Trace: Performance and its Documents

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 27^th of July, 2014.