PROGRAM: LIVE GAME- PERFORMANCES,WORKSHOPS,ROUND TABLES,LECTURES-CHINA SITE & TIME: SOUTH GATE SPACE,798(DASHANZI)ART DISTRICT / OCTOBER 3,4 ARTISTS: BORIS NIESLONY (SPECIAL GUEST) CURATOR: CHINA ART PERFORMANCE PROJECT (CAPP) ORGANIZER: THINKING HANDS

LIVE GAME

Since its creation the festival has been focusing on performance art.
This year, China Art performance Project will invite few masters of the local and international art performance field to present a serie of performances and workshops.

Boris Nieslony that is recognized as one of the most prolific and significant contributors to performance art, presenting his work around the world, is one of the most appropriate figure in this field to represent and introduce performance art to a Chinese and Foreign audience in Beijing.

BORIS NIESLONY

Born in 1945 in Cologne, Boris Nieslony has dedicated his life's work to developing greater understanding of the philosophical, ethical, social, historical?revolutionary and insurrectionary implications of performance art and to disseminating these findings as broadly as possible. He is a tireless and inspiring advocate of the art of performance living, lying in the encounter of meeting. He advocates the practice through organising and attending many artists meetings internationally, publishing his and others theoretical texts, archiving work and creating performance and installation works that forcibly confront an existential unease and an alchemical, visual poetry. In 1985 Nieslony co-founded Black market international, a collaborative meeting of performance artists and in 1995 he founded Art Service association [www.asa.de] which acts as an agency to connect performance artists in a network. Since 1995 he has also established a series of annual events in Germany Permanent Performance Konferenz designed to both practically and theoretically investigate the possibilities of performance art.

"Usually I decide in situ how the framework for the performance should look. A not too big bag of helpful objects and fotos will accompanie me. I will accompany it.
I am also inspired by other human-beings, by materials from the surroundings as well as the given situations.

They offer themselves as carriers of ideas, in which they will have effects. A game of "Begegnung "(meeting) can develope. To appear, render the principle of "Begegnung", effect and influence, visible, then quickly disappear again. We, they and I do not need more time and space than that.

In one way it is very easy for me to write about my work / my concepts, on the other hand it is also very difficult. I approach things pragmatically, I do not have a style, I do not want to express anything. A thought arises, I let it take shape slowly, sometimes for hours and days / also months and years. At some point an idea emerges and with it usually also indications about form, and method for the presentation of the image. When I have then mentally realized this image as an action, a performance in my head, and it has evoked certain emotions - a touching of my spirit in a very direct way for instance, a personal distance, then it is time to realize the performance."