Performing Documentation, 2011-2012

Performance

Jenny Fair, Vienna (AT), 2011, 1 x 4 hrs

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT), 2012, 2 x 4 hrs

Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH), 2012, 1 x 3 hrs

Gallery Michaela Stock, Vienna (AT), 2015, 1 x 4,5 hrs


Self-timer 2, edited
Self-timer 2, edited

Performing Documentation is an apparatus that produces my texts/stories which are printed on an assembly line and run directly into a shredder and are thus destroyed. Since 2006, I have asked myself the question: how do I document performance? In this project I tried to change my approach and made the documentation a work in itself. Over a few hours I wrote down ongoing occurrences, combined with my thoughts about the dilemma of performance documentation. For the documentation of Performing Documentation I developed an independent system for documenting the action. I installed several cameras that I operated myself. The resulting images were then fed back into the system and destroyed. (This was then documented by others).

Performing Documentation, 2012, photo: unknown
Performing Documentation, 2012, photo: unknown
Self-timer 1, Performing Documentation, 2012
Self-timer 1, Performing Documentation, 2012
Collage, Performaning Documentation at JENNYFAIR, 2011
Collage, Performaning Documentation at JENNYFAIR, 2011

Collage, Performaning Documentation at JENNYFAIR, 2011
Collage, Performaning Documentation at JENNYFAIR, 2011