Boris Nieslony
[ Germany ]
performance
'Translation'
Sat. 7th May 2005
18.00
installation exhibition
[view by appointment]
8th - 29th May 2005

Nature, Nature? Nature???
What a big word for a small consciousness.
Performance. Performance??
What a small word for an endless consciousness.

Boris Neislony has dedicated his life¹s 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 artists¹ meetings internationally, publishing his and others¹ 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.

trace: is offered as a significant artspace that represents intersections between artistic disciplines. A place for wider
discourse and dissemination of contemporary art practice that¹s seeks to place emphasis on context in the working process. The focus is primarily performative - to explore the previously untried ways of Œthinking¹ and Œdoing¹ offered by time based art and work that emerges from this field - performance, video, sonic, interactive, installation.