Trace: Performance and its Documents

Trace: Performance and its Documents examines the idea that performance art can still be appreciated, even if we aren’t there for the performance.
James Frostick
Published on February 24, 2014

Overview

Have you ever asked a friend to describe an experience you missed out on; only to get the old refrain, “Oh, you had to be there”. Yeah, me too, I get sick of missing things. There may be hope for me though (and you), because the latest exhibition at GOMA attempts to convey the magic of a performance piece, after the fact.

Trace: Performance and its Documents is a series of performance works, viewed through different media; medium’s that weren’t initially purposed to convey the piece displayed. This intriguing idea keeps performance art current, and prevents it slipping away into faded memory by re-wrapping it in a new guise.

Artists on display include John Baldessari; Brown Council; Rebecca Horn; Bruce Nauman, Mike Parr; Campbell Patterson; Qin Ga; Carolee Schneemann; Sriwhana Spong; Song Dong; Ai Weiwei; Gosia Wlodarczak; Erwin Wurm; Zhang Huan, and more.

The exhibition runs until the 27th of July, 2014.

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