segunda-feira, 12 de outubro de 2009

Kartoffelessen (Jantar de Batatas) - Performance Mahony group



Beco da Arte convida para palestra performática do grupo MAHONY (Viena-Austria).

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“Kartoffelessen” ou em livre tradução: Jantar de batatas, é uma plataforma de ação performática que o grupo vem desenvolvendo desde 2008. Transitando entre palestra, performance e jantar, “Kartoffelessen” é um momento de extroversão e troca sobre as praticas artísticas desenvolvidas pelo grupo. Antes de São Paulo, “Kartoffelessen” já foi apresentado em Londres,Viena,Ushuaia e Buenos Aires.

Sobre o Grupo:
Formado em 2002 em Viena por: Stephan Kobatsch, Jenny Wolka, Andreas Duscha e Clemens Leuschner, MAHONY desenvolve projetos de performances, intervenções e instalações site-specific. Tendo participado de inúmeras exposições pelo mundo, dentre elas: Liste 09 (Basel Suíça) e 2º Bienal do Fim do Mundo (Ushuaia)


English


on mahony
The artist group mahony was founded in 2002 by Stephan Kobatsch, Jenny Wolka, Andreas Duscha and Clemens Leuschner. All four currently live and work in Vienna.
Most of our work consists of in situ installations and performance interventions, where the preparatory process is an important aspect and becomes an integral part of the work presented. Objects and pictures are integrated into the installational arrangement of a work, and in addition, some elements of objects and photographs also have a documentary function, if the work has only a temporary existence.
The dynamics and conceptual approach of the group requires various styles and media. Specific information about the particular themes is used to locate its own work on the borderline between fact and fiction and thus create new ways of accessing known phenomena.
(Adriana Marquez, curator Austrian Cultural Forum, London)
For some time now we have been concerned with the phenomenon of travel, which interests us for its historical origins and also for its socio-cultural and political consequences. In reciprocal effects of actual performance and conceptual approach we analyse forms and motifs in order to draw a complex picture of travel as cultural practice.

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