Il weekend della performance alla Galleria Lungomare propone territori di osservazione e di analisi del linguaggio performativo contemporaneo. Il progetto presenta le performance di Ana Borraho & João Galante, Yingmei Duan e Luigi Coppola & Loss Group accomunati dall'interesse di lavorare sull'-estetica della relazione- e sulla partecipazione del pubblico a volte sottile e ironica, a volte esplicita e provocatoria.

Ogni giornata e' aperta da un incontro con gli artisti che presentano i contenuti del loro percorso artistico e approfondiscono le tematiche, le metodologie linguistiche eproduttive utilizzate per la realizzazione dei progetti performativi. All'incontro seguono delle performances, nella maggior parte dei casi prime assolute in Italia o creazioni pensate apposta per la rassegna altoatesina.

Durante i tre giorni ha inoltre luogo un incontro che riunisce esperti, critici e artisti a discutere e a presentare diversi approcci dell'arte performativa ed un workshop formativo di Yingmei Duan e Luigi Coppola finalizzato alla realizzazione di una performance che viene presentata come evento di chiusura.

Programma:

11 - 09 - 2008
19.30 h incontro / Gespräch Luigi Coppola & LOSS
21 - 24 h performance Mistermissmissmister / Ana Borralho & João Galante

12 - 09 - 2008
19.30 h incontro / Gespräch Ana Borralho & João Galante
21 h performance Yingmei Duan & Luigi Coppola
22.30 h performance Meatphysics / Ana Borralho & João Galante

13 - 09 - 2008
19.30 h incontro / Gespräch Yingmei Duan
21 h performance Atti di ordinario esercizio democratico / Luigi Coppola & LOSS
22.30 h performance Yingmei Duan


ANA BORRALHO & JOÃO GALANTE
Ana Borralho and João Galante met each other while they studied visual arts at AR.CO and worked together regularly as actors/co-creators with the theater group OLHO. They live and work in Lisbon and Lagos. They have been working together since 2002, their work has been shown on festivals in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Scotland, Germany and Brazil.
João Galante and Ana Borralho must not only be regarded as a duo of artists, but as an actual couple, an essential feature to understand their work. A duo implies, or at least, admits a conjugation of forces, while in this couple such conjugation turns into one. It is not purposeless that we never see them performing face to face. The face-to-face of Galante-Borralho stands for a couple facing an audience. The work of Galante-Borralho is not two-in-one, but a unity separated in two bodies. The identification of the one implies the iconography comprehended by the other. No obverse without reverse.

LUIGI COPPOLA & LOSS
Luigi Coppola, as an interdisciplinary performance / contemporary theatre artist, works in solo project and takes part in several collaboration project in visual art and theatre/dance context. He is director of Italian performing arts group LOSS. He has approached research along unconventional and crossover paths in terms of disciplines and areas of research. He trained both as a scientist (graduation in Engineering) as well as in the art field (Performing Art with specialization in Theory and New Media), looking for an approach as open as possible to researches about our contemporaneousness. His projects participated at large number of national and international artistic residencies, festivals and exhibitions. Collaborator at Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.

YINGMEI DUAN
Yingmei Duan was born in China. She works as an artist in performance, installation and video in Braunschweig. Yingmei Duan belongs to the Chinese Avant-garde, which positioned itself in the 90's in the artist colony East Village in Beijing. 1995 she participates in the famous performance
-To add one meter to an anonymous mountain-.
To develop herself artistically, she goes to Germany on 1998. 2006 she finished herPostmaster studies with Marina Abramovic, Birgit Hein and Christoph Schlingensief at Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig.
Since 1993 she has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, festivals and workshops, e.g. Braziers International Artists Workshop in England 2003, 1st Performance festival in Salzau 2005, etc. Likewise she has taken part of multiples exhibitions from the IPG (Independent Performance Group), curated by Marina Abramovic, e.g. PAC Milan 2003, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 2005 and the Venice Biennale 2007. Yingmei Duan's performances, installations and videos deal with aspects from the daily life: memories, fears, longings and dreams