ÜBUNG EXERCISE No. 9 — is melting choir

* 1 flyer LEGS Zurich 2016 | 2+3 flyer launching of internetplatform of PANCH | 4 Corner College, photo from the internet *

LEGS history

LEGS has legs. LEGS is a manifestation of the social and performing body through the collective network and expanded community.

The first iteration of LEGS was presented in our sister performance art network in Montreal on February 7, 2015, at Le Cercle Carré. The score and format of the event was initially imagined by an informal collective of artists* (including Christian Bujold, Michelle Lacombe, Marie-Claude Gendron, Nadège Grebmeier Forget, Katherine-Josée Gervais and Jean- Philippe Luckurst- Cartier) and was created with the intention of activating and making visible the often fragmented local performance art community.

LEGS, TOO in Toronto was initiated by FADO Performance Art Centre (www.performanceart.ca) on October 3, 2015. The custodians of this iteration were Shannon Cochrane and Adriana Disman. There was a LEGS transmitter (from the authoring collective and a performer from the first LEGS in Montreal) present at the event.

Offered as an antidote to Toronto's annual all-night 'art thing' Nuit Blanche, LEGS, TOO was an all- day performance art relay. The form of the event was dictated by a chosen duration (in this case 8 hours), which was then divided equally by the number of performance artists* from the local community who had chosen to participate. Participating artists* were invited by other participating artists*, snowballing a self-organizing event that is disinterested in traditional curation. Founded on a belief in community trust, performative dialogue and artistic self-determinancy, the resulting collective event lets participating artists be responsible not only for the continuous stream of idea- and image-making, but also for the realiation of event itself. There is no staff, no coordinator, no stage manager, only artists*.
 
LEGS performance - WHAT IS LEGS
Basel 2017 | Giswil 2017 | Olten 2016 | Montréal 2015 | Toronto 2015 | Zürich 2016

LEGS Zurich 2016 and further LEGS in Switzerland

LEGS Zurich 2016 has been the first edition of LEGS in Switzerland and Europe.
transmitter,organizer : Dorothea Rust in collaboration with Dimitrina Sevova.  
flyer LEGS ZURICH 2016

further LEGS editions in Switzerland
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LEGS Performance-Festival, Sunday, 20 November 2016, 11—18h
Tattarletti-Inzwischen Kulturplatz, Aarauerstrasse 55, 4600 Olten
Transmitter / Organiser : Monica Germann 
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LEGS Performance-Festival, Saturday 22 April 2017, 11—18.30h
Performance Art Giswil 2017, LEGS — Zentralschweiz, Turbine Giswil
Transmitter / Organiser : Andrea Saemann and Judith Huber
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LEGS Basel — ein Performance-Event, Saturday 17 June 2017, 11—18h
Ausstellungsraum Klingental
Transmitter / Organiser : Maricruz Peñaloza and Olivia Wiederkehr

the location of the happening LEGS ZURICH 2016

Corner College is located in Zurich's district 4 and is an independent project space for new and experimental formats of exhibition making with a focus on research and process-oriented contemporary art, quasi-academic knowledge production, and the promotion of discursive forms of contemporary art and theory in dialogue with urban processes, society, technologies, research, and transdisciplinarity. CC activates a space of micropractices and public participation echoing in a network of local and global exchange. Corner College has always been closely associated with a young and experimental art scene.