Andrea Saemann & Katrin Grögel - Performance Saga: Valie Export (2004)
By Valie Export
Performance Saga No. 2: Valie Export The second part of Saemann and Grögel's 8-part documentary/interviews with Female performance art pioneers. Andrea Saemann & Katrin Grögel Performance Saga: Encounters with Women Pioneers of Performance Art 2007 Performance Saga transmits and updates the history of Performance Art on many different levels and promotes a dialogue between the generations. The project includes the conception and realization of performance pieces, the publication of video interviews and the planning of events. Video interviews of eight American and European women pioneers of Performance Art. The artists, now between 63 and 74 years old, played an important part in the 1960s and 1970s in establishing and developing this, at the time, new art form. They were interviewed for Performance Saga by Andrea Saemann and the artist Chris Regn (b. 1964, co-director of the Hamburg archive). In this dialogue between artists, the first women performers talk about their work and the conditions under which it arose, giving glimpses into how they think and position themselves. The Edition provides an informative and accessible introduction to the study of Performance Art and offer…
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