9:30-10:00 Reception and Registration of the Participants
10:00-10:20 Introduction by Christine Zurbach (Director of CHAIA), Teresa Furtado (CHAIA) and Anna Linder (Filmform).
10:20-11:30 Session 1 • Sanne Kofod Olsen (Funen Art Academy de Odense), Conquering subjects: performing female subjectivity. •
Malin Arnell, I Didn't Do It For Nothing, live performance by the artist.
11:30-12:00 tea/coffee break
12:00-13:00 Session 2 • Jane Jin Kaisen, presentation of the artist's work.
• Lilibeth Cuenca, presentation of the artist's work.
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Session 3 • Ana Gabriela Macedo (Universidade do Minho), Women, Art and Power. • Aurora Reinhard, presentation of the artist's work.
• Ane Lan, presentation of the artist's work. • Joanna Rytel, presentation of the artist's work.
16:30-17:00 Debate chaired by Jane Gilmor (Mount Mercy College, Iowa) and Teresa Furtado.
9:30-10:00 Reception and Registration of the Participants
10:00-11:30 Session 1 • High Heel Sisters, presentation of the artists' work.
• Jane Gilmor, Backing Forwards: The 1976 All-American Glamour Kitty (runner up) finally meets the High Heel Sisters.
11:30-12:00 tea/coffee break
12:00-13:00 Session 2 • Teresa Furtado, On performative video disconformities in the work of today's Nordic women artists. • Manuela Cristóvão, Intimate Photo/Videographic Images.
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 3 • João de Oliveira (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa), Gender performativity and queer uses in video art.
• Klara Lidén, presentation of the artist's work.
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Karianne Stensland, live performance by the artist.
16:30-17:00 Debate, Conclusions and Closure chaired by Jane Gilmor and Teresa Furtado.
Exhibiton Opening : 24th Nov., 19:30 h, at Torre do Salvador.
Opening Hours : Monday to Friday 9:00-12:30 h and 14:00-17:30 h.
Saturday 10:00-18:00 h.
The exhibition consists of artworks of the Nordic artists Ane Lan (Norway), Lotte Konow Lund (Norway) Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Denmark), Jane Jin Kaisen (Denmark), Aurora Reinhard (Finland), Pirjetta Brander (Finland), Joanna Rytel (Sweden), Klara Lidén (Sweden), The Icelandic Love Corporation - Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurdardóttir - (Iceland) and High Heel Sisters - Malin Arnell (Sweden), Line Skywalker Karlström (Sweden/Denmark), Karianne Stensland (Norway) and Anna Linder (Sweden).
Two practical-theoretical workshops on performative video divided into three days:
Day 1, introduction to the workshop's theme.
Day 2, developing ideas and filming.
Day 3, editing and presentation of performative video pieces.
The workshops are free and intended for graduate students from Portuguese and Nordic Visual Art Schools. An exhibition of video pieces made by the participants will be held at Edifício dos Leões, UE on 28th Nov.
Jane Jin Kaisen will give a brief theoretical and historical background of video and performance art and the merging of the two mediums with an emphasis on feminist performative video art in general and in the Act Out video work in particular. The difference between a live performance and the use of performance in video will be discussed.
The concepts of intervention, confrontation, and transformation, common themes or modes of address that many performative video artists' work touch upon, will be used by the students as an inspiration, a guideline. Many artists have used their body as a tool to intervene, confront, and transform society, ideas and physical spaces. By taking the following circumstances into consideration, it will be analyzed how the body can be used as a symbol and how the body is read into the context of time and space. The body should be thought as something that is being transformed or transforms its surroundings. The participants should think about what they intend to express by using a performative element in their video project and should think about and plan which objects they want to use (costumes, props, or other kinds of objects).
The overall theme for the workshop is performance artists' strategical use of the body in order to disturb norms pertaining to gender.
The artist Line Karlström will try to outline the concept of the body as receptor and producer of identity and cultural values and how feminist performance artists have interpreted the concept of the body historically. Works of her own as well as work by the High Heel Sisters, the performance group to which she belonged, will be displayed. The participants will reflect on the meaning of nudity as a crucial factor within performance art and will discuss the concept of the "normal" body and the performance works of artists that questioned and disrupted that concept. Topics like documentation, and decisions concerning how to document a piece and collaboration will be discussed. Emphasis will be put on the following issues:
a) is nudity a relevant strategy to use in performance practice, at the present time;
b) the concept of the body as producer of cultural and identity values;
c) the disruption of normativity and the concept of the heterosexualized body.
