ANYMOUS PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL XI., Plzeň

Festival akčního umění v ulicích Plzně
art project for urban & internet public spaces
17. - 21.5. 2010
www.anymous.com

Festival se koná za finanční podpory:
Statutární město Plzeň, kandidát na titul Evropské hlavní město kultury 2015
Nadace pro současné umění Praha
Plzeňský kraj
Nadace Život umělce

PRACOVNÍ VERZE 18.5.2010
(akce jsou určené náhodným kolemjdoucím a proběhnou v historické části Plzně – začátky akcí a místa nejsou záměrně udávány - jde o akční formu výtvarného umění nikoli o divadlo!)

May 18th Úterý/Tuesday
Vchod do Bartoloměje na náměstí, 10:00 Tim Bromage (UK) – Pechod

Performance manifestation drawing upon personal mythologies and john bunyans book 'Pilgrims Progress'.
U Branky, 12:00 Viktória Világ (HUNGARY) – Social Transformation
Interactive action against poverty. Progging money, food or just attention. Giving, gift.......... the life is the biggest gift.
U Branky, 14:00 Christine Brault (CANADA) – Your space or mine?
To touch, repulse, seduce, reject... How may one penetrate the other's intimate space? A red-veiled "bubble" will slowly wander on the streets seeking contact.
Před Bohemkou, 16:00 anti-cool (JAPAN) – work in progress

May 19th Středa/ Wednesday
12:00 Werther Germondari (ITALY) – Un solo alone
14:00 Christine Brault (CANADA) – Threading spaces
An invitation to passers-by to weave a new form of language, to pierce needle and thread through a blue-veiled "bubble" worn by the artist herself while walking on the streets.
16:00 Bean (UK) – Solace In Motion // europa
Un/doing in circles of osmosis. the middle way Fathom fuck meditation in power|control.

May 20th Čtvrtek/ Thursday
12:00 Werther Germondari (ITALY) – Finish line
14:00 Christine Brault (CANADA) – Threading spaces
(continuation of May 19th’s performance)
16:00 Ignacio Pérez Pérez (VENEZUELA) – So close, so far (I), (5 hours)

May 21st Pátek/ Friday
15:00 Shima (BRAZIL) – BLIND (60 minutes)

May 21st Pátek/ Friday 17:00 Vernisáž / Vernissage

Galerie města Plzně, náměstí Republiky 40

Tim Bromage (UK) – Bad Teef (live performance), Christine Brault (CANADA) – Your space or mine? (live performance), burningboy (CZ) – electro beat K vidění bude pásmo projekcí záznamů všech realizovaných performancí za účasti autorů. Projekci uvede Michal Krysl, kurátor festivalu.

Tim Bromage (UK) – Bad Teef: Continuing a body of work exploring clowning and cultural stereotypes, the performance references sleight of hand magic and the often close proximity between good and evil.

ANYMOUS (CZ)
www.anymous.com/tv
Akce si berou za cíl nastolení „jiné reality“ ve veřejném prostoru formou vizualizací, satiry a nejrůznějších intervencí. Demonstrují svobodné vyjádření a kreativitu nezávislého performera, jehož veřejná intimita je v protikladu s anonymitou davu a působí tak diverzně k současnému konsenzu, stejně jako podněcováním senzuálního vnímání na úkor racionálního.

Werther Germondari (ITALY)
www.werthergermondari.com
I Graduated in Art & Performance at the Bologna University and at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. I'm interested in innovative experimental dynamics that are neo-conceptual and situational, characterized by a taste for the ironic and surreal. I have experimented for 25 years through many different expressive media (from painting to installations, photography to film, videos to performance) and I've been invited to participate in many important international group shows and my works have also been shown in solo exhibitions, where I focuses on hidden elements highlighted in styles, sometimes in a goliard spirit.

Bean (UK)
www.bean-live.com
Desire lies in organic territory, my dis/placement within it and challenging boundries through physical action; testing and tying body and mind through duration Exploring the relationship between material, body, time, quantity and fact. Mapping connections, traces and bad science; crude, ugly and beautiful; Working out the work during the work

Christine Brault (CANADA)
Christine Brault lives and works in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). She practices performance based on relational aesthetics seeking people’s participation. She created in situ and performative actions in Canada, France, Holland, USA (NYC) and China, most of the projects were realized through artist residencies.
For Pilsen’s Anymous Performance Festival, Brault will try to penetrate the “Other”’s personal space using various strategies and ways to stimulate and provoke encounters. Wearing an elliptical shaped “bubble” made of veil, she will slowly thread her way though the crowd and attempt to “connect” through a series of performatives actions with passers-by to “knock” their informal territory by touching, leaning on their invisible ”bubble”, a shield we cannot see but sense.

Viktória Világ (HUNGARY)
www.myspace.com/victoriaworld
Viktória Világ lives to challenge the real life and to be a mirror for you, for the society. She uses to act and organize performances all over the world. The Action Company Intermedial Association is founded by her and international artists.

Tim Bromage (UK)
Born in Suffolk, Tim Bromage studied fine art at Cardiff School of Art and Design. Since graduating in 2004 he has continued to live and work in Wales, exhibiting at both a national and international level. Primarily taking inspiration from biblical verse and the industrial workplace, his performance explores notions of sin, penance and redemption.
Themes of magic and machismo are also recurrent within these works, as is the use of costume referencing personal mythologies and cultural stereotypes. Often ambiguous in their meaning, they can be seen as both ridiculous and unsettling.

Milan Kohout (USA)
http://www.mobius.org/artist/milan-kohout
MILAN KOHOUT (now a US CITIZEN) is originally from The Czech Republic. Here he got his M.S. IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. He was an independent artist in so-called "Second Culture". Later he becomes a signatory member and art activist of the dissident human rights organization CHARTER 77 (this organization was composed of mostly artists, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1985 and initiated non violent Velvet Revolution which toppled totalitarian regime in 1989). Following many interrogations and several imprisonments HE WAS FORCED BY CZ. SECURITY POLICE TO LEAVE HIS COUNTRY in 1986 due to his political art activism.

anti-cool (JAPAN)
Performance artist anti-cool was born in Kanagawa, Japan, and has presented more than 10 countries in the last 10 years. Recent presentations include: SONG SHOW ( Canada), The National Review of Live Art (UK), Experimentica at Chapter Art Centre (UK), Glasgow International (UK), M1 Singapore Fringe Festival at Singapore Art Museum ( Singapore), CAFKA05X Industria ( Canada), Cultural Studies Wien at Museum Quarter 21 and Platform Kunst for the programme of the Japan-European Union Year ( Austria). anti-cool’s works explore how people can conquer the boundaries and rules with which they surround themselves. Through communication with those present, she tries to find solutions in order to break through people’s self-imposed limits.

Ignacio Pérez Pérez (VENEZUELA)
www.antesdenadaydespuesdetodo.net
Performance artist, organizer and independent researcher. Since 2002 has presented solo and collective performance art works in various festivals and events in Venezuela, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Poland, Germany, Chile and Canada. Currently, along with Aidana Rico, is General Director of PERFORMANCELOGÍA, an independent organization dedicated to develop a web archive (www.performancelogia.org) and produce events based in Caracas, Venezuela. He likes tigers and palindromes.