Small Inner Spaces V
Uncanny Silences – Performative Mutness
selon Gina Pane
Action Autoportrait(s), mise en condition / contraction / rejet, 11. janvier 1973
Symposium: Le son dans l‘art performance – une épistémologie Intermédia
[Pleine association en mode composé*]
Musée des beaux arts & d`archéologie, Besançon
6. April 2022
Material:
Teil I Powerpoint Präsentation, Textkarten
Teil II, Spotlicht, Notenständer, Score, Streichhölzer
Dauer: 30‘
Uncanny Silences – Performative Muteness focuses on a voice that cannot be heard because it is held back, suppressed. A voice that evokes an uncanny silence. A performative muteness, a silence that can be felt, a physical silence, an audible absence that makes all the sounds stand out all the more.
At the center of Small Inner Spaces V is the performance „mise en condition“, „the conditioning“ from January 11th, 1973 by Gina Pane, the French born performance artist who lived and worked in Paris and was a member of the 1970s Body Art movement „Art corporel“. The following description of „the conditioning“ commenting on the series of photographs of the performance underlines the silence in which the action took place, highlighting the spreading of the muteness: “In The Conditioning Pane enters a room with a metal bedframe positioned over two rows of burning candles. She lies fully clothed atop the frame and does not move or speak.“ The photographs documenting the performance at the Rodolphe Stadler Gallery in Paris built the basis of Small Inner Spaces V.
Performance Score
