by Barbara J. Scheuermann for
In the past years, theatricality in visual artworks has been one of the hotter topics of the exhibition making business. Artists such as Ulla von Brandenburg, Keren Cytter, Victor Alimpiev, Ana Torfs or Magdalena von Rudy - to name just a few - work decidedly with performative and theatrical strategies and use them in their time-based works, that is video, performances, lectures or audio plays. And very often it is the spoken word which makes the center of the respective piece. Situated as they are between disciplinary boundaries, texts in the visual arts tend to be treated ‘en passant'. ... Read the whole text here
image: Ana Torfs, The Intruder, 2004 (c) Ana Torfs
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