COMMON GROUND: MERCHE BLASCO & JIYOUNG YOON & GRAŻYNA ROGUSKI

01.06.2023 / 19:00 – 23:00
With Jiyoung Yoon, Merche Blasco

7:00 pm
Presentation
Merche Blasco

Current music & sound fellow, Merche Blasco, creates her custom instruments to imagine alternative uses of audio technologies that challenge decades of presumptions around musicking, instrument design, and the sounds produced at the intersection of music and technology. She will bring some of these instruments as well as performance videos for this presentation to share her process and motivations for creating them.

8:30 pm
Video-performance
Jiyoung Yoon

Jiyoung Yoon will share a video overview of her art practice, which consists of songs, scripts, letters, notes, and various other writings that led up to her sculpture, video, and performance works. All of these will be narrated by the artist in Korean, her mother tongue, with English subtitles.

9:00 pm
Performative intervention: She Saw Him Stealing He Saw Her Burning (prolog)
Grażyna Roguski

Performer: Matilde Bassetti, Brenna O

Grażyna Roguski‘s performative intervention responds to Joan Jonas’ video performance He Saw Her Burning, which Jonas performed in 1982 as a fellow in the former AEG factory in Berlin’s Wedding district. Roguski takes the original script of Jonas’ performance and some of the formal aspects as a starting point to rearrange them in a tableau vivant. Like Jonas, whose residency in West Berlin was marked by an experience of isolation, Roguski is directly influenced by her spatial surroundings and everyday objects during one of her artist residencies. Roguski takes elements from Jonas’s video, such as masking and tracing and overlaying images, and interweaves them with her own photographic archive, the bodies of the performers, and the setting of an endless dress rehearsal.