Showing at Wenz und Franck’s show ‘Die Träumte Ausstelung’ at Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart , Germany 14th till 29th September 2020.
https://www.kunstbezirk-stuttgart.de/start.html
and also at
The Bermuda Project, 830 South Florissant Road, Ferguson, Missouri 63135
in Call and Response, October 24th through November 8th, 2020
Artists: Peter Franck, Peter Haury, Nicole Kather, Traci Kelly, Bruno Nagel, Eva Schmeckenbecher, Thomas Ulm, Julia Wenz
3- 14 September 2020
I’ll be taking part in a “collaborative residency art performance project” in the ArtLab - Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl https://www.kunstpavillonburgbrohl.de/artlab as part of the Kultursommer Rheinland Pfalz Kompass Europa: Nordlichter / Northern Lights http://www.kultursommer.de/home/kultursommer with Stein Henningsen, Kurt Johannessen, Karin Meiner, Thomas Meiner, Boris Nielsony, Christiane Obermayr, Evamaria Schaller and Julia Wenz.
We’ll be performing in Andernach Saturday 5th September 7-9pm in the castle garden, Mayen mine field Friday 11th September 2-5pm and Central Square Koblenz on Saturday 12th September 1-5pm
Stuttgart 6 - 21 July 2020
Kayoticmobil is a Wenz/Franck project (Julia Wenz und Peter Franck). I was invited to spend a period of time using the Piaggio ape for studio practice. You can follow Kayoticmobil at https://eurape.org and https://www.instagram.com/kayoticmobil/?hl=en.
Extending the use of the Vespa ( Italian for wasp) mechanics, in 1947 the Ape ( Italian for bee) was presented as a prototype by aircraft designer Corradino D’Asciano to address post-war transportation and commercial needs for Italy’s population and economy. In the same year post-Mussolini Italy prepared a new constitution and transitioned from a monarchy and fascist state to a democratic one. In 1948 the Piaggio Ape went into production and the first parliamentary democratic elections were held. As part of this parallel legacy I spent time looking at the social insects bees and wasps as frameworks for political thinking, considering how they model aspects such as democracy, swarm behaviour and hive mind. The recent use of the ape by Wenz und Franck was as a photographic darkroom, where experimental recipes in developing formula created the suspended moment and the framed space in which something might appear. Borrowing this disposition of the yet-to-appear I documented a series of experiments that focus the human and non-human body and the form and formlessness of sculpture.
A residency sketchbook can be found here: https://bit.ly/30twBmX
Borderlines 2020 Summer Series
DMU’s Drama, Dance and Performance Studies Research Institute
Resisting Borders: Navigating the Liminal
An artist talk and an invitation to participate with Traci Kelly
An Invitation to Participate - Performance scores for performing borders
Traci Kelly invites you to participate by responding to one performance score chosen from a list of performance scores (accessed, with instructions, via the Eventbrite page below) in advance of the event. Alternatively, you might choose to participate by witnessing and / or offering some thoughts in reaction to other people's creative responses.
To join this webinar, which is free, please book through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-borders-navigating-the-liminal-with-traci-kelly-tickets-111035106994
Symposium panel at InDialogue 2019
Derby Theatre 19 Nov 2019 4.00 - 5.30
Goat Island was a seminal performance group based in Chicago who also presented much of their body of work throughout Europe. Between 1986 and 2009 they devised nine touring works, which entwine historical and contemporary themes through movement, text and arresting images. Constructed through open processes and shared activations with a strong investment in pedagogy, they continue to shape the cultural landscape through generations of creative practitioners, cultural theorists, social philosophers and educators
In 2019 Goat Island had a major exhibition at Chicago Cultural Center: “Goat Island Archive- we have discovered the performance by making it.” A major strand of this exhibition was to invite selected artists to make a response to an allotted Goat Island work, undermining the presumption that archives are static, enclosed and solely historical windows. hancock & kelly were invited to respond to Soldier, Child, Tortured Man 1987 and subsequently made their dialogical work An Extraordinary Rendition 2019.
The Un-Resting and Re-Verbing panel comprised of Goat Island member Mark Jeffrey (SAIC), Curator of the Goat Island archival exhibition Nicholas Lowe (SAIC), Professor of Art History Jennie Klein (Ohio University) and artists Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly will discuss the dialogical nuances within the inter-generational works, and how archives ‘speak’. The panel will also consider the dialogical aspects of site that have shaped the works and yet rendered the boundaries porous and malleable.