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Curatorial projects

Mothers of Invention - Where is Performance coming from
Lets twist again- if you can´t think it dance it
Salon Lady Chutney

In the last years I also have become active in organising and developing concepts for performance-related spaces. With two other artists I ran a tiny non-profit performance space called Salon Lady Chutney in Vienna for one year. The space started a new discussion around performance and began to generate a network of artists working with performance in and around Vienna. With the artist Carola Dertnig I realised an exhibition called 'Let's twist again-If you can't think it, dance it', where we paid tribute to performers who have been working in Vienna since the 1970s but have had little or no critical acclaim partly because of the overshadowing reception of the male dominated 'Aktionisten' movement in Austria. We wanted to question why and who had denied them adequate acknowledgement, since many of the positions we showed are quite relevant to current strategies and discourses pursued in art today. I see exhibition work as a complementary artistic strategy, to actively influence what is subject to public reception, i.e. what is regarded worthy of entering the discourses. A follow up to this show with a broaderinternational focus was realized in MumoK, Vienna in late 2003 and was entitled Mothers of Invention - Where is Performance coming from ?