Show, Demonstrate, Exchange: Performance – Art – Academy / Zeig Her, Führ Vor, Tausch Ein: Performnce - Art - Akademie

A publication by the department of Fine Arts / Intermedia Arts of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .
Edited by Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether.
Contributions: Jeremiah Day , Felix Ensslin, Sabrina Karl, Karolin Meunier, Yorgos Sapountzis, Ute Waldhausen, and others.

Johannes Paul Raether and Discoteca Flaming Star and documents in examples the performances and discussions of the first two organised events in Berlin and Stuttgart. In addition texts by the artists Karolin Meunier and Jeremiah Day, specially written for the publication, deepen the immediate impressions of the evenings and reflect from their own practice problems developed in the field of performance, art and academy.

ACADEMY
It appears that the art academy could comprehend performance according, above all else, to the interpretation of performance's individual formal components: the documentation of a live performance is judged as a work of photography or film, the outfitting of the space is considered installation, and the props are seen as sculptures. Work with time and space, the handling of objects, and the spending of time together with the audience are seldom perceived as a work's core, as a productive state of uncertainty between other material forms of production.
In favor of optimizing comparability by means of the sketch on which performance is based, performative approaches are marginalized not only within a blatantly object- and commodity-obsessed art market, but also in academic contexts. Show us: an art academy with a dance studio. Demonstrate to us: a course of study in the visual arts that includes instruction in public speaking.

ACADEMY
ZEIG HER FÜHR VOR TAUSCH EIN
PERFORMATIVE EXHIBITION SITUATION
WE CAN DO IT AT THE MOMA, IN A LIBRARY, OR IN OUR BATHROOM
NOT TO BE ANSWERED IN WORDS
I IN QUOTATION MARKS
INTERMEDIA ARTS
BOOK INSTITUTE
HEUSTEIGTHEATER
LIVE AND EXHIBITED