Launch of pani: I Am/Jestem – a book on performance art
May 06, 2020
Book launch and a performance on Thursday 6th May, from 11:00am to 12:00pm, at Arts Council of Northern Ireland Offices, 77 Malone Rd, Belfast BT9 6AQ.
The first annual publication by Bbeyond, it documents and contextualises the I Am/Jestem event of 2008/9 alongside other contingent activities of Bbeyond, from May 2008 to June 2009. This publication is an attempt to promote, disseminate, distribute and extend the shelf life of performance art events that have happened here in Belfast from 2008 to 2009, hence the title, pani, (performance art northern ireland). Bbeyond presents pani: I Am/Jestem, a publication of 168 pages involving over 67 artists, Dandy the horse and Paddy the pig. Nine writers and eleven photographers have contributed to this book.
Performance art places the human in the centre of the creative act; the artist as laboratory where culture is deconstructed and transformed. This publication serves, in its own way, to extend these processes and makes it available to others outside of the visual art channels.
I Am/Jestem is contextualised by the writers, Dr Slavka Sverakova, Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes and Dr.Justin McKeown. It also contains an essay by Brian McAvera on the History of Performance and Theatre and an interview with Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, by Brian Connolly and Brian Patterson. The section on ‘contingent activities’ is represented mainly through visual documentation but also contains an essay by Colin Darke on the Dublin Collective solo performaces and their collaboration with Bbeyond in 2009.
See our archive page for details and images of the projects including I AM/JETSEM.
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