This is the Christmas Special! Christmas is about gifts, lights, Christmas gnomes, songs, angels, Santa Clauses and food. It is about candles, decorations, trees and cards. Moreover, Christmas is glittering and it’s red; it’s about giving and consuming, quieting down...
A few words… Welcome to this issue of Ice-Hole, a compilation of some of the remains of the kick-off seminar of the Academy of Finland funded research project How to do things with performance? The seminar was organized on 4th October 2016 in collaboration with the...
Performative Writing In her article “Writing Performance” (1998) Della Pollock defines performative writing as having six qualities. It is evocative, rendering the absent present. It is metonymic, meaning that it is self-consciously incomplete. It is subjective – not...
My presentation is in two parts: at first there is a text What is ‘ESITYS’? I presented in a seminar. The second part is a video Reading on Sandra Bermann’s “Performing Translation”. 1.WHAT IS ’ESITYS’? My research in the project How to...
Abridged Performance In 2015 I started a project with two analogue devices — a vinyl record turntable and Theremin — in a performance lecture. One of the first presentations took place at the Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE) conference held at the Orpheus...
How to perform landscape by repetition? One way of doing things with performance is through repetition, although that is perhaps not the first thing one would associate with traditional performance art. In my presentation at the seminar, titled “How to perform...
text: Jörn J. Burmester and Janne Saarakkala In the previous issue we launched the new ICE HOLE strategy, to produce issues in cooperation. The issue #4 you have just opened was done in cooperation with BONE 18 Performance Art Festival that was held in Bern,...
text: Dani Ploeger By means of introduction (the responsibilities of my role) Until recently, I taught performance art in Higher Education institutions in England. The following is a collection of notes on my role and its responsibilities, organized to effectively...
text: Jörn J. Burmester 1. The Frame The Fluid Academy comes in a number of different shapes. The first form it took was part of the performance art festival BONE, which in its 18th edition in December 2015, decided to go back to school. This text is the current...
text: Juergen Bogle I am a performance artist from Berlin who moved to Bern in 2014 to study at the Bern University of Arts in a quite unique transdisciplinary framework, a Master in Performance Art. It happens that my Professor Valerian Maly is the artistic director...
Video: Jörn J. Burmester, Janne Saarakkala & Evamaria Schaller Black Market International (BMI), founded in 1985, is an international collective of established and independent performance artists who also work as solo artists. They encounter in different events...
