“Performance art is a permissive, open-ended medium with endless variables, executed by artists impatient with the limitations of more established art forms.”<\/em>\u00a0RoseLee Goldberg<\/strong><\/p>\n Art as a tool for social integration, in line with the work and ideas of Joseph Beuys, is a constant source of inspiration for the stage. But what is the tone of today\u2019s world? The sky is rather dark and heavy. The rise of fundamentalisms, globalisation purporting to bring progress yet dragging us into a constant flux of information, enslaving us to collective thought and common opinions. The acute individualism of our western societies leads to the gradual disappearance of the sense of solidarity, the disintegration of traditional family structures, etc. These ruptures are in turn provoking zones of resistance, illustrated here by this concentrated set of performative, activist propositions which operate on a distanced, sometimes ironic, mode.<\/p>\n This year, Experienz is taking over the Wiels, the lung of contemporary art in Belgium. A nomadic platform for live artistic experiences, open to all, Experienz #2 offers an eclectic programme of 18 artists from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds (Lebanon, United States, Ecuador, UK, Portugal, France, Taiwan, etc.).<\/p>\n From the subtle analysis of the gesturality of political discourse with Liz Magic Laser, to the body as a spatio-temporal tool in an identified architectural space with Malena Beer, to a ritualised performance by Ninar Esber, methodically sifting through grains in accordance with their colour and quality, or again to the sound statement by Oliver Beer about the civic role of the artist today \u2013 all these pieces are performative propositions whose content is both political and personal (the self in relation to the other). A completely new exchange of experiences with a public placed in a state of extreme self-awareness, sometimes provoked by words, gestures, stories and actions, all experienced in real time. Lastly, a round table will bring together collectors of immaterial art, artists and curators, including art historian RoseLee Goldberg, founder of the Performa festival in New-York, on the question \u201cHow to collect\/show performance art today?\u201d<\/p>\n All these tableaux vivants will be rounded off with a noise concert by New York artist Sergej Jensen. \u201cTo be with art is all we ask\u201d said the artists Gilbert and George in the 1970s, and this could be the postulate of this new edition.<\/p>\n
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