Critical Joy | Keith Hennessy / Peaches
July 27, 2016
ImPulsTanz, MQ Square, Vienna
"Starting from the workshop Critical Joy, co-led by Keith Hennessy and Peaches with an international collaborative of dance and performance artists, a series of performances were created in close encounter with painting, sculpture, dance, pop and their hybrids. Choreography, sculpture and music as expanded social practices where politics and art and party and friendship motivate action." Hennessy
Critical: Being awake to structural violence.
Joy: The secret of struggle (Alice Walker).
The performance took place as two linked events:
A series of museum performances staged throughout Vienna’s mumok (museum of contemporary art) responding to the exhibit Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age. Each performance was created and staged by the performers. A free public concert on a big outdoor stage in the Museum’s Quartier, directed by Peaches and Hennessy and witnessed by 3000 people. Featuring songs and performance actions by Peaches, Hennessy and the collaborating workshop artists. The event concluded in a joyous DJ set by Bhenji Ra & Casper-Malte Augusta.
Credits
Direction: Peaches & Keith Hennessy
Created in collaboration with Josephine Ahnelt, Bonnie Curtis, Samira Elagoz, Dolores Hulan, Nora Jacobs, Lau Lukkarila, Alex Mähr, Tobias Maier, Christopher Matthews, Andrea Maurer, Chad McLachlan, Alexandre Morin, Johanna Nielson, Birte Opitz, Rory Pilgrim, Sébastien Provencher, Bhenji Ra, Macieja Sado, Michael Scerbo, Liv Schellander, Marion Steinfellner, Marie Ursin, and Stephanie Wyburn
Curated by Christine Standfest. A cooperation between ImPulsTanz und mumok
Painting 2.0 was curated by Manuela Ammer (mumok curator), Achim Hochdörfer (director of the Brandhorst Collection), and David Joselit (distinguished professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York), with Tonio Kröner (assistant curator, Museum Brandhorst).
The text on this page is taken from the homepage of Circo Zero, Keith Hennessy's collaborative working platform.