Peter Baren
[ Netherlands ]
performance
'ARK (Frozen Footage)'
Sat. 5th Feb. 2005
18.00
installation exhibition
[view by appointment]
6th - 27th Feb. 2005

Everything you are about to experience has been put under the spell of a floating device (BLOW BLOW)

Peter Baren's work is mysterious, enigmatic and defy clasification. One of a kind. His previous works include:
I NEED YOU. (SteetTexting), Biel (CH) 2004- CURRENCY 2004 Festival. NYC (US) 2004- DISCOVER HEAVEN. Illegal performance, 50. Biennale di Venezia (I) International Performance Art Festival, Cleveland (US) Presidential palace, Bratislava (SK) Tate Modern, London (UK) 2003-2002- TransArt Communication 2002. Nove Zamky (SK)- PROGRESS PROGRESS, Mücsarnok, Budapest (HU) 1997- CARESSING THE DIKE. Flevoland, polderdistrict,(NL) 1996- BELLUARD FESTIVAL, Fribourg (CH) 1992- We Wanna Lose Our Heads For Anything- In Time. III. Spotkan Teatru Wizji i Plastyki. Poltel Filmstudios, Katowice (POL) 1991- Franklin Furnace with Seymour Likely , New York (VS) 1990- POLYPHONIX 14 Paris (F) 1989- Chisenhale Gallery and Dance Space and EDGE 88 (The Drop) London 1988- Steirischer Herbst. Graz (A) 1988- CENTURY 87. Amsterdam- National Review Of Live Art, Nottingham (UK) 1986- PERFO 3 and 1, Rotterdam (NL) 1985, 1983- WIRRA 7. Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, 1983 (NL) The Living Room, Amsterdam (NL) 1981-

Peter Baren has also received the Prix de Rome Art & Theatre award. He lives and works in Amsterdam.

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.

Peter Baren's work at TRACE is supported by the Mondriaan Foundation