From an Image to an Action

A performance workshop with Helge Meyer.

 

in collaboration with Diffusion System Minuit and Engrenage Noir (http://www.engrenagenoir.ca/)

 

From Saturday March 28 to Sunday March 29, 2009, from 12pm to 6pm
At Engrenage Noir (4521, rue St-Jacques)
Limited space, reserve your place: info@articule.org

In this practice-based workshop, Helge Meyer will work with participants as they explore a variety of approaches to performance art through individual and group activities. The participants will take part in different exercises that deal with main issues in performance art like the space-body-relation, the meaning and function of time and the concept of the "other".

The body of the performer will always be the starting point of the exercises and actions. The workshops will include working in a special "performance time", different from "normal time", to explore how speed influences process and the production of images. On the second day, participants will make use of the surrounding environment, emphasizing the public nature of performance art.

Over two days, the practical work will be reinforced by in-depth looks at the works of selected artists. The participants themselves will determine the ratio between the theoretical and practical components of their work.

 

Helge Meyer was born in Woltwiesche, Germany in 1969.
In addition to his solo practice, Helge Meyer works in parallel with System HM2T, a performance art group he founded with Marco Teubner in 1998. Since 2000, he also with Black Market International. He has performed in Europe, Asia, Canada, South America, Australia and the USA.
Helge Meyer currently teaches performance art workshops and theory classes at the University of Hildesheim and the High School in Ilsede, Germany. His research explores questions of pain, cooperation and the history of images. In 2008, he received a PhD in Art Science/Art History from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. His dissertation, about the image of pain in Performance, was published as a book in 2008 (in german "Schmerz als Bild - Leiden und Selbstverletzung in der Performance Art).