Visual Art / Performance
Zorka Wollny, "Strange Stories"
Z33, Hasselt
06/04/10 - 17/04/10
As part of the project Nepotists, opportunists, freaks, friends and strangers, intersecting in the grey zone taking place at the Hasselt Z33 Centre for Contemporary Art (Z33 Centrum voor actuele kunst en vormgeving), Zorka Wollny has dreamt up a project entitled Strange stories which will consist of one workshop and one performance. Anyone with a sense of rhythm who would like to be involved in a performance using simple movements which go beyond the predictable is most welcome.
To enrol, send an email to the following address <zorkaw@o2.pl, with the title ‘Participation Strange Stories’.
The performance will take place on 17 April at 17:00 at Z33.
The rehearsals will be held in the evenings from 9 until 16 April, from 19:30.
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Zorka Wollny (born in 1980) is a Polish artist who, since 2004, has been creating live performances centred around what happens when human movement makes contact with a given space. From this, she produces subtle physical compositions. The artist is particularly interested in the dividing line between the self and the role being played, between the private and the artificial, between those moments when one lets oneself go and those in which ones behaviour is determined by social norms and habits. Zorka Wollny’s influences are Jerzy Grotowski, the theory of Erving Goffnam and Richard Schechner’s ‘Performance Theory’.
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The project Nepotists, opportunists, friends, freaks and strangers intersecting in the grey zone is being held at Z33 in Hasselt. It is organised and directed by bolwerK, a temporary and open group which aims to initiate and facilitate projects characterised by the way in which they connect action and thought. Within the project, definitions of, changes to and transformations of the role we play in society will interpenetrate both on the artistic stage and beyond. The mise en scène will become a mise en action in which the presence of the artist, the visitor or the public will be called into question, as well as their responsibilities and what their actions could potentially trigger. The grey area, indefinable, is thus freed from the framework of those spaces which are typically presented, both in terms of form and structure. The box, either black or white, becomes grey or coloured, in a permanent state of change.
To enrol, send an email to the following address <zorkaw@o2.pl, with the title ‘Participation Strange Stories’.
The performance will take place on 17 April at 17:00 at Z33.
The rehearsals will be held in the evenings from 9 until 16 April, from 19:30.
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Zorka Wollny (born in 1980) is a Polish artist who, since 2004, has been creating live performances centred around what happens when human movement makes contact with a given space. From this, she produces subtle physical compositions. The artist is particularly interested in the dividing line between the self and the role being played, between the private and the artificial, between those moments when one lets oneself go and those in which ones behaviour is determined by social norms and habits. Zorka Wollny’s influences are Jerzy Grotowski, the theory of Erving Goffnam and Richard Schechner’s ‘Performance Theory’.
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The project Nepotists, opportunists, friends, freaks and strangers intersecting in the grey zone is being held at Z33 in Hasselt. It is organised and directed by bolwerK, a temporary and open group which aims to initiate and facilitate projects characterised by the way in which they connect action and thought. Within the project, definitions of, changes to and transformations of the role we play in society will interpenetrate both on the artistic stage and beyond. The mise en scène will become a mise en action in which the presence of the artist, the visitor or the public will be called into question, as well as their responsibilities and what their actions could potentially trigger. The grey area, indefinable, is thus freed from the framework of those spaces which are typically presented, both in terms of form and structure. The box, either black or white, becomes grey or coloured, in a permanent state of change.
Links
- Z33: http://www.z33.be
