Booklaunch: Art at Large

You are cordially invited to the booklaunch of Art in Large. Through Performance and Installation Art. Art at Large compiles essays on performance and installation art that were published in international semiotic journals.
During the book launch artist Alicia Framis (Barcelona, 1967) who blends in her work architecture, design, fashion and performance, will contribute a performance: “10 minutes inside”. Author Marga van Mechelen will speak on the transformations of the texts and graphic designer Ilke Gers will reflect on the handwritten format.

You are cordially invited to the booklaunch of Art in Large. Through Performance and Installation Art (ArtEZ Press 2013). Art at Large explores the characteristics of Performance and Installation Art, emerging forms of art in the 1970s that defied the notions and boundaries of medium-based approaches to contemporary art. Being considered as ‘democratic art forms’, they mostly express the intention of both a confrontation and a dialogue, or even interaction with the public. The presence of the artist and the immediate location of installations placed the focus of Performance and Installation art on the here and now. After forty years these art forms have steadily been gaining ground. Recurring motifs throughout the essays include the supposed authenticity of actions, the indefinite duration and unpredictability of outcomes, and the search for new forms and levels of perception through employing rituals and testing physical and mental limits of endurance.

During the book launch artist Alicia Framis (Barcelona, 1967) who blends in her work architecture, design, fashion and performance, will contribute a performance: “10 minutes inside”. Author Marga van Mechelen will speak on the transformations of the texts and graphic designer Ilke Gers will reflect on the handwritten format.

(Guided tour through the exhibition of the Curatorial Programme 2012/13 Bourgeois Leftovers at 17:00 hrs. Reservation required: reservation [​at​] deappel.nl)

Moes, bar and restaurant underneath de Appel offers a special meal for 12,50 euro between 6-7 pm, please make reservations: info@totmoes.nl

Price: € 29,90
Special retail price book launch @ de Appel arts centre 12 June €24,90