Performance Studies A Selection of Recent Performative Work
Developed at The Watermill Center
December 10, 2009 - March 5, 2010
Watermill Brooklyn Gallery
111 Front Street
Brooklyn, New York
Closing Reception
Thursday, March 4, 2010
6:00PM–8:30PM
Curated by Dmitry Komis
Works by: Maria José Arjona (Colombia) C. Ryder Cooley (USA) Robin Deacon (UK) Katharina D. Martin (Germany, Holland) H.E.R.D. Group (Ireland, South Korea) Steven Vega (USA) Implied Violence (USA) Katherina Radeva (Bulgaria) Klingon Terran Research Ensemble (Holland) Joshua Seidner (USA) Girlmachine—Carlos Soto / Charles Chemin
Christian Wassmann / Luisa Gui (USA, France, Switzerland, Italy)
A publication visualizing the embodiment of fear & love and pain & pleasure. This book tells the story of the female and the beauty of a multilayered identity. With this project we like to inspire you to discover the aesthetics of imperfection, and show how amazing it is to live your own empire.
Concept and Design Jonmar van Vlijmen (NL)
With the Artwork by Katharina D. Martin (D)
Including texts by
Carolin van de Akker (NL)
Art Historian
Dr. Marta Zarzycka (PL)
Assistant Professor for Genderstudies
Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko (PL)
Philosophic Writer
Marina Abrmaovic (SERB)
Performance Artist
Including 2 exclusviv for
Queendom made illustrations by
Han Hoogerbrugge
We want to give you the chance support our work by becoming one of the 80 Queendom Benefactors and receive a numbered Queendom Certificate. At the day of the Booklaunch, you will receive a personal signed copy. This hardcover edition will include over 100 pages with a lot of full colour images and several texts and comments.
To become one of our Benefactors
and to get more information please visit our website
This new performance project is taking place from Sept 22nd till Oct 4th in the Watermill Center, who was founded in 1992 by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson.
In a residency taking place September 22–October 4, the German-born, Rotterdam-based performance and video artist Katharina D. Martin takes advantage of the Watermill Center’s unique locale, in addition to its resources for interdisciplinary work. Entitled Forest Time, her project will entail her living, glamorously dressed throughout, in the woods surrounding the facility—and filming herself over the course of several days. She will be fully attired like a Marilyn Monroe-esque female icon, with a fresh manicure, makeup, evening wear, and high heels. She will carry out traditionally feminine activities, in addition to acts of survival and play, while living outdoors at Watermill. As she inhabits this striking incongruity—dressed up in artifice in a natural environment—Martin will reveal the absurdity of classic signifiers of glamorous femininity. This event is an opportunity to see Martin's work-in-progress, captured via video, to the general public.
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Onderzoek naar de vrouwelijke identiteit loopt als rode draad
door het werk van Katharina D. Martin. Ze gebruikt haar
lichaam als beeldend materiaal. Ook voor haar objecten,
waarin ze werkt met haar eigen haar, tranen, bloed en nagels.
In de tentoonstelling Ceci n’est pas une femme presenteert
Katharina D. Martin een selectie van performances en objecten
uit de afgelopen vier jaar.
In the Maassilo, at the Maashaven Zuidzijde 2 at the 10th floor on Wednesday the 1st of April 2009 start at 21:00 till 1:00 entrance 7 euro
The line up of this evening will be:
Brendan Cormier , Peter Leeuwerink, Stijn Peeters, Bas van der Schot, Katharina D. Martin, Sil van der Woerd, Edith Kuyvenhoven, Bert Simons, Charlotte Kan, Alexander Zeh, Daan Markus, Jack Aleister, Gil & Moti Homegallery
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ARTISTS SPACE
Night of the 1000 Drawings Benefit
Saturday, December 13th 3-8pm
ArtEvenue Las Palmas Rotterdam / LP II ma 13 okt 2008 t/m zo 26 okt 2008
Ruim dertig kunstenaars uit alle disciplines en windstreken vertonen hun werk, dat uiteen loopt van schilderijen, fotografie, muziek, dans en grafisch ontwerpen tot performances en audiovisuele middelen. ArtEvenue is een initiatief van het Regionaal Bureau Zelfstandigen, die hiermee het cultureel ondernemerschap wil bevorderen.
a Toine Horvers performance
Enschede Cultuurmijl
Saturday 24.05. 1 - 5 pm
Doorzicht (see through) performative installation
i.c.w.Katharina D. Martin Doorzicht is a way of trying to make the Cultuurmijl, which is a long
line through Enschede between north and south, a sort of transparent.
The view on the line is broken by bends in the road, buildings, trees,
etc. Two performers, connected by mobile phones, will describe the
view from different points along the line. The first day (26.04.) was
done by rotterdam artists Miriam Reeders and Gabrielle Barros
Martins, this second day (24.05.) Toine Horvers will work in
collaboration with performance artist Katharina D. Martin.
With her performances, videoworks and objects Katharina D. Martin is tracing different forms of identity. One of her main topics is the research over female versions of existence. Her works have a strong personal aspect and giving at the time an important view on contemporary art. The body is one component of our self determination. So please do not be surprised when you find yourself close to one´s own body materials. Katharina D. Martin likes us to feel her work and leaves us in the same moment with different ideas of identity.
The opening will be at Thursday the 24 of April at 16:00 in the Exhibition space of the Vrijhof, with the performance “Boxfight”
SUB URBAN VIDEO LOUNGE
Projections daily from 12h to 17h, except for mondays
Ertragen : 2004 Registration of a performance/installation
The place in which the performance takes place is a big space whose ground is covered with worn garments. The gowns, skirts, blouses, sweaters, T-shirts, trousers etc. are folded carefully. Every folded up pile contains clothes for one combination. Katharina D. Martin and her performance partner (M. Bernsen) confront each other. They begin to unfold the garments and to put them on, one combination at a time. They observe each other briefly and then take off the clothes to throw them heedlessly on the ground. The performance ends when all things have been worn and untidily lie spread out in the room.
(performance 6 hrs, registration 1 hr)
SUB URBAN VIDEO LOUNGE
LOCATED @ URBAN ESPRESSO BAR
PAIR02 International Performance Event at cultural center Taidepanimo, Lahti, Finland.
Poor Artists in Residence international performance event at Monday and Tuesday the 26th & 27th November,
Selection of performers:
Arti Grabowski (POL), Artur Tajber (POL), Pekka Luhta (FIN), Sunniva Huglen (NO/SE), Stein Henningsen (NO), Stephanie K_Echeinberg (FR/BE), Julie Bacon (IR), Nina Boas (NL), Katri Kainulainen (FIN), Katharina D Martin (GER/NL), Tomasz Szrama (POL/FIN), Marek Pluciennik (POL/FIN), 3V & Larry Button (FIN), Lauri Luhta (FIN), DXXXA (FIN), Irma Optimisti (FIN), Pekka Kainulainen (FIN), Antti Laitinen (FIN), Tomas Kouba (POL/FIN), Keuhkot (FIN), Otzir Godot (FIN), Jaap Klevering (NL/FIN),Jozef Bury (POL/FR), Charlie Jeffery (FR), Skindrone (FIN), Dark President, Foundling and the Greenhouse Effect (FIN), Kevin Henderson (Scot)
Traveling under difficult conditions
performance week journey with Katharina D. Martin
Sa 03.11. - Fr 09.11.07 every day at 17:00
Galerie de Aanschouw / 80b
Witte de Withstraat 80b / Rotterdam
Katharina D. Martin goes on a journey,
close to the street where other traveler pass by.
Her performances are purely situative events
which cover a space time distance.
i.dentity I u.dentity I e.dentity I a.dentity
curator: Miranda Kronenberg
advisors: Camiel van Lenteren/Dennis Elbers
13.04.07 - 25.05.07
KOP kunstenaars ontmoetingsplaats
Personality is flexible. People and society are evolving continuously. Nowadays the development of your personality does not only depend on your upbringing, education and social culture. With the use of make-up, plastic surgery, personality training, self-help books, virtual worlds like "Second life" and virtual networks like "Hyves" every individual can put on an other personality like a new coat. Weaknesses can be modified assets can be magnified. Choice is available in abundance. Identity is exchangeable, now more than ever.
Opening will be on Friday 13th of April from 20.00-00.00
Friday may 25th there will be a festive closure from 21.00-02.00.
Positioning System - whereareyou, iamhere,hereweare -
mama - showroom for media and moving art in Rotterdam
01.12.06 - 14.01.07
Positioning System - whereareyou, iamhere,hereweare - is een groepstentoonstelling van in 2006 afgestudeerde kunstenaars uit Nederland en Belgie. Om zichzelf te lokaliseren en positioneren tegenover hun historisch, sociaal en cultureel bepaalde omgeving, gebruiken zij een persoonlijk positioneringsysteem. Zij ervaren, registreren en infiltreren in de wereld om zich heen gebruik makend van diverse systematische methoden. Deze werkwijze is vergelijkbaar met GPS; het populaire systeem dat het mogelijk maakt als gebruiker je positie te bepalen en je weg te vinden in een immens landschap van mogelijke routes.
tentoonstelling in de nieuwe Vide ta Haarlem
26.11.06 - 24.12.06
This group exhibit consists of two parts. In the building there is a "white cube" where the artists there work present. At the same time little poetic interventions are carried outdoors on the surrounding area. The artists will leave a remaining piece of art in the public space.
Zodra de dagen donkerder worden en de nachten langer, kan het winkelende publiek in Nijmegen op straat weer genieten van (gratis) videokunst. Al drie opeenvolgende jaren worden in de gehele maand december op een groot scherm in de etalage van galerie "Bart Kunst in Huis" video´s geprojecteerd van veelbelovende videokunstenaars. De eerste keer gebeurde dat in samenwerking met Lazy Marie uit Utrecht, de laatste twee jaren met de Nijmeegse filmstichting Dziga, werkplaats voor filmmakers en videokunstenaars.
Het bestuur van Stichtig het Torentje heet u van haarte welcom
op de opening van de installatie The seamstress van Katharina D. Martin op zaterdag 17 juni 2006. U wordt
verwacht om 17 uur inleescafé De Meridiaan van de Openbare
Bibliotheek Het Baken 2 te Almelo
A big apparently disordered heap of used white clothes is pressed against the inside of one of both shop-window discs, and takes from the inside a significant part of the space. Everything is to be found under these clothes: Women, men and child clothes, clothing as well as underwear. Beside the mountain in clothes only two white stools similar to base are in the space. On one there lie scissors, thimble, needle and black thread. On the the artist herself sits. She wears a red dress. She sews everything with the hand on eachother and makes big pricks them how stay on the clothes behind, like long scars. Bit by bit there originates a carpet made from clothes. On Thursdays, a normal weekday; in the daybreak she sits there. Sunday, the end of one week; late in the evening, if the day goes over to become night, she sits there again and sews. For the whole length of the Exhibitiontime of this performative installation a slow restacking, therefore a metamorphosis, is to be noted. Here is in skillful way the textile history of the town connected with an archetypal picture.
