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* 1 poster BANG BANG exhibition | images 2 + 3 view of exhibition | 4 + 5 + 6 pages from online-Megazin 2 'Ausbruch aus den Medien *

BANG BANG translocal hi:stories of performance art
8 June – 21 August 2022
An exhibition project by Revolving Histories/Performance Chronik Basel and Museum Tinguely

All summer long, Museum Tinguely will be celebrating performance art in the show BANG BANG - translocal hi:stories of performance art. At the heart of this process-oriented exhibition is the Swiss performance scene, its players, and its networks, although the programme will be international in character.

The incredibly rich history of the medium will be presented in a unique kaleidoscope of video installations, performances, photos, and texts. BANG BANG will chart the development of performance art and redraw the contours of this constantly changing discipline. As a festival of performance art, BANG BANG is subdivided into seven thematic chapters, which on seven weekends will combine live performances, discussions, and presentations involving audiences, artists, scholars, and the museum. Whether spectacular or low-key, BANG BANG promises to be an unforgettable live experience at Museum Tinguely and the surrounding

exhibitions | cartes blanches

In the course of the summer, three artistic positions will be shown in their own exhibition spaces in the area of the main exhibition, alternating on a monthly basis:
Porte Rouge | Joa Iselin, Christoph Ranzenhofer
Sarina Scheidegger, Participants: Jimena Croceri, Ariane Koch, Kambiz Shafei, Alexandra Stähli, Anina Ung and Stingray Editions
Angela Marzullo (curated by Sarah Zürcher)

Seven thematic chapters with performances and talks

Seven themes are explored with the performance festival BANG BANG in different moments and chapters as well as in different exhibition formats. Each of these thematic chapters thus forms a framework for the exhibition in its own way, but is by no means a tight corset. Essentially, they trace the rhizome-like contours of an elusive practice.

BANG BANG all events

Saga (Looking back) 10 until 12 June 2022

Although performance is a young medium, it already has plenty of stories to look back on. How might this legacy be made productive?
Its stories are tales of performance art’s beginnings, its experimentation with formats of collective remembrance, and oral history traditions as narrative and counternarrative. Up for discussion will be variants of performative engagement with performance history: revivals of historical performances that try to be as faithful as possible, ‘second-hand works’ or re-enactments that depart from the original, and completely new works inspired by the same sources. These will shed new light on topical questions as heritage performances are embraced, continued, and re-contextualized, the traces of their history preserved, and cross-generational dialogues initiated. Contemporary performance, in other words, is steeped in its own reception and research.

• Performances:  Paul Maheke | Gisela Hochuli | Davide Christelle Sanvee | DARTS Collective / Claudia Grimm
• Talks: Annika Hossain | SAPA, Michael Hiltbrunner im Gespräch mit Sibylle Omlin, Paul Maheke, Gisela Hochuli, Davide-Christelle Sanvee, Claudia Grimm | DARTS Collective
• Summer Party, 7 June 2022
  Opening of the first temporary exhibition Porte Rouge (Christoph Ranzenhofer & Joa Iselin), Kosmos – Porte Rouge with the performance Karabuki
• online-Megazin 1 'Saga' in German
  

Emancipation from the Medium (Aesthetic Practices, Hybridization) 17 until 19 June 2022

Performance art has long been an artistic genre in its own right that is rendered powerful by its own intermediacy. So does it actually need its own venues, or is it destined to remain stuck in the cracks between traditional genres? Performance art shuttles back and forth between disciplines. It grew out of cross-border forays from the fine arts, theatre, dance, music, and literature – but also outof stand-up. Performances are often articulated in the language of the genre that gave rise to them, and take place in that genre’s ancestral habitat. Whether it is an exhibition space, concert hall, club, theatre, dance stage, or the public space, each has its own reception traditions, just as the conditionalities of the genre are always in the air and hence implicit in the performance, too. The production conditions, in other words, can vary considerably. Performance art has also had to be self-reliant, growing out of, and drawing inspiration from, the most diverse subcultures and the most diverse artistic, social, and political discourses. Avantgarde, Pioneer, Digital Nerd.

The number of different attitudes trying to re-invent performance art and leave their stamp on it while disregarding the rules is perplexingly large. As annoying as they may be at first, these shifts and changes of focus are what enables the genre to change. For all their different traditions, questions, and aesthetic practices, all disciplines know and use the performance concept, which really does break down barriers. Where are there parallels? What do we have in common?

• Performances: Madison Bycroft mit Louise BSX, Andrea Beghetto, Ale r. | Leo Hofmann | Anne Sylvie Henchoz & Dorothea Rust & Myriam Ziehli & Rahel El-Maawi 
• Talks: Lisa Letnansky | GESSNERALLEE talking with Ernestyna Orlowska, Madison Bycroft, Leo Hofmann, Anne Sylvie Henchoz & Dorothea Rust & Myriam Ziehli & Rahel El-Maawi
• online-Megazin 2 'Ausbruch aus den Medien' in German

On the Radical Equivalence of Experience (Choreopolitics, Queer) 24 until 26 June 2022

At the heart of this theme is the place from which we express ourselves. Where does our I come from? And our We? How can spaces and times be connected and kept flexible even as they interact? After all, places and contexts are the spatial and mental settings that render experience possible or impossible. Choreopolitics explores what invisibly guides our bodies and our emotions. Complex performative systems impact us. Spatial and social situations, institutions, urban planning and architecture, but also the family, school, stage, work, and gender norms all evoke demands on our conduct, our actions, our sensibility. Since in everyday life such appeals tend to masquerade as habits, routine, or matters of course, we often become aware of them only after moving to a different context. Choreopolitics reads places as spatial and mental settings that enable the new.

• Performances:   Tarek Lahkrissi | Julia Geröcs & Gabriel Studerus | La Ribot Ensemble | Anne Käthi Wehrli
• Talks: Maria La Ribot, Charlatan | Jean-Damien Fleury, Sarah Glaisen, Esther Maria Jungo, Adailton Santos talking with Romy Rüegger, Tarek Lahkrissi, Julia Geröcs & Gabriel Studerus, Anne Käthi Wehrli
• online-Megazin 3 'Zur radikalen Gleichwertigkeit von Erfahrung' in German

The Fleeting Act (Politics, Activism, Feminism) 1 until 3 July 2022

The dynamic relationship between the subjective and the collective and the desire for self-empowerment are two points in common between artists and activists. When concerns are raised not only with signs and symbols, but also with unexpected images and invented gestures, these often prove to be the more open and readily accessible forms of communication. Concerns that are visible and comprehensible can also be negotiated. Performance art sets out to annoy and to seduce, to publicly question the status quo and the government of the day, and to create facts on the ground.

• Performances:    Alex Baczynski-Jenkins | Darren Roshier | Claudia Barth with Trudi Barth | Ariane Andereggen
• Talks: Yann Marussich talking with Gabriel Magos, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Darren Roshier, Claudia Barth with Trudi Barth, Ariane Andereggen
• online-Megazin 4 'Flüchtige Tat' in German

Social Elegance (Friendships, Scenes, Networks) in collaboration with PANCH – Performance Art Netzwerk CH 8 July until 7 August 2022 in Solitude Park

Artists work with what drives them and what they want. What is lacking locally, they organise themselves. And so they become artist-curators and artist-teachers, doing everything that ‘putting-art-in-the-world’ entails from curating to publicity work to administration to cleaning to hosting to documentation to writing about it and archiving. In doing so they run the risk that official institutions and the market will shirk their responsibility for a healthy climate and flow between mainstream culture and subcultures. Reciprocal invitations, whether translocal or intercontinental, are a matter of course, because without friendship, nothing happens at all.

PANCH: Diverse Live Events 8 July – 7 August 2022 in Solitude Park, in collaboration with PANCH – Performance Art Netzwerk CH

• performers CH: Christine Bänninger, Claudia Barth, Sandra De los Santos, Mo Diener, Ewa Filippi Metelska, Lilian Frei, Pascale Grau, Michael Felix Grieder, Gisela Hochuli, Judith Huber, Parvez Imam, Elsbeth Carolin Iten, Monica Klingler, Vera Kovacevska, Marie-Anne Lerjen, RR Marki, Yara Li Mennel, Dominik Lipp, Regula Michell, MIRZLEKID (Hansjörg Köfler), Dawn Nilo, Laura Pellegrini, Maricruz Penaloza, Natalie Peters, Milena Petrovic, Anna Rigamonti, Ursula Scherrer, Bruno Schlatter, Nadine Seeger, Hanga Séra, Regina Simon, Benji Sunarjo, Elfi Thoma, Meret Wandeler, Thomas Zollinger
• international performers: Anette Arlander (Finnland), Jonathan Blackwood (Grossbritannien), Pınar Derin Gençer (Türkei), Paweł Korbus (Polen), Ana Lazarevska (Nordmazedonien), Varsha Nair (Indien), Natasha Nedelkova (Nordmazedonien), Louise Rosine (Frankreich), Małgorzata Sady (Polen), Ewa Zarzycka (Polen)
• talks: KABH – Kunst Archiv Bernhard Huwiler / Renée Magaña, Mike Hentz, Performance: Boris Nieslony
• Come and Show – Performance All Day Long: 6 August 2022, from 11 am onward
• online-Megazin 5 'Soziale Eleganz' *Zine 1 *Zine 2 *Zine 3 *Zine 4 in German
  

Live Transmission (Situation, Reception) 12 until 14 August 2022

The question explored here is that of perception and the unmediated experience of a work of art that is made possible by the simultaneous presence of artists and spectators at a single performance. Audience and performers share the same time and the same space, which is charged and transposed by the breathing, animate presence of all those occupying it. This co-presence assigns the audience a special role: To what extent is its gaze of constitutive importance to the work being watched? This initial set-up of transmission and identification then spawns translations, communications, and responses of all kinds. Sharing and talking about what was shown will henceforth be crucial to its continued existence.

• performances: Maria Hassabi | Dorothea Schürch & Bärbel Schwarz | Bruno Jakob & Hans Witschi | Birgit & Anatol Kempker
• talks: Pascale Grau, HSLU | Rachel Mader, Linda Neukirchen, HKB | Hanna Barbara Hölling, Bone Sammlung | Marina Porobic, Kunsthaus ZH | Kerstin Mürer , flight of fancy | Alicia Reymond, Fritz Franz Vogel | Fotodokumentationen, Chantal Küng | Film: doris, wie lernt eine hexe?, Kunstkredit BS | Isabel Fluri, Kommission bildende Kunst Stadt LU | Michel Rebosura im Gespräch mit Heike Fiedler, Dorothea Schürch & Bärbel Schwarz, Bruno Jakob & Hans Witschi, Birgit & Anatol Kempker
• online-Megazin 6 'Direktübertragung' in German

Freckly Night (Dazzling Moments between Past and Future) 19 until 21 August 2022

This festive moment celebrates the exhibition itself and the insights gained from it, as well as the togetherness of concert, performance, and show. The dos and don’ts of the craft will themselves supply the inspiration for an evening of moderated performance art, full of sensuality, energy, humour, and collectivity. Which great moments, which undiscovered heroes and heroines, which steadfast collectives will be summoned? And how strung together? How will the energy flows be kept flowing? The sole aim here is to celebrate this living art together and to pay tribute to it in concerts, performances, and shows.

• performances: Esben Weile Kjaer | Les Reines Prochaines (cancelled!) | auction sale with enJeanT., Axel Gampp, Echo & Verstärkung
• Freckly Night mit Ntando Cele, Yan Duyvendak, enJeanT., Iris Ganz, Markus Goessi, Anne Rosset & Robert Alexander, Andrea Saemann,
• moderation: Friese, Fränzi Madörin, Chris Regn, Echo & Verstärkung
• talks: Frauenrakete Zürich with Katharina Steffe and Damengöttinen Basel with Monika Dillier and ... talking with Ute Holl
• online-Megazin 7 'Feckly Night' in German

PROJECT TEAM BANG BANG | PERFORMANCE CHRONIK BASEL

• conception, realisation: Lena Eriksson, Muda Mathis, Chris Regn, Andrea Saemann
• expanded project team: Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Tancredi Gusman, Deirdre O’Leary, Dorothea Rust, Margarit von Büren
• research meetings: Madeleine Amsler, Pascale Grau, Gisela Hochuli, Judith Huber, Marie-Ève Knoerle, Dorothea Rust
• helpers: Carlota Ribi, Alena Stadler
• video ensembles: Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Iris Ganz mit Lea Rüegg, Ursula Scherrer, Barbara Naegelin, Carlota Ribi
• theme clouds: Lena Eriksson, Martina Gmür, Jim Osthaarchic, Chris Regn
• stage props: Produktion Alte Tiere hochgestapelt, Les Reines Prochaines and Friends*, Theater Basel
• curators regional video programs: Judith Huber & Margarit von Büren, Esther Maria Jungo & Gisela Hochuli, Marie-Eve Knoerle, Federica Martini & Petra Koehle & Nicolas Vermot-Petit-Outhenin, Maricruz Peñaloza & Julia Wolf, Stefan Rohner & Andrea Vogel, Claudia Waldner, Hannah Weinberger
• Echo & Verstärkung: Martina Böttiger, Daniela Brugger, Lena Eriksson, Iris Ganz, Martina Gmür, Chris Hunter, Anina Müller, Chris Regn, Antonia Röllin, Dorothea Rust, Wanda Seiler
• technik & documentation: Orpheo Carcano, Sven Friedli, Markus Goessi, Julian Gresenz, Bianca Hildenbrand, Parvez Imam, Ramiro Oller, Wilf Speller, Raphael Stucky, Samuel Tschudin, Linus Weber
• pavillon in the park: Fränzi Madörin, Bea Nichele, Fabian Nichele, Jano Nichele, Valerio Passaseo, Bärbel Schwarz
  
• attendance: Lilian Frei, Anina Müller, Deirdre O’Leary, Chris Regn, Carlota Ribi, Andrea Saemann, Ursula Scherrer
• Museum Tinguely: Séverine Fromaigeat, curator international program

MUSEUM TINGUELY

• director Roland Wetzel | vice direktor: Andres Pardey 
  
• project management and curator international program: Séverine Fromaigeat
  
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