Artist talk with Ana Hoffner on May 21, 2010 is part of the queer exhibition “Untold Stories”<\/p>\n
The artist talk takes place at
\nTallinna Kunstihoone, Vabaduse v\u00e4ljak 6, Tallinn, Estonia.
\nFree entrance.<\/p>\n
Ana Hoffner is a writer and performer working in the fields of queer and migratory\/ (post)colonial politics. In order to challenge the politics of marginalization in contemporary Europe, Ana Hoffner creates a performative practice that consists of re-enactments, interventions, lectures and workshops. In hir talk s_he will show two works, I\u2019m too Sad to Tell You, Bosnian Girl! and Movement, privatized. I\u2019m Too Sad to Tell You, Bosnian Girl is a re-enactment that re-contextualizes two artworks, a video performance from Bas Jan Ader and a photograph from Sejla Kameric. The lecture performance investigates the practice of self-reflection and challenges the model of civilization and security. The precondition for successful self-reflection is considered as its failure at the point at which all human existence is defined: it is the nonhuman, which is blamed for transforming the civilizing model of space-time into a zone of barbarism, underdevelopment, and uncontrolled affect.
\nThrough the re-enactment of Bruce Nauman\u2019s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner in the Perimeters of a Square in the work Movement, privatized another attempt is undertaken to re-articulate the relationship of body and space for the present time.
\nNauman\u2019s movement takes place with direct involvement of the audience when it surprisingly turns to Oleg Kulik\u2019s performing as a dog and approaches questions of migration and queer bodies in post-Fordist society.<\/p>\n
Ana Hoffner is a writer and performer who lives and works in Vienna.<\/p>\n
Lisainfo\/more: www.kunstihoone.ee<\/p>\n