The Long Tail

7 pm

In May a live performance by Mark Leckey will take place on the stage of the theatre hall in the film set installation. He will give a lecture in which he will reflect his view on the history of television: meaning and decay including the role of the BBC in this context.

Herd Instinct 360°

5 pm, Lecture Performance, performed by Frances Scholz

Fia Backström describes her lectures Herd Instinct 360° as cult action or group therapy and promises: „We will feel well“. Herd Instinct 360° is an invitation to hear, to see and speak over community. In the performance Backström performed by Frances Scholz she takes Dan Grahams historical work Performer/Audience/Mirror (1977) as a starting point and produces a kind feedback for the pictures, which groups produce. While with Graham the person in the audience is reflected as part of the mass, Backström´s performance is a kind of public speech in form of a lecture, a comment on forming and behaviour-forms of groups. Between November 2005 and January 2006 Fia Backström (born 1968) set up three Herd Instinct 360º Sunday situations at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York. The project has travelled to numerous locations such as United Nations Plaza, Berlin, De Appel, Amsterdam and Serpentine Gallery, London. Her work has recently been shown at the Whitney Biennial, New York, White Columns, New York, ICA, London and The Kitchen, New York.

TkH (Walking Theory), The last theoretical performance – Génerique

8 pm

After a long line of theoretical performances performed in an opera house, boxing ring, botanical gardens, on the internet, TV, radio, in the university amphitheatre, classroom, museum, gallery, paper and documenta 12 in Kassel, Walking Theory (TkH) shows its body for the last time. Its breasts, to be more precise.

TkH (Walking Theory) was founded as a research theoretical-artistic group in Belgrade in 2000. Main domain of the work of the TkH Platform is to encourage the development of contemporary performing arts practices and their critical discourses through the TkH Journal for Performing Arts Theory, educational projects, an on-line platform, and artistic and theoretical projects. TkH Platform is also engaged in the cultural policy field and empowering of infrastructural and discoursive potentials of independent artistic and cultural initiatives.

The Great Pretending

9 pm, Music Performance

Christian Naujoks moved only recently from Vienna to Cologne and since August 2009 he is studio scholarship holder of Kölnischer Kunstverein. His artistic work includes performances, videos and music productions. In his music lecture he will tell us stories from „the discourse department“ of the Viennese twelve-tone musik and beyond that he will touch us with his musical “aphoprisms”, which vary strangely between an exhilarated Crooner ballad and a modernistic way of being to the point.

The event takes place in the series Antenne Köln, supported by RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur and as part of the Lange Nacht der Museen.
Presented by Spex

Pictures exemplify quite nicely the Exhibition as an Event from afar, Version Cologne

8 pm

In his live performance Achim Lengerer refers to his preceding exhibition Blows into the microphone: Is it all right? Voice off mike: It’s all right. Pause… from 2006, in which he re-enacts a lecture of the American filmmaker Hollis Frampton and his famous film Nostalgia (1971) and comments on its avant-gardistic refraction of word and image. Achim Lengerer (born 1973) works with questions of language that he either thematises in his performances or spatialises within his installations. In the last years Lengerer founded different collaborative projects: labelfuerproduktion (2005) was initiated by Lengerer as a collaborative, process-oriented art project that presented performances, exhibitions and events at institutions like Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna or Kunstverein Braunschweig. He co-founded the artist-run space freitagsküche in Frankfurt a. M. in 2004 that later on moved to Berlin. The third long-term project, voiceoverhead is a collaboration with his artist colleague Dani Gal. On the basis of a huge record collection with sound documents, mainly speeches, the artists developed presentations and DJ-lectures at among others INSA Art Space, Seoul, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. Achim Lengerer has had various exhibitions and presentations at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Bonner Kunstverein, and others. Lengerer runs the travelling showroom and instant publishing house Scriptings – currently based in Amsterdam.

Lentz und Winters merken was

8 pm

One can nevertheless not always only read! A doctor becomes a worm through the word. Schiller´s The bell overhauls the reader. Rilke has the right to sound differently. Ballet goes without music, and brass-band music goes without trumpet. With this Lentz/Winter revue one never knows, what will happen next and especially not, what happened just a minute ago. A lot is at stake – Lentz and Winter fight for each point. Therefore the listener recognizes something again, which he did never see before.

Michael Lentz (born 1964) works as an author, musician, and performer. Since 2004 he has been president of the FreeAcademy of the Arts in Leipzig. Lentz has received numerous awards, among others the Ingeborg-Bachmann Prize (2001), the Hans-Erik-Nossak Sponsorship Award of the BDI (Federation of German Industries) (2002), or the Prize of the Literature Houses (2005) His latest novels are Liebeserklärung (2003) and Pazifik Exil (2007). In 2005 Michael Lentz and his colleague Uli Winters developed their literature performance and presented it on a tour through Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. In these performances Michael Lentz reads while two puppets in the background, played by Uli Winters, constantly comment on what he is saying. By intervening in the lecture situation the puppets poke fun at the reading situation and of the performer himself.

Endnotes

8 – 9 pm

Tris Vonna-Michell’s (born 1982) speech performances refer to historical events and persons, personal biographies or visited cities. He develops an intriguing immediacy through his fast and poetic monologues and includes slides, objects and texts in his performances as demonstrative tools of the stories, which he presents to the visitor mostly one-on-one. He lately started to work in installations. His slide installations for example are complemented by the underlying voice of the artist commenting and fuelling the shown images. Tris Vonna-Michell won the ars viva prize in 2008/09 and has participated in numerous exhibitions such as Koeln Show2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne (2007), Performa 07, New York, Yokohama Triennial (2008), 5th berlin biennial (2008) and Tate Triennial, London (2009). He has had solo exhibitions at among others Schnittraum, Cologne (2006), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2007) and Kunsthalle Zürich (2008/09).