Exhibition of Performance, Video Works & Photography
9. – 22. of November 2013
Within the scope of AFiRIperFOMA Performance Biennial 2013
supported by Goethe-Institut
Artists:
WURA-NATASHA OGUNJI (Nigeria / USA)
DENNIS FESER (Germany)
KEMANG WA LEHULERE (South Africa)
MARCIO CARVALHO (Portugal / Germany)
MUDI YAHAYA (Nigeria)
CHRISS AGHANA NWUDO (Nigeria)
JEANNETTE EHLERS (Denmark)
Curated by
Oyinda Fakeye, Martin Baasch & Jude Anowigh
On invitation of AFiRIperFOMA Performance Biennial 2013 the
exhibition TiME TO PRETEND is focusing on the various links between performance
art, memory, heritage and media.
TiME TO PRETEND assembles different ways to trigger
traces of the past and transform them into contemporary narratives. The
exhibition presents seven positions of performance art, body based photography
and video works to complement the live program of the Biennale. The shown
artists use performative practices to raise questions of cultural heritage and
belonging, identity and social determination. In various ways they refer to
memories and traditions of an (imaginary) past, re-discovering, re-enacting or
re-writing it. The selected works shift from “straight into the face”
statements to fragile positions, from rough documentary shots to carefully
composed tableaux vivants.
