* * *PERFORMATIVITY Educational Art Project*
Performativity is one of the leading tendencies in contemporary art. In the context of this project, performativity is a particular type of artistic activity that thematizes temporality; it researches the process of transformation of concepts (nouns) into action (verbs). Project participants are invited into the common experience of performativity as distinct from usual forms of communication, and to provoke social-artistic discussion about the necessity of creating alternative structures for art education. The project, initiated by TanzLaboratorium and supported by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation “Development of Ukraine,” the Polish Institute and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), is aimed at the development of Ukrainian contemporary performing art. It is composed of several interrelating curatorial research projects, each of which includes different kinds of activities, such as laboratories, performances, discussions, lectures, etc., related to a conceptual theme. The project will take place from 27 June – 10 July 2011 in Kyiv. Participants include artists and theorists from Portugal, Russia, Poland, Canada, the USA and Ukraine. Ukraine is facing a crisis of cultural prospects. The degree of development in contemporary art, art education, and so on reflects the country’s overall cultural situation. While there is no lack of artistic production, there is lack of critical reflection that precludes the possibility for a culture of innovation. The strict division of artistic practices into genres still persists from Soviet times. Contemporary art is a phenomenon that transgresses the borderes between genres, disciplines and media, and also has the ability to analyze itself as well as the conditions in which it exists; thus it is capable of influencing the development of cognitive technologies. PERFORMATIVITY Educational Art Project is intended to be a yearly event. This is the first step in creating a continuing alternative art education platform in Ukraine that can expand and change form and location, depending on the needs of the art community and social context. Partners: Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Cultural Project, Kupidon Art Group, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Karas Gallery, Les Kurbas National Theatre Arts Center. More information at performativity.org
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