43 artists have been selected out of more than 2.300 submissions from 84 countries under the heading PERFORM! for the exhibition of VIDEONALE.16 at Kunstmuseum Bonn
Jury VIDEONALE.16: Alexander Basile (Artist, Cologne), Dr. Julia Draganovic (Director of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück), Katrin Mundt (Freelance Curator, Bochum), Tasja Langenbach (Artistic Director of Videonale), Tobias Yves Zintel (Artist, Berlin/Cologne), Nicole Yip (Director, LUX Scotland)
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For the second year running, the Videonale has a specific thematic focus. Under the heading ‘PERFORM!’, VIDEONALE.16 revisits the beginnings of video technology in its relation artistic performance, as both a means of documentation and a kind of technological double. It asks after the meaning of video performance in the contemporary world, in which not only artists, but also often the spectators play the role of performers in artistic works.
In addition, PERFORM! refers to the way in which performance has come to dominate all aspects of our lives. Whether consciously or unconsciously, our lives have become a kind of permanent performance: through our constant interaction with digital devices, in which we inevitably leave behind traces of ourselves; through the constant demand for self-presentation online; and through the demand for our self-optimization as economic subjects. Our every movement has become a choreographed performance, staged in public spaces over which we have very little control.
Under the heading PERFORM!, VIDEONALE.16 calls into question the idea of performance as a social, economic, cultural and artistic maxim in the context of the globalized world and our modern meritocratic societies.