PETER BAREN Blind Dates With The History Of Mankind Performances 1980 – 2013
In the international field of performance art, Peter Baren (Haarlem 1954) has become one of the most important Dutch representatives. He has developed performance art in a broader and more anthropologically inspired visual language. In doing so, he showed that performance art had freed itself from the strict views of the early 1970s. Since then he has created a solid structure of performance series in which the human body, as it were, steps outside of itself and uses ritualistic actions to make statements about the spiritual state of humanity. Baren's performances always consist of a complex combination of Eastern and Western spiritual views that he combines with comparable ideas of traditional people on the one hand and contemporary subcultures on the ot
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Lecture, Book Launch, Performance and Interview: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam – in the framework of STAGE IT! (Part 3) A series of presentations on performance art.
Curator Public Program: Hendrik Folkerts. READ MORE at: PETER-BAREN 18 May 2014 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam -UK – BOOKLAUNCH
Below: Alex de Vries in conversation with Peter Baren. Dutch spoken. Interview duration: 22.48 mins. Also a lecture by Marga van Mechelen focussing on different aspects of Baren’s performances, the screening of ARK [UNKNOWN PLEASURES] from 2007, compiled from the Tel Aviv performances in 2005 and presentation of the first copy, with Dalstar. Video: Joeri Jansen.
In this English edition, which contains hundreds of images, Marga van Mechelen (lecturer history of art, University of Amsterdam) discusses the place of the work in its art historical significance within performance art. In a conversation with Baren, Bart Rutten (director Centraal Museum Utrecht / at the time Head of Collections, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) discusses the position and meaning of the work in the current art situation and international visual arts practice. Alex de Vries (essayist] gives an interpretation of Baren’s work from the practice in theatre.
The complete presentation can be visited in the category videos, dutch spoken.
PETER BAREN Blind Dates With The History Of Mankind Performances [1980 – 2013 ] with texts by Marga VAN MECHELEN, Alex DE VRIES and interview between Bart RUTTEN and Peter BAREN. ISBN 978-90-77794-12-8 224 pages.
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