Now that we are engaged, we have the opportunity to relate. Dear lover, I want you to need me for this ICE HOLE but, who are WE? In our present time of increasing “self-likeness” — that is, perceiving ourselves as being digitally affirmed by one another — our...
Yesterday I began thinking again about Christine Chubbuck: supposedly the first woman’s suicide caught on film and, importantly, an intentionally public act. This was not an accidental recording. She shot herself in the head while news anchoring. To make...
1: YOU SHOULD (BE MORE) LIKE ME The area of the Midwestern USA where I grew up is predominately Mennonite and other Anabaptist Christian, home to two of the major Mennonite colleges in the United States. Anabaptist faiths are organized along a spectrum between...
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...
We invited four artists from BONE 18 festival to make a one-minute video with an object: Madame Bovary, a book by Gustave Flaubert. The artists – Florian Feigl, Evamaria Schaller, Helge Meyer and Klara Schilliger – had an English, French or German translation in their...
At Bone 18 Performance Art Festival, Bern, Switzerland A video documentary by Evamaria Schaller for ICE HOLE – Live Art Journal issue no.4 With Black Market International: Jürgen Fritz (DE), Myriam Laplante (CA), Alastair MacLennan (NI), Helge Meyer (DE), Boris...
Editor’s letter This time, ICE HOLE is done in collaboration with the TONIGHT event. TONIGHT was a series of performance art events, held at an intense pace between April 2014–December 2015. What was very special for TONIGHT was that each event started at...
A year-and-a-half ago, Liina Kuittinen and Tomasz Szrama asked me to perform in Tonight. The invitation letter they sent to me was black. It was a nightmare to print legibly, but I liked the difficulty. I liked everything about this, actually. Let me explain. Good...
