Collective Exhibition
“Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – Vienna 2019" is a score and performative exhibition concept conceived by Pierre Bal-Blanc* that generates different iterations of itself. It consists of instantaneous movement whose origin derives from the work of various artists, who are invited to deliver an existing gesture within their oeuvres or to create a new gesture for this occasion. The score is performed by a third party (performer, dancer, amateur) under the joint direction of its author and a choreographer chosen in relation to the place of its realization.This project was launched for the first time at 2017’s documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in concert with the artists featured in the exhibition. “The Private Score – Vienna 2019” is the second version and was produced at the initiative of the Kontakt Collection and in cooperation with Tanzquartier Wien. On this occasion, Pierre Bal-Blanc worked together with the Romanian choreographer and artist Manuel Pelmuş. “The Private Score – Vienna 2019” is based on works by the following Kontakt Collection artists:
Milan Adamčiak, Geta Brătescu, Anna Daučíková, VALIE EXPORT, Stano Filko, Tomislav Gotovac, Sanja Iveković, Anna Jermolaewa, Július Koller, Jiří Kovanda, Katalin Ladik, Karel Miler, Paul Neagu, Manuel Pelmuş, Petr Štembera, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović, Slaven Tolj, and Goran Trbuljak. For more information,see: https://www.kontakt-collection.org/exhibitions/30/collective-exhibition-for-a-single-body--the-private-score
*Pierre Bal-Blanc is an independent curator. He develops his practice based on performance art’s growing legacy and most particularly based on his involvement with Felix Gonzalez Torres’s work “Untitled” (“Go Go dancing platform”, 1991) from which he created the film “Contrat de Travail” (1992). He realized his first “performance exhibition” in 2006, a presentation that involved the simultaneous staging in a Parisian dance studio of performative pieces by Roman Ondak, Sanja Iveković, Prinz Gholam, David Lamelas, Teresa Margolles and others inspired by the essay “La monnaie vivante/Living Currency” by Pierre Klossowski and Pierre Zucca; this exhibition also traveled to STUK Leuven (2007), to Tate Modern London (2008), and to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the 6th Berlin Biennale (2010).
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