This page is dedicated to the field of performance practices.
As a platform for artist to share and show work, 4bid features some of the performance artist part of a group currently named [404].
They are on a series of residencies framed by Home of Performance Practices, ArtEZ in Arnhem NL, developing their research and collaborations.
The artists featured below have different backgrounds, different countries of origin, and propose looking at performance in different ways.
They meet in the Netherlands every other month to share work and feedback with one another and develop their practice with the support of the group.
Micro residencies Feb-May 2021
February 20-21, 2021
ERYFILI DRAKOPOULOU
During my residency I did a 5h live-streamed open studio experiment that was aiming to interact with the audience over the decisions taken and the actions performed on the photos of my ancestors. While I am researching the possibilities of re/de-constructing identity through the manipulation of family archives with collage, I intended to explore how an individual’s family tree affects-concerns-becomes a collective question on identity and how the responsibility of the ways we choose to look at the past, affects present and future narratives.
LINK TO WORK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ma_jrP9ow
FOIVI PSEVDOU
In walked in 4bid Gallery in different paces until I could not walk anymore.
I talked and connected time to my surroundings: ‘There is a time to read the graffiti on the walls …’
LINK TO WORK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G1rBXz70WM
March 13-14, 2021
EMILY WELTHER
A 24 hour residency; three artistic research projects taking place in the same space for the same duration; a re/experiencing of own work through the playing with and overlapping of the work of colleagues. Video, sound and live performance.
LINK TO WORK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaiCX4ZcNo
IRINA BALDINI
not bodies
not material.
It is not a proof
not what I intended it to be
not confusion.
I intended it to be confusing.
it is a body. virtual.
it is a proof
it is what I had intended
not vague
not mine
not live
it is not alive
it is not a memory
it is not a fiction
I distrust fiction.
it is vague
it is a memory
all is a fiction.
not loyal
not ephemeral
not unforgettable
not digits
it is also digits
I distrust digits.
it is memorable.
It is not nothing
make it be less.
It is a reaction.
Someone said reacting is one way of responding.
It is not a wilful reaction.
It is not a shadow.
It is not its shadow.
It is not the shadow of that performance.
It is not what it is.
I’m back.
It’s a digital performance.
A performance of digits.
Fingers. Fingers digiting things. What things? No-things.
No thanks. No real things, at least, no digital prints left. No prints.
No real fingers either. No digital art. No digits, no art. No party no fun.
Not for somebody. Not for us. Not to be performed. Not numerable. Not digitable.
LINK TO WORK: https://youtu.be/_f-j2C27jsI
KORINA KORDOVA
A residency weekend at 4bid gallery in Amsterdam sharing artistic practices and research materials with artists Emily Welther and Irina Baldini. The residency was organized in the frame of the module “Wild Bodies”, designed by our cohort at Home of Performance Practices master programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
LINK TO WORK:
https://korinakordova.com/2021/03/28/4bid-gallery-residency/
March 27-28, 2021
ELLA TIGHE
The Hospitality of Surrender
How to invite surrender, how to take care, harness and create space for it.
Surrender not as an action but as an unfolding through movement processes.
Surrender as a state of which is dropped into, a softness, a gentleness, an assertiveness.
At OT301 I worked with the 2 movement practices that I investigate surrender through. A FORM solo – days 58 & 59 of an ongoing process. Then a STREAMING practice, in which I work with musician Nikkie Kemp to allow surrender to emerge through an idea of formlessness – with music and movement emerging together out of the present moment.
ANUSHKA NAIR
During the residency at OT301, I explored the intra-action of the materiality of my flesh and the textures and materiality of specific objects I used during the day. I was interested in recontextualizing them to discover the change in relation, affect and perception of these commonly ‘used’ objects when taken outside, in the natural environment.
PFA the photos
LINK TO EXCERPT: https://youtu.be/O6uqfgs-Qew
APRIL 10-11, 2021
ANTRIANNA MOUTOULA feat. SANDRA GOLUBJEVAITE
The first attempt to combine my practices of nonstop talking and nonstop writing by performing them simultaneously and nonstop in front of an offline audience. It took place during the 404 residency @4bid gallery, OT301, Amsterdam. With Luiza Jaffe, the other artist-in-residence we curated an event where our performances and set ups partially overlapped. My set up consisted of a table, a laptop, a mic, a chair, a spotlight, and two projections – one showing my screen as I was nonstop writing, and the other showing the live interactions (result of live coding) of artist and collaborator Sandra Golubjevaite with the live written text.
LINK TO WORK: https://www.antriannamoutoula.com/ilikethelongerversion (scroll down for 4bid residency documentation)
Photos: I.B.
MAY 2, 2021
JESSICA RENFRO
As part of my ongoing research into participatory art and collective creativity, I am developing a game where the Earth is shattered and a new story created by participants must help to form a new one. This early prototype tested the cross-platform ability of the text to appear on screen and revealed some of the dynamics at play when the online participants could help shape the world with their words but not control the movement or speed of the avatar.
LINK TO WORK:
https://vimeo.com/544908839
SEE WORK OF OTHER 404 MEMBERS via this link:
https://ephemeralitiesgroup.weebly.com
WHO THEY ARE:
Luisa Jaffe Misiuk Barbosa
