Angelika Fojtuch, Vabangue, Santiago, Chile, 2010. Photo by David von Blohn. Source: FOI
Three Polish artists of three generations are part of a unique Asian initiative to explore the state and development of performance art across the world
Angelika Fojtuch, Noah Warsaw and Waldemar Tatarczuk join performance artists from Vietnam and China for a series of workshops and discussions on movement, gesture, memory, isolation, connection, society and politics
This year marks the eighth edition of the event, which aims to address the concerns and aspirations of the performance art world, particularly in Singapore. It also aims to promote performance and time-based art. The event presents live performance art presentations, along with solo performances and other ways of interpreting reality in a poetic form. A series of workshops and symposia address the ways in which to reflect the timeliness of this form, while also addressing the political implications of performance, including Waldemar Tatarczuk's workshop on Time, Gesture and Memory and the collective symposium Solid Air - Comparative reflections on the intertwining of performance art and politics.
Angelika Fojtuch (born 1978) is an international visual artist and performance artist whose works have been shown at exhibitions in festivals in Japan, Canada, China, Chile, Russia, Greece and her native Poland. She has drawn her art education from the Academy of Fine Arts in Toruń, Kraków, Poznań and Gdańsk and graduated from the Department of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Art in Gdańsk in 2005. Last year she represented Poland at the NADA Art Fair in Miami, Vienna Fair and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She conducts workshops in performance art, working to create a forum for the genre through publications and her Port Performance project. She refers to feminist issues in her art, drawing upon themes of biology, physiology, mania and exclusion. See more at www.angelikafojtuch.net
Noah Warsaw (born 1947) studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and from the early 70s, Warsaw was active in Polish movement of independent culture (A-B Group, Student Centre Dziekanka, Warsaw), which promotes the idea of education in creative process.
Since 2009, working under the name of Noah Warsaw, he promotes Art Fore-Ground to initiate new fields of creative activity as alternative education across the world and exploring the paradigms of corporality and the senses. See more at www.noahwarsaw.pl
Waldemar Tatarczuk (born 1964) is a performance and installation artist, as well as art curator based in Lublin. He is also the founder and curator of Performance Art Centre in Lublin (1999-2010), and is currently the Director of Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin (since 2010).
He has been active as a performance artist since 1988, taking part in performance art events throughout Europe and Asia including: Infraction Paris, in France; Navinki Festi- val in Minsk. Belarus; Asiatopia Festival, Bangkok, Thailand, KIPAF, Seoul, South Korea, and Differences Festival, Warsaw, Poland. His curatorial projects include the EPAF European Performance Art Festival in Warsaw and Performance Art Days in Kiev and Lviv. See more at waldemartatarczuk.blogspot.com
Future of Imagination 8 takes place at the Goodman Arts Centre in Singapore, curated by Jason Lim and Kai Lam, experts in the field of performance art. It runs between the 31st - 5th of August 2012. The Solid Air Symposium takes place on the 5th of August at the Singapore Art Museum (2:00 pm - 5:00 pm).
Featured artists: Zhou Bin (China) (Poland) (Poland) (Poland) APPENDIX: An Huy Nguyen (Vietnam) Duc Minh Hoang (Vietnam) Ngo Thanh Bac (Vietnam) Nguyen Song (Vietnam) Nguyen Duong Hai Dang (Vietnam) Tran Luong (Vietnam) Toan Duc Vu (Vietnam) Andree Weschler (France/Singapore) Jason Lee (Singapore) Jeremy Hiah (Singapore) Kelvin Atmadibrata (Indonesia/Singapore) Marla Bendini (Singapore) Rubin Hashim (Singapore) Vincent Chow (Malaysia/Singapore)
For more information and a full programme of events, see: www.foi.sg and www.goodmanartscentre.sg
Thumbnail credit: Noah Warsw, "To leave Europe", Goryeong, South Korea, 2010. Photo by Shim, Young-chul
Editor: Agnieszka Le Nart
Source: Future of Imagination, own sources