Alexandra Bachzetsis, «Notebook», exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, «Notebook», exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Notebook: Mermaid Porn, 2022, dialogue with Michel Auder, Emi Curty and Zeltia Robin.Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, «Notebook», exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Notebook: Sophia the Robot Sees Her Reflection for the First Time, 2022, dialogue with Safiya Sinclair. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Perfect: Antoine, Loren, Johanna, Priya, Alexandra, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Perfect: Antoine, Loren, Johanna, Priya, Alexandra (video still), 2023.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, «Notebook», exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, «Notebook», exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, An Ideal for Living, 2018; Catapult, 2018. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Secret Instructions, 2005. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Secret Instructions (detail), 2005. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Alexandra Bachzetsis, «Notebook», exhibition view, 2023. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, E. Sommer.
Notebook
Alexandra Bachzetsis
1 April–18 June 2023
Alexandra Bachzetsis (lives and works in Zurich/CH) views the conceptual and physical form of the human body both as a medium and as a process or substance. In doing so, the artist draws on the vocabulary of ‹pop-cultural› and commercial media such as film or advertising, as well as moments from the history of art, theater and choreography, which she simultaneously stages but also critically deconstructs.
At the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Bachzetsis presents her new work Notebook, which is shown as a performance and video installation. The project is a radical re-examination of her own biography as a dancer, choreographer and artist. The piece resulted from a dialogical method developed by Bachzetsis especially for this project. The collaboration with the project partners is evident in the diverse encounters that take the form of material and immaterial traces, voices and remnants. Themes such as lust, sexuality, excess, innocence, pain and transience are negotiated in the form of performative notes that manifest themselves in a plurality of voices, images, bodies and objects. The notebook as an indispensable companion to the artistic process, as a private archive of creative work and a medium for storing ideas for imagined future projects is a reflection of Bachzetsis` artistic affinity for the fragmentary and sketch-like in creative and performative thought processes.
The exhibition at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen presents Bachzetsislatest performance and at the same time embeds it in the artists multifaceted oeuvre, which takes shape in ephemeral moments and actions as well as documentary, written and multimedia languages of form. Through an idiosyncratic mixture of dance elements, performative strategies and self-recording practices, the body becomes a corporeal archive, the most subversive form of presentation of experience and the site of constant agency between past and present, occurrence and documentation, liveness and mediality.
- Performance ‹Notebook›
Alexandra Bachzetsis - Friday, 31 March 2023, 6pm
- Opening Alexandra Bachzetsis «Notebook»
- Friday, 31 March 2023, 07.30pm
- Performance ‹Perfect›
Alexandra Bachzetsis - Saturday, 1 April 2023, 02.30pm
- Performance ‹Notebook›
Alexandra Bachzetsis - Saturday, 1 April 2023, 5pm
- Guided Tour on Tuesday
- Tuesday, 25 April 2023, 6pm
- Art Snack
- Thursday, 27 April 2023, 12.30pm
- International Museumsday
- 21 May 2023
- Art Lunch
- Thursday, 25 May 2023, 12pm
- Guided Tour on Sunday
- Sunday, 18 June 2023, 3pm
In the context of the exhibition, a survey catalog of Bachzetsi's work, published by Roma Publications and edited by Hendrik Folkerts and Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, will be released.
Credits
The exhibition by Alexandra Bachzetsis is supported by Sophie und Karl Binding Stiftung (Sélection d’Artistes N°99) and Susanne und Martin Knechtli-Kradolfer-Stiftung. Special thanks to Gitti Hug.
Downloads
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