO-clube + Casa Amarela
Wednesday, Jul 30 (Films)
10AM - 7PM
Amal Kenawi
Silence of Sheep
video
Courtesy Amal Kenawy Estate
Thursday, Jul 31 (Films and Seminar
10AM - 7PM (Films)
Rodrigo Braga
Estórias do soldado saco-de-areia (Sandbag Soldier Stories)
2010
Video, som e cor
Fronte (Front)
2010
Video, som e cor
Casulo (Cocoon)
2010
Video, som e cor
8 – 10PM (Seminar)
Onde está a obra de arte? Onde está o artista?
(Where is the Art? Where is the artist?)
With Jaqueline Martins and Mario Ramiro.
Mediation: Marcos Gallon (Artistic director Verbo)
(Port)
Jaqueline Martins (bio) founding member of the eponymous gallery opened in April 2011.
Mario Ramiro (bio) Artist
Friday, Aug 01 (Films)
10AM - 7PM
Iván Argote
Two 50 years old males having emotions
2013
vídeo, som e cor
Iván Argote
Suiza
2012
vídeo, som e cor
Saturday, Aug 02 (Films)
11AM – 5PM
Lia Chaia
Aleph
2013
vídeo, som e cor
Ascensão
2008
vídeo, som e cor
Tuesday, Aug 05 (Performances)
20 - 22H
Hugo Nadeau
Manually
2014
Performance
Apoio: Conseil des Arts et des Lettres Québec e Québec Bureau São Paulo.
Nina Glockner
Later will be too late
2014
performance
Olivia Reschofsky
Bluegorilla
2014
Com Alice Pons e Olivia Reschofsky
Mauricio Ianês
O Escritor
2014
performance
Fabio Morais
Modelo Vivo
2014
Space for the practice of figure drawing
Title:: solo
With: Beatriz Sano and André Menezes
Duration: 25’ each presentation
Wednesday, Aug 06 (Films)
10AM - 7PM
Clara Ianni
Aqui você pode sonhar
2009
vídeo
Haus der Statistik
2012
vídeo
Thursday, Aug 07 (Films e Seminário)
10AM - 7PM (Films)
LOS TORREZNOS
35 minutos
2007
Video
Suported by Seacex, Espanha and Embaixada da Espanha no Brasil – AECID.
8 – 10PM (Seminar)
Event Scores - Sobre Proposições e Partituras
With Ana Montenegro and Julia Rodrigues.
Mediation Marcos Gallon (artistic diretor Verbo)
(Port)
Ana Montenegro (bio) Artist
Julia Rodrigues (bio) Independent Curator
Friday, Aug 08 (Films and Performances)
10AM - 7PM (Films)
Rosângela Rennó
Yangyin Bosphoros da série Turista Transcedental
2011-2012
vídeo, som e cor
Anuloma-Viloma Azteca da série Turista Transcedental
2011
vídeo, som e cor
Uyuni Sutra da série Turista Transcedental
2011
vídeo, som e cor
Kundalini Freedom da série Turista Transcedental
2011
vídeo, som e cor
8 – 10:30PM (Performances)
Rose Akras, Dirk Jan Jager, Rob Visser
Temporal affairs # 2
Conceito: Rose Akras and Dirk Jan Jager
Performance: Rose Akras, Dirk Jan Jager and Rob Visser
Apoio: Reino dos Países Baixos
Cris Bierrenbach
Execução em Cores
2014
performance
Marco Paulo Rolla
Da série Ataque Barroco: Dissolução em manchas acidentais, Esmagamento sensível e Clara evidência.
performance
2014
Saturday, 09 de Aug de 2014 (Encerramento)
20h
Cão
2014
Performance sonora
Voz: Maurício Ianês
Guitarra: Bruno Palazzo
Baixo: Dora Longo Bahia
Bateria eletrônica: Ricardo Carioba