between_"the other" and "the self"_a video_stream 3# act "the event"

Guy Ben-Ner

“I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it”, 2007, dvd / 17min.

between_"the other" and "the self"_a video_stream

3#act "the event"

videos works by

agassi f. bangura

guy ben-ner

shana moulton

guido van der werve

interview whit agassi f. bangura

Date_13.01.2010, Time_7.30 - 11.30 pm
Location_ voges gallery, Neue Mainzer Strasse 1 - 60311 Frankfurt am Main

The performative act as main practice in video works.

The practice of perfomance in video art are with us since the early days when Bruce Nauman and Paul MacCarthy decided to stop doing live performances and instead recorded and edited their performances to produced their video installations. Video became the trasporter of live performances. But for this to happen they need to continue to bring the live performance aspect into the video piece.

Artists like Agassi Bangura, Guy Ben-Ner, Shana Moulton and Guido van der Werve are execellent protagonists of this practice in recent times. They manage to create such an aura of presence in their video works. Agassi F. Bangura and Shana Moulton do performe live sometimes. This artists do work in public spaces or settings and within a very intimate environment and situation as well. In most of the cases they produce, with theirs performative acts, what we could call "the event" .

guido van der werve

"Nummer vier

I don't want to get involved in this

I don't want to be part of this

Talk me out of it”, 2005

shana moulton

"Whispering Pine" 8, 2006

agassi f. bangura

“Shaman in desert storm”, Dubai, 2009

guy ben-ner

“Stealing beauty", 2006