An essay on curatorial strategy, performance and dance histories, and radical transformations of archival works. The essay examines Moments: A History of Performance in 10 Acts (ZKM, 2012) and the work of Simone Forti and Meg Stuart.
Homepage: Simone Forti, Face Tunes, 2012. © the artist.
The Ghost Time of Transformation was first published in:
Moments: A History of Performance in 10 Acts, eds. Georg Schöllhammer, Peter Weibel, Sigrid Gareis, Walther Koenig, 2013.
and in another version in:
Assign & Arrange: Methodologies of Presentation in Art and Dance, ed. Maren Butte et al., Sternberg Press, 2014.
Images from the original catalogue below
Read the second version of the essay below
Marina Abramović, Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (installation view), 1975. © the artist.
Lab artists perform Yvonne Rainer's Trio A, 1966-1978. Photo: © ZKM and Franz Wamhof.
Meg Stuart, Forti playing Face Tunes, 2012. Photo: Franz Wamhof. © the artist and ZKM.
Simone Forti artist talk, 2012, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst
Sanja Iveković, Inter Nos, 1977. Courtesy of Künstlerin. © the artist.