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).
