SITES + SUBJECTS – Performance Art Weekend

A project by Jakob Racek, cultural manager at the Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

June 18 – 20, 2010
Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv – The Ancient Bath, Corridor Gallery Plovdiv, Sariev Gallery, artnewscafé

Elisabeth Penker (A), Susanne Rogenhofer (A), Marina Faust (FR/A), Aymeric Hainaux (FR), Albert Mayr (A), Prodan Markov (BG), DaDaDaAcademy (INT), Ensemble Wilhelm Groener (D), FOREVER AND A DAY BÜRO (D).

This years summer season at the Center for Contemporary Art CCA Plovdiv is dedicated to various forms of Performance Art, crossing the division lines of visual art and installation, sound, voice and dance. From Friday till Sunday, June 18 – 20, 2010, the CCA Plovdiv hosts as much as twenty international and local artists who will perform in interdisciplinary constellations and thus create unique settings for artistic encounters.

Program

Friday, June 18, 2010
Center for Contemporary Art/The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv
Performance program with Elisabeth Penker, Susanne Rogenhofer, Marina Faust, Aymeric Hainaux, Albert Mayr and students from the Academy for Music and Arts AMTII in Plovdiv.

Saturday, June 19, 2010
Corridor Gallery, Plovdiv
Opening „DaDa Da Academy archive: ON VIEW” with works by Iris Brosch, Selma Doborac, Marina Faust, Lazar Lyutakov, Albert Mayr, Prodan Markov, Alexandar Peev, Elisabeth Penker, Panos Papadopoulos, Maximilian Pramatarov, Susanne Rogenhofer, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Axel Stockburger, Dorota Walentynowicz.

Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv Opening „on three walls” with works by Marina Faust.

artnewscafé, Plovdiv
Opening party, DUB Club Vienna presents: DJ Sweet Susie and jonnyhawaii live.

Sunday, June 20, 2010
Center for Contemporary Art/The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv 
Ensemble Wilelm Groener (Berlin): „33 sketches”. 

Center for Contemporary Art/The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv 
Opening „Lontano” with works by Ben Cottrell, Matthias Dornfeld, Andrew Gilbert, Mariola Groener, Erwin Kneihsl, Markus Selg and Astrid Sourkova. 

The project is supported by Goethe-Institute Bulgaria, Austrian Embassy in Sofia, Academy for Music and Arts Plovdiv.