Salon #2 : Social Sculpting

Dorothea von Hantelmann is an art historian and a curator. She is the author of How to Do Things with Art (2010), one of the seminal works on performativity within contemporary art. Her current book project explores exhibitions as ritual spaces in which fundamental values and categories of modern, liberal and market-based societies historically have been, and continue to be, practiced and reflected.

Visual artists Hedwig Houben, Grace Schwindt and Laure Prouvost talk about the relationships between sculpture, performance and theatricality. An interesting parallel in their work is the search for activating objects that appear to be fixed, by turning them into theatrical players.  

Filmmaker Hito Steyerl and theatre director Rabih Mroué will engage in a conversation about their artistic cooperation. The common ground of their practices is the idea of storytelling as a way of exposing (political) fictions in society and bringing them back to the domain of art.

De Amerikaanse danseres en choreografe Loïe Fuller was een pionier op het gebied van moderne dans én theatertechniek. Dit Salon XL brengt onderzoekers en kunstenaars samen om haar veelzijdig karakter te ontrafelen en haar invloed op en erfenis voor hedendaagse performancekunstenaars – zoals Ola Maciejewska en Trajal Harrell – in kaart te brengen.