Alicia Frankovich
17 Jun - 10 Jul 2011
ALICIA FRANKOVICH
Gestures, Splits and Annulations
17 June - 10 July, 2011
Alicia Frankovich investigates the performativity of the body, which she presents in various states of restriction, yet always with the potential for self-release. In her performances, sculptures and performance-based films, bodies - often the body of the artist herself - are put into states of tension with sculptural apparatuses, often tangled on the floor or suspended in the air. As a former national-level gymnast, Frankovich is interested in the dichotomy of body and machine. In her performances and actions, which are often documented as moving images, she experimentally investigates movement in space and the relations between body and architecture. In many performances people from the audience are actively involved and put into physically demanding situations in which they have to assert themselves, either over the artist herself or the restrictive structures she has set up within the space. In Frankovich’s more recent works, there is a recurrent reference to dance.
Her exhibition "Gestures, Splits and Annulations" at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a constellation of kinetic sculptures and different performances to video and film that explore the sexual and material mechanics, politics and affects of performance itself.
Following an evening of performances that she presented at Salon Populaire in Berlin in May, and subsequent to her exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Frankovich will stage a performance at the HAU 3 – Hebbel am Ufer on the 25th of June 2011. Info and bookings at: http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Alicia Frankovich is participating in the International Studio Programme as a grantee of Creative New Zealand. More info: http://www.aliciafrankovich.com
Gestures, Splits and Annulations
17 June - 10 July, 2011
Alicia Frankovich investigates the performativity of the body, which she presents in various states of restriction, yet always with the potential for self-release. In her performances, sculptures and performance-based films, bodies - often the body of the artist herself - are put into states of tension with sculptural apparatuses, often tangled on the floor or suspended in the air. As a former national-level gymnast, Frankovich is interested in the dichotomy of body and machine. In her performances and actions, which are often documented as moving images, she experimentally investigates movement in space and the relations between body and architecture. In many performances people from the audience are actively involved and put into physically demanding situations in which they have to assert themselves, either over the artist herself or the restrictive structures she has set up within the space. In Frankovich’s more recent works, there is a recurrent reference to dance.
Her exhibition "Gestures, Splits and Annulations" at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a constellation of kinetic sculptures and different performances to video and film that explore the sexual and material mechanics, politics and affects of performance itself.
Following an evening of performances that she presented at Salon Populaire in Berlin in May, and subsequent to her exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Frankovich will stage a performance at the HAU 3 – Hebbel am Ufer on the 25th of June 2011. Info and bookings at: http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Alicia Frankovich is participating in the International Studio Programme as a grantee of Creative New Zealand. More info: http://www.aliciafrankovich.com