A Performance Affair - The Second Edition: re:production
05 sep. 2019 - 08 sep. 2019
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Espace Vanderborght - Rue de l'Ecuyer 1000
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A Performance Affair (APA) is a dynamic platform for performance art that stimulates discussions and discourse around the economies of performance. APA aims to provide a full spectrum of relevant content to a public audience while offering artists, gallerists, curators, and collectors an arena in which to discuss the unique challenges that surround this sector and play. A Performance Affair is not another art fair, but a flexible stage geared towards stimulating the acquisition of performance art while finding solutions for its development and sustainability.
Following The Panopticon, APA’s inaugural edition last September, this second edition entitled: re:production will transform the second and third floors of the Vanderborght Building in Brussels into an open space designed for artists and their collaborators to present new and historical works to the public, including potential collectors, in a wide range of formats. re:production will attempt to determine the key elements necessary to perform, transcribe, document, transfer ownership and restage a performance. What is the collectable matter of a performance? How do the protocols, scenarios, recordings, or artefacts relate? re:production will question and challenge the ephemeral nature of performance, the ethics of documentation, and ascertain how video and other means of representation can benefit the discipline.
Visitors to APA’s re:production will become participants in an augmented environment showcasing live content both throughout the space and online. The experience will allow visitors to draw distinctions between the performance itself, its live broadcast and recording, any objects or residue, and also the archiving of the work to attain a better understanding of the complex web of the participants, institutions, and rights that can advance this fragile form of expression.
The APA Bureau
A common area designated The APA Bureau will be dedicated for planned and impromptu meetings around the economic aspects and protocols of performance, where key players can all gather to discuss aspects such as the acquisition, dissemination, and preservation of performance art today.
The Departure / Arrival Board (D/AB)
Activities during re:production will be tracked in real time on the D/AB and broadcast live on APA’s two YouTube Channels. Short and long durational Performances will overlap throughout the venue creating dialogues between works within an immersive environment filled with a performances to discover.
Selection Committee
Adam Budak, chief curator of the National Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic)
Ellen de Bruijne, gallerist (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Aaron Cezar, founding director of Delfina Foundation (London, UK)
Frédéric de Goldschmidt, collector (Brussels, Belgium)
Iordanis Kerenidis & Piergiorgio Pepe, collectors (Paris, France)
ORLAN, artist (Paris, France)
Chantal Pontbriand, art curator, critic, and art consultant (Montreal, Canada)
A Performance Affair seeks to place key players in the same arena and around the same table, while presenting all of the activities on the APA channels throughout the Affair. Ultimately, the event aims to stimulate the purchase of performance art by conceiving and showing works that can be acquired during its events.
A Performance Affair is a Brussels based non-profit association with international outreach. Conceived and founded by Liv Vaisberg and Will Kerr, APA aims at gathering all players interested in the economies of performance. Events are open to the public and free of charge.
Espace Vanderborght
Rue de l'Ecuyer 1000
Propriété de la Ville de Bruxelles, cet édifice à la large vitrine se dresse en plein centre de Bruxelles, à deux pas des célèbres Galeries royales Saint-Hubert et à peine plus loin de la Grand-Place. Il occupe un espace impressionnant de 6 000 mètres carrés de surface utile, répartis sur 5 étages. Construit au profit des « Nouveaux Établissements Vanderborght Frères », négoce en mobilier (tapis, bibelots, mobilier de jardin, literie, etc.), l’édifice est conçu par un tandem habitué à travailler ensemble : les architectes Govaerts et Van Vaerenbergh, auteurs également de la maison d’Alice et David van Buren — actuel musée van Buuren. Le chantier, entamé en 1932, prend fin en 1935. De style moderniste, la conception de l’immeuble est dénuée de tout ornement et privilégie la fonction. Remarquable par ses larges vitrines permettant une grande visibilité, chaque étage est constitué d’un grand un plateau de béton modulable, grâce à un système de cloisons coulissantes sur rail. Le bâtiment se distingue encore par ses terrasses, lieu d’exposition des meubles de jardin mais aussi de détente — on peut y prendre un thé à l’époque ! Le magasin tombe en faillite en 1980. Les Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts ont envisagé d’y transférer leurs collections d’art moderne et contemporain, mais le projet restera sans suite. Le lieu abrite aujourd’hui de nombreuses expositions, principalement centrées sur l’art contemporain. Trois grands rendez-vous sont ainsi programmés chaque année : - Carte de Visite ARTopenKUNST en février, une expo dédiée aux artistes amateurs et professionnels qui habitent ou travaillent sur la Ville de Bruxelles. Plus de 200 artistes envahissent tout le bâtiment pendant un weekend. http://cartedevisite.brussels/ - The Independent en avril, une foire d’art contemporain newyorkaise qui a posé ses valises à Bruxelles. http://independenthq.com/ - Strokar en mai, une exposition dédiée au Street Art et à la photographie qui rassemble des artistes bruxellois et internationaux. http://strokar.be/ Par ailleurs d’autres expositions non récurrentes y trouvent place, ouvertes au plus grand nombre et proposant un prix très accessible.
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