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Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair
Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery 

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The performance Total Romance: Partial Repair is the centerpiece of Isabel Lewis and Dirk Bell’s joint exhibition Ever/​Repair at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, and is performed by four performers. In collaboration with the two artists Lewis and Bell, the vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery alter the newly adapted piece Maskarade (1970) by Sylvia Wynter in relation to the in-situ exhibition, by playing and interacting with it.

Artists

Participating artists

Dirk Bell

*1969 in Munich, lives in Berlin

Solo (a.o.): Galerie Wedding (2022, with Isabel Lewis), BQ, Berlin (2022, 2016), QBBQ’s, Berlin (2019), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (2016), The Fireplace Project, New York (2015), SVIT, Prague (2013), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2011), The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2011), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2009); Shows (a.o.): Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), Kewenig, Berlin (2022), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2022), BravinLee Programs, New York (2021), 1969 Gallery, New York (2021), Halle am Berghain, Berlin (2020), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2020), Sexauer Gallery, Berlin (2017), Halle für Kunst Lüneburg (2017), Haus Mödrath ­– Räume für Kunst, Kerpen (2017), Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2016), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) (2015), Witte de With Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Rotterdam (2014), GAK Bremen (2013), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2011), Drawing Room, London (2010), Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2009)

Isabel Lewis

*1981 in Santo Domingo, lives in Berlin

Solo (a.o.): Galerie Wedding (2022, with Dirk Bell), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2021), Kunsthalle Zürich (2020), Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2013), MoMA PS1, New York (2010), New Museum, New York (2009); Shows (a.o.): Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), 58. Biennale di Venezia (2019), 14th Sharjah Biennale (2019), Klöntal Triennale, Kunsthaus Glarus (2017) Tate Modern, London (2017), Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2017), Mofo, Contemporary Arts Tasmania, Hobart (2017), McaM Shanghai (2016), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2016), Dia Art Foundation, New York (2016), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2015), Gothenburg Biennial of Art (2015), Liverpool Biennale (2014), Kunsthalle Basel (2014), PS122, New York (2010)

Rupert Enticknap

lives in Berlin

Rupert Enticknap (UK) is a Berlin based vocalist, performer and artist. Their trans-disciplinary practice oscillates between and within opera, contemporary musics, dance and installations. They work mostly in collaboration with other artists and institutions. His approach to voice is highly influenced by notions of the choreographic, approaching music-making primarily as a bodily practice and working through the body to find non-linear paths of inquiry and performativity. Rupert’s own work is currently occupied with notions of failure, masculinities, the body as archive and English folk dance. 

Yann Slattery

*1997 in Vienna, lives in Basel

Yann Slattery (they/​them/​he/​him) living and working in Basel is an artist and performer working in the intersections of performance, fashion & clothing and performative multimedia installation. Their praxis often moves in in-between spaces and circles around failure – success, tragedy/​comedy, (ir)relevancies, intimacies and un-forgetting. Their recent interest lies in transforming spaces of intimacies of a strip club into their work, where boundaries of watchers and watched ones get blurry.

In their latest piece PLAYBOIS‘ together with Yevheniya Kravets they use queer fiction and game structures with the interest of mocking and tricking power dynamics. Which has been shown in Humbug Basel, Performative Screenings Vienna and Zentralwäscherei Zurich. Together with Catol Teixeira, Thilda Bourqui and Helena M. Kabwe they have been invited to Perrrformat Zurich and created a one time t4t4t4t Tragic Horror-Comedy Roses4S3x‘.

As a performer they’ve worked with Isabel Lewis at Kunsthalle Zürich for the Scalable Skeletal Escalator exhibition and for the Kantine in Sophiensaele, Nils Amadeus Lange, Monster Chetdwyd and Young boys dancing group.

More contributions

Diedrich Diederichsen
Vortrag 

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On the basis of his contribution to the publication, conceived against the backdrop of Poledna’s film produced in Los Angeles in the summer of 2024 especially for the exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Diederichsen will discuss and present Mathias Poledna’s artistic career with references to music and art history as well as pop culture.

Diedrich Diederichsen

Karel Císař
Lecture 

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In this lecture, Císař will explore Mathias Poledna’s career and artistic practice against the backdrop of the current exhibition, which can also be understood as a kind of retrospective. 

Karel Císař – Lecture

Mathias Poledna
Exhibition Tour 

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Mathias Poledna has created a complex, multi-layered body of work in which films, expansive installations and architectural interventions are in constant dialog with each other, where independent series of works, found objects and ephemeral materials all condense to form a singular artistic language. Central to his practice are questions of modernity, cultural memory and the visual imaginary in art and popular culture.

Ausstellungsrundgang Mathias Poledna