Buenos Aires 2023, August 25
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF HOPE
Performance on traffic island alongside Av. de 9e Julio, Sao Paulo. Video 2.59 mins. Color / Sound. Camera by Eva Dabara. Edit: Bob Schoo. 25th of August 2023.
Equinox – Same But Different
Dordrecht 2023
The Equinox is an international day of public action for freedom for all people. On the Equinox, which takes place twice each year (around 20 March and 22 September), the day and night last approximately the same length around the world. In this spirit of this cosmic equality, a global connection emerges between people performing together in public space.
This sharing of time and space together brings us closer together, creates a temporary global community that encourages non-violent expression, through performance art in local-specific conditions.
All are welcome to participate with openness and in solidarity, to embrace and embody diversity, while acknowledging each other’s individual circumstances, difficulties and conflicts.Collaborations arose spontaneously. There was no programme of consecutive performances. Everything took place simultaneously within the specified hour.
Deelnemers/Participants:
ieke Trinks, Peter Baren, Ienke Kastelein, Yvette Teeuwen, Lotte Werkema, Kirsten Heshusius, Kamila Wolszczak, Geerten Ten Bosch, Yvo van der Vat, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Gerwin Luijendijk, Topp & Dubio, Ellen Rodenberg, Maarten Schepers, Jolanda Jansen, Liesje van den Berk, Marita Bullmann, Philemon Mukarno, Martine Viale, Nico Parlevliet, Frans van Lent.
photography: Nico Parlevliet
Equinox was organized by 222lodge in cooperation with: equinox2equinox.org
LINK: https://vimeo.com/822495328 – video 12.27 mins. Color / Sound. Camera and edit: Steef van Lent.
THE WeighT OF LOVE [RAGE AND TIME AND HOPE] 2022. Kassel DE.
Video: 1.00 mins. Color / sound. Camera and edit: Yeon Jeong.
Photos: Wolfgang Traeger, Michiel Leezenberg, Eliu Almonte, Cai Qing,
Video: 1.00 mins. color / sound. Camera and edit: Yeon Jeong. Thanks to Bob Schoo N-P-N
STILL WAITING / NO REQUIEM 2020
[THE PACK OF TING] Chicago US
video: 2.30 mins.
Camera: Frans van Lent. Color / sound.
Massive in scale and retrospective by nature, What Remains: On the Sacred, the Lost, and the Forgotten Relics of Live Art is the first exhibition of Defibrillator Gallery’s 10th anniversary year. Curated by Netherlands-based ieke Trinks, this visual art exhibition and performance art series features a cohort of artists from around the world who responded to reanimate Defibrillator’s collection of objects from performances that took place over the past nine years by Joseph Ravens, director of Defibrillator Gallery.
Live installment of PB contribution by Christine Cooper on Thu 13, Fri 14, Sat 15 – 2020.
PROJECT: STILL WAITING/NO REQUIEM
For Baren STILL WAITING/NO REQUIEM is an outstanding occasion to be able to transfer this project [THE PACK OF TING work title] that never saw the light of day yet, onto Marilyn Arsem’s table and chair that she used in her performance during 2015 edition of Rapid Pulse including the 4 dry flowers.
Studies were texted and drawn in white onto burned surfaces in situ of both table and chair, hanging down from the ceiling. They include make overs of pieces by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Gerrit van Bakel, Joseph Beuys, Martin Disler and Kiki Smith.
Eventually to bring them together in full scale with short and durational PB performances, to be executed on a later date…
BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND [NO REQUIEM / PROGRESS PROGRESS STRANDED] 2019
Project ID In Between Identities. The Hague 2019.
Performance together with Imke Zeinstra. Camera and edit: Jolanda Jansen 3.32 mins. Color / sound PLAY IT LOUD. Online since 7 September 2020.
Recent screenings of the video above during:
MOVING ART. Königs-Galerie, Kassel, Germany [June 2022 – during OVERLAPPING KASSEL]
1. CINE+PERFO Festival Internacional de Performance–art y Formatos Audio–visuales FIPFA. Buenos Aires, Argentina [10 – 19 December 2021]
TWELVE YEARS. Archives Of Scene. UP-ON Live Art Festival 2008-2020. Lushan Art Museum, Chengdu [Feb. 2021 – October 2020] including performances studies on display
First International Triennial of Performance DEFORMES. Santiago, Chile [November 2020]. Online screening
8th UP-ON Live Art Festival. Chengdu. BDWTHOM [NO REQUIEM] and RAGE AND TIME (2017) are shown in the Wu Temple in Chengxiang’s Old Town, Chengdu [November 2020]
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ON FRIENDSHIP [Collateral Damage] III. The Third GaLUT
Durational project by Joseph Sassoon Semah between October 2019 – February 2020
PB performances as part of the project mentioned, also during opening of the retrospective exhibition TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL JUST BEFORE BIRTH. Oct 2019 – Feb 2020. Performance 20 October 2019 in Museum Hedendaagse Kunst De Domijnen, Sittard. 2019 video 12.40 mins. color / sound. Camera and edit: Bob Schoo
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II – The Guardians of the Door.
Reflection on Kazimir Malevich: The naked square EIRUV ChaTzeROT (Almagamation of Courts). PB participation with several performances in this durational project by Joseph Sassoon Semah
2017 video 15.15 mins. color / sound. https://youtu.be/JTHxJKMQgsU
On Friendship/ (Collateral Damage) II – The Guardians of the Door. Reflection on Joseph Beuys: how to explain hare hunting to a dead German artist.
2017 video: 12.53 mins. color / sound. https://youtu.be/KibiF7RrJLg
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II – The Guardians of the Door.
Around Damsquare and in The New Church, Amsterdam
Participation in project by Joseph Sassoon Semah 2017 video: 10.16 mins. Color / sound. Camera / Edit: Igor Andreevski
Photography: Ilya Rabinovich
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II – The Guardians of the Door.
The New Church and Dam Square. Participation in durational project by Joseph Sassoon Semah.
Maarten Luther and 500 years of Reformation are the central subject: with art, performances, artistic interventions, round-table conversations, lectures and a book publication. There will be critical reflection on the image of Luther as a ‘superstar’ and on his importance then and now. De Nieuwe Kerk, Jewish Historical Museum, Stedelijk Museum and Goethe Institute are all partners in this project.
The starting point was Joseph Sassoon Semah’s nailing his answer to Luther on the door of The New Church, preceeded by a procession coming from Dam square. 22 June. Metropool International Projects 2017.
2017 video: 11.26 mins. Color / sound. Camera / Edit: Igor Andreevski
Image: Ilya Rabinovich
13 July 2017 Dam procession
22 July 2017 New Church
On the 22nd of July 2017, Joseph Sassoon Semah pursued the case with a public intervention towards the installation in De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam. Among the sound of the sewing machines, the bicycle, the procession, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the mute Hare, the silence of the chess players, and the sacred dispute between Lutheran pastor Dr. Andreas H. Wöhle and Joseph Sassoon Semah, one could hear my reading through a megaphone, from the book “On the Jews and Their Lies”; an anti-semitic treatise written in 1543 by the German Reformation leader, Dr. Maarten Luther. [Peter Baren performance]
BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND [RAGE AND TIME] 2017.
Video 15.11 mins. color, sound
Camera/Edit: Peter Franken / Weitblick Films
With Peter Baren, Levi de Kleer, Aurelien Lepetit, Franziska Menge, Fazle Shairmahomed
Performance produced by: FLAM. Forum of Live Art amsterdaM. Photos: David Cenzer
DARK.SHIVERING.SILHOUETTE.ENTERS. FOGGED.SPACE.DIRECTLY.FROM.THE.OUTSIDE.
BUCKLES.SKIS.AND.ONLY.MOVES.ON.THE.SPOT.
ALL.AROUND.FLOOR.TEXTS.OF.HOPE.IN.WORLD.LANGUAGES.
RUNNING.FIGURES.ENDURE.AND.BOUNCE.SIDEWAYS.OVER.AND.OVER.AGAIN.
ORPHANED.WHISPERINGS.AND.GESTURES.BY.FIGURE.THAT.READS.ABOUT.RAGE.AND.TIME.
SHORT.STATEMENTS.ARE.HEARD.ARE.WE.BLIND.PEOPLE? KEEP.YOUR.VACUUMS. CLEAN! PEOPLE.HAVE.THE.POWER!PEOPLE.THE.POWER!!
FIRST.THE.READING.FIGURE.IS.LEAD.OUT.THEN.THE.RUNNING.ONES.
TOWARDS.THE.END.OF.THE.PERFORMANCE.ALL.WORDS.ARE.WIPED.OFF.THE.FLOOR.
THERE.IS.A.GARDEN.AT.THE.BOTTOM!
DARK.SHIVERING.SILHOUETTE.UNBUCKLES.SKIS.AND.LEAVES.THE.BUILDING.AGAIN.
AFTER.FOG.VANISHED.THE.SPACE.SHOWS.ITSELF.AGAIN.
BLIND DATE WITH MICHAEL GIBBS [SECRET IT IS]
Part of the project LET IT KEEP SECRETS [around the early work of Michael Gibbs 1949-2009] Amsterdam September – December 2016
2016. Video, color, sound: 15.25 mins.
Camera: Eva van Heijningen /Edit: Eva Gonggrijp
Performance: Peter Baren
Curator and Head of production: Eva Gonggrijp for Soledad Senlle Art Foundation.
Photos: Gert Jan van Rooij
SCORE:
The performance lingers amongst the exhibited work from the estate of Michael Gibbs.
At first two pieces are taken down from the wall. A carrousel slide projector is set in motion directed towards the empty spot. I step into the projected light and it shows ALL on my back [the next slide shows WITHOUT… when stepping out of the light]. Walking towards the exhibited box with cut out book. Every time when standing opposite a chosen work, I open the book, hold it up in front of me and close my eyes for a short period of time. The excerpt that follows is voiced by Michael Gibbs.
The whole of the trajectory also includes a communion dress, used by Gibbs as part of an installation, and brought in especially for this performance. After several stops I stand in front of Cancelled Letters, the book is opened, again close my eyes, pull out a white handkerchief fromthe chestpocket and stretch my right arm, hold the handkerchief for a short period of time and let it fall on the floor. Right after this action the book is returned into the box.
The ending of the performance takes shape when I slowly walk backwards next to the long showcase. One by one 3 boomerangs are picked up from the glasspanel and pressed against my forehead. They read: EXTINCTION, MIND and on top OPEN. Walking backwards and stop close to the fallen handkerchief, I kneel and the boomerangs are laid down around it. Last position is carried out from behind the communion dress, lift it and stand motionless inside.
Michael Gibbs voices SECRET IT IS
DISCOVER HEAVEN NOW 2016
Performance and video produced for the occasion of SAME DIFFERENCE: Equinox To Equinox 22 September: Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy
Initiated by BBEYOND, Belfast. Every year on 22 March and 22 September groups of performers worldwide celebrate this day. The 2016 film compilation of the event is shown on various locations during this Day.
Video duration: 1.34 mins.
Performance: Peter Baren, Rose Akras
Camera: Peter Franken WEITBLICK Films
Trailer by Bbeyond, Belfast, the producer of SAME DIFFERENCE Equinox to Equinox Duration: 1.35 mins
BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND [RAGE AND TIME] 2015 Live performances around Ledeberghplein, Gent, Belgium
Link https://youtu.be/2e1ytySU3UQ Video: 16 mins. color and sound
Camera and edit: Bernard Roddy
Including performances by a.o. Peter Baren, Beatrice Didier, Snezana Golubovic, Kristiina Koskentola, ieke Trinks, Rob Sweere
Event produced and presented by Monali Meher [Gent, 12 July 2015]
BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. PERFORMANCES 1980-2013
Booklaunch of PETER BAREN publication.
18 May 2014 – Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Teijin auditorium
Presentation is DUTCH spoken: introduction: Britte Sloothaak [SM] / Lecture Marga van Mechelen / performance by Koos Dalstra [Dalstar] / presentation of first copy and the interview between Alex de Vries and Peter Baren.
Total duration: 1.13.31 mins.
The link below offers only the interview between Alex de Vries and Peter Baren, Dutch spoken. Duration 22.48 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9H_cCeaqVs
Presentation of the first copy
ARK series. Compilation 2012-2007
2012.
Video, Color, sound. Duration: 15.56 mins. Edited by Claudia Cruiz, Peter Baren
Camerawork: University of Bristol, Phonsawek Chaiyasit, Izydor Młoczkowski
Edit: Claudia Ruiz
Excerpts of the following performances are included from:
– Glasgow, United Kingdom. NATIONAL REVIEW OF LIVE ART. Tramway [2007]
– Bangkok, Thailand. ASIATOPIA #10. BACC/ Bangkok Art And Culture Centre [2008]
– Amsterdam, The Netherlands. THE MANIFOLD (AFTER) LIVES OF PERFORMANCE. Theater Frascati, coproduction between de Appel arts centre and PLAYGROUND festival / STUK, Leuven, Belgium [2009]
– Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. INTERAKCJE XIV. International Art Festival. Galeria ODA [2012]
DISCOVER HEAVEN [BEGGARS BANQUET] 2009
Marseille, for PREAVIS DE DESORDRE URBAIN festival#3
In the middle of crossroad La Canebiere / Rue de la Grande Armee I slowly rotate with handwritten leaflets that are alternated [in different languages], showing it to people passing. Interrupted by police after 9 minutes. Video: Louis Alesandrini.
Video fragment 1.48 mins
LINK: https://www.facebook.com/554599893/videos/pcb.10157402340799894/10157402388039894?__cft__[0]=AZWfA65s6dFTuiDP-iQ7zH0baNBCSA9quhCHIPgSE0b9QTa0T19SreQz1G6KfJc1RSUqCYuwawAO8bxfJ2ZdEyinyejfb1pb0ELy-SIfKZbqMAL5IRU3Zx3JWX0ckTv6_wHjAcMLuq3CVQPb9_cQMXFC&__tn__=*bHH-R
ARK [UNKNOWN PLEASURES]
Year: 2007.
Duration: 4.51 mins. black&white, no sound
Camera: Ruti Sela
Edit: Peter Baren, Ramon Coelho
Performance: Yarden Bar, Peter Baren, Lenga Caspi, Tal Rosen
LIMA Collection, Amsterdam
The footage was derived from ARK (ON HOPE AND OTHER TERMINAL BODIES SUCH AS BRIDGE OF SIGHS, SLEEP OF REASON AND WAILING WALL)
Series of performances during BLURRR 5. Fifth Biennial Of Performance Art
Location: CCA/Center of Contemporary Art and different sites in the city of Tel Aviv
Performance: Yarden Bar, Peter Baren, Lenga Caspi, Tal Rosen
Date: 23, 24, 25, 26 November 2005
Photography, camerawork: Ruti Sela
Edit: Peter Baren, Ramon Coelho at Netherlands Media Institute
LIMA Collection, Amsterdam
Each day the performance starts in the Center of Contemporary Art / Upper Gallery and consequently the space is left to proceed in a processioned walk to several sites in the city of Tel Aviv where assassinations took place in the past. (except for Day 1]
Day 1: The gallery is foggy and bangs are heard at irregular intervals. People who enter are faced with a figure, its eyes blacked out (censor bar) holding up a jigsaw puzzle (showing two soldiers carrying a youngster away from a colonist settlement). In the middle of the space (standing in between a long and oval floor text by Mao Tse-tung, from 1938) two figures may be descried: heads covered in scarves, their bodies covered with molasses and wrapped together with cling film, their arms outstretched, with mobiles hanging down from their fingers. People gather around the floortext. The first figure takes the jigsaw puzzle apart and puts the pieces down on the floor around the floortext.
Next, all around the surrounding walls the word HARAM is written (in reverse – meaning unclean, impure), to declare everything that finds itself outside this space unclean, impure. In between those words one can read HOPE in many different languages. The first figure shuffles and stops in front of every word [HOPE] and whispers it in that particular language.
This action is followed by the first figure picking up boomerangs one by one, then subsequently SPIRIT, MEATJOY, SHOOT, EARTHLING, CROSSFIRE is written on each of them and they are lined up right behind the figures. The last action consists of the first figure tearing his shirt, while facing the two clinched figures. Doors are opened to lead people out.
On the following three days people who enter the CCA are then faced with a blow-up of the image used previously, which is then torn up and scattered around the floor text (again and again). The jigsaw pieces used in the first performance are left in the space. The line of words is (repeatedly) being licked before the single figure is taken out of the space into the city of Tel Aviv, to sites where assassinations took place in the past.
Every walk ends with the first figure tearing his shirt after facing the other figure, in the vicinity of one of these sites and leading it back to the CCA. During the last trip (to the seaside) a boomerang is thrown towards the sea with the word SPIRIT written on it. PB
Panorama Faulhorn (Museum Of Mankind) 1983
Panorama Faulhorn (Museum Of Mankind)
Peter Baren / Koos Dalstra, 1983
Video: 17.18 mins. color, sound
Camera and editing: Rabotnik TV [Menno Grootveld, Nicole Capaan]
LIMA Collection, Amsterdam
Panorama Faulhorn 1983
Panorama Faulhorn
Peter Baren, 1983. Video: 6.45 mins. color / sound
Camera and editing: Rabotnik TV [Menno Grootveld, Nicole Capaan]
Location: Park Sonsbeek, Arhem [Festival De Stad]
LIMA Collection, Amsterdam
Eastern Mantra 1981
Peter Baren, 1981. Video: 10.26 mins. color / sound
Camera : Dagan Cohen [Galerie Alto, Rotterdam]
LIMA Collection, Amsterdam
Western Mantra 1980
Peter Baren. Video: 21.53 mins. black&white, sound [length of the soundpiece by Cabaret Voltaire (Western Mantra) is also the total length of the actual performance]
Video recording: Willem II crew [Frame Experiment Den Bosch]
LIMA Collection, Amsterdam
