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After 14 years, Andrea Saemann returns to the Kaserne Basel. This time with a solo, a lecture performance that approaches her own archive. There, memories, past performances, and the desire for reduction and excess lurk, confronting world events through the medium of art.
The focus is on encounters of various kinds: with Terminator 1+2, the performance artists Carolee Schneemann and Joan Jonas, with Otari, who fled Abkhazia and lived in Tskaltubo, and with Clara von Bodman, who took matters into her own hands to secure her husband a place in the literary canon.
Once again, you in the audience are invited to let your attention sink into the most diverse layers of this interplay of pre-produced videos and simultaneous stage action. It's performance time. Breath by breath.
Duration: ca. 80 min.
Biografie
Andrea Saemann is a performance artist, networker, and curator. After studying at the HfbK Hamburg from 1989 to 1994, she organized and curated various festivals, such as the Performance Saga Festivals and Translocal Performance Art Giswil. From 2011 to 2017, she coordinated the Swiss Performance Prize. She is co-founder of the Performance Art Network Switzerland (PANCH), collects texts on performance art on ApresPerf.ch, and has been part of the Revolving Histories team since 2021, creating access to translocal performance art in Switzerland through research, exhibitions, and publications.
Credits
Konzept, Performance: Andrea Saemann
Begleitung: Barbara Ellenberger
Video & Editing: Muda Mathis, Christoph Oertli, Andrea Saemann, Sus Zwick
In Koproduktion mit der Kaserne Basel und unterstützt von: Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BS/BL, Ernst Göhner Stiftung