Exposição Coletiva para um Único Corpo: A Composição Privada
typ výstavy: kolektivní
místo konání: Galerias Municipais – Galeria Quadrum
termín: 2021/09/16 - 2021/10/24
poznámka:
Preface and postface with films by Josef Dabernig, Anna Daučíková, Dóra Maurer and Artur Żmijewski.
Curator: Pierre Bal-Blanc
Choreographer: Manuel Pelmuş
Performers: Jack Hauser, Luisa Lasdg, João dos Santos Martins, Adriano Vicente
“Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score” was commissioned by Kontakt Collection and co-produced by Tanzquartier Wien. It was first activated in 2019 in Vienna.
The exhibition “Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score”, which took place at Galerias Municipais in Lisbon, featured works from the Kontakt Collection and included a major group of performance-based art works from former Eastern Europe that have never before been exhibited or performed in Portugal. Having escaped commercial circulation (i.e., the private art market), these artworks and performances sought to resist the ideological conformism of their time and context.
After presentations in Vienna and Leuven (Belgium), “Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score” was originally intended to take place on and around Rua do Poço dos Negros in Lisbon's Misericórdia neighbourhood. This street name is possibly linked to the existence of a royal letter from "D. Manuel I", dated 13 November 1515, and addressed to the city of Lisbon. He writes about the necessity to build a well to deposit the bodies of dead slaves, especially during pandemics. This measure, taken at the time of Portugal's imperial expansion, here was meant to refer to the contemporary crisis of COVID-19, which subjects bodies to a sanitary regime. After having been abandoned in recent years by its inhabitants and traders, Rua do Poço dos Negros has experienced a revival of interest by investors and tourists. The score thus meant to address the colonial history of Lisbon (monuments, urban history) and the development of an Airbnb paradise, in which the residents have felt a push towards the periphery.
Due to regulations in place to contain the current epidemic it was impossible to generate the historical and political links offered by a lively street in downtown Lisbon. The choice was therefore to gather around the modernist Coruchéus complex in Alvalade and in the gardens of Quadrum Gallery, featuring a group of local performers: Luisa Lasdg, João dos Santos Martins, Adriano Vicente.
The transmission of gestures and the mediation of postures initiated by the artists from the former socialist countries gathered in "Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score" require particular attention towards the context in which their movements are replayed. This sensual as well as intellectual participation requires connecting these actions to the social bodies and the cultural environment that receives them.
The performers were trained to perform the gestures of the works from "Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score" by artist and choreographer Manuel Pelmuş and were joined by performer Jack Hauser who activated the score during its first iteration in Vienna in 2019.
“Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – Lisboa 2021” was supported by Kontakt Collection, Vienna, Institut Français Portugal, OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Embassy of Austria in Lisbon, Romanian Cultural Institute – Lisbon.
