9 questions
Subtitle: an artist project
By: by Gustaf Broms
Publisher: FADO Performance Art Centre
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9780973088342; 9789163984600
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Performance art; Themes, motives; Artists; Interviews; Art; Philosophy; Modern Art
Other titles: Nine questions; Artist project
Description: In 2014, Swedish performance and visual artist Gustaf Broms composed a list of nine questions that he started to circulate to fellow performance artists, many he had a personal connection with and many more he had never even met. The questions covered a range of paired concepts, the bricks and mortar of performance practice (material/object, audience/receiver, sound/silence, time/rhythm, space/emptiness), and grounded by questions about personal experience, lineage and language. The impulse to gather this collection arose from a conversation Broms had had with another artist; but what makes this volume first and foremost an artist's project is that the questions are asked from the specific perspective of Broms' deep personal understanding that, as a practice, performance resides at the permeable borders between the conscious and subconscious, and the meeting of the concrete world of form and the spiritual realm. For Broms, these are the essential questions. The responses collected are as diverse and wide-ranging as the artists and their own approaches, from the practical, to the abstract to the simply far-flung, in addition to some reassuring and surprising overlapping ideas and connections.
Notes: Artists include: Adina Bar-On, Alastair MacLennan, Andrea Saemann, Antoni Karwowski, Arahmaiani, Artur Tajber, Barbara T. Smith, Bartolomé Ferrando, Boris Nieslony, Brian Connolly, Dorothea Rust, Elvira Santamaria-Torres, Esther Ferrer, Fausto Grossi, Guadalupe Neves, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gustaf Broms, He Yunchang, hermann nitsch, Irma Optimist, Jamie McMurry, Jill Orr, Johanna Householder, John Duncan, Kurt Johannessen, Leif Elggren, Linda Mary Montano, Macarena Perich Rosas, Margaret Dragu, Mariel Carranza, Marilyn Arsem, Martha Wilson , Monika Günther & Ruedi Schill, Myriam Laplante, Nigel Rolfe, Nobuo Kubota, Paul Couillard, Pekka Kainulainen, Rocio Boliver, Roi Vaara, Ron Athey, Serge Olivier Fokoua, Shannon Cochrane, Stelarc, Tanya Mars, Tehching Hsieh, Tomas Ruller, Ulay, Valentin Torrens, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Zhu Ming