Ongoing performative action 
Alexandra Pirici (RO)

Delicate Instruments of Engagement

 
Alexandra Pirici

is a Romanian artist with a background in choreography and performance that works undisciplined, across different mediums. Her work has been shown at the prestigious Skulptur Projekte Munster 2017 edition, the Venice Biennale, Manifesta 10, Berlin Biennale 9 and Tate Modern London among others, having stablished herself as a central protagonist of a generation of young artists who use performance as a medium. She uses the human body and enactment to reflect on the monumental, history and memory as well as their relation to new technologies and the online sphere.

 

Credits

Performance 
Paula Gherghe, Maria Mora, Cristian Nanculescu, Paul Dunca, Farid Fairuz  
Light 
Andrei Dinu  


Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna.  


The performance will take place by invitation of Tanzquartier Wien in collaboration with Kunsthalle Wien. 

Delicate Instruments of Engagement

Alexandra Pirici’s Delicate Instruments of Engagement wanders through the past, the present and the future, pondering the increasingly blurry lines between politics and pop culture. With five performers, the artist recreates a subjective selection of images, situations and Internet memes that have become iconographic memories of our time.

The audience can choose different beginnings from the various stories over and over again. These include, among others, images of Ceauşescu’s execution after the Romanian revolution, the almost identical speeches delivered by Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, the removal of the full-size tapestry copy of Picasso’s Guernica at the UN during a speech by US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, to garner approval for an intervention in Iraq, Joseph Beuys’ whisky commercial from 1984 for the Japanese brand Nikka, which served the artist as a means to finance the 7000 Oaks project for the documenta, George Michael’s song Freedom ’90 and sequences from Grace Jones’ video Slave to the Rhythm.

Alexandra Pirici

is a Romanian artist with a background in choreography and performance that works undisciplined, across different mediums. Her work has been shown at the prestigious Skulptur Projekte Munster 2017 edition, the Venice Biennale, Manifesta 10, Berlin Biennale 9 and Tate Modern London among others, having stablished herself as a central protagonist of a generation of young artists who use performance as a medium. She uses the human body and enactment to reflect on the monumental, history and memory as well as their relation to new technologies and the online sphere.

 

Credits

Performance 
Paula Gherghe, Maria Mora, Cristian Nanculescu, Paul Dunca, Farid Fairuz  
Light 
Andrei Dinu  


Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute Vienna.  


The performance will take place by invitation of Tanzquartier Wien in collaboration with Kunsthalle Wien. 
26.01.+
Fri
17.00-21.00
27.01.
Sat
18.00-22.00
26.01.+
Fri
17.00-21.00
27.01.
Sat
18.00-22.00
Kunsthalle Wien
€ 10

Admission included in the ticket for Act 2 – To Resist by Tamara Cubas.

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Part of TQW Reopening

 
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