Parasiting the public – one day of performative practice.
Workshop, 28.03. 9.00 – 17.00 h
In the workshop we will explore performative ways of intervening and irritating the public and work on deconstructing our own constraints. Starting from little exercises to collective rehearsals in the public space. We will thereby focus on the political statements you will bring to the workshop as a starting point and try to find a collective way to express it in the public of Porto in the afternoon. So please come prepared, full of interest in getting into the public (further details you will receive in the email after inscribing).
I am looking forward to work together with you!
INFO: For registration, please write a couple of sentences why you are interested in the workshop and how it connects (or doesn’t connect) to your own interest and practice. Please elaborate also briefly on a political topic you would like to engage with in the public.
For participation, please also attend the lecture on the 27th of February, 5pm.
Jakob Margit Wirth (www.jakobwirth.net) is an artist, activist and PhD Candidate in artistic research with a background in public art and sociology. They work in the public space and choose their artistic language processually, depending on context and theme. They use mediums ranging from performance art, video, social practice to direct guerrilla interventions. Their main interest is to intertwine the artistic field with politics and everyday realities by hijacking unknown systems and questioning the boundaries of norms – parasiting structures and using them for collective purposes. Jakob has worked extensively with collectives and is the co-founded the cultural project Die Blaue Blume e.V., collective Operation Himmelblick and the Project Space Make-up in Berlin. They has realized works and interventions in non-institutional public space (Chicago, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Santa Cruz, Kopenhagen, etc.) as well as in institutional contexts (Architecture Biennial Chicago, Museum Worpswede, Gorki Theater, Schillermuseum Weimar, Münchner Kammerspiele, Art Biennial Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Alte Münze Berlin, Allentown Center for Contemporary Art, US, etc.). They have taught at Bauhaus University Weimar, the Kunsthochskolen Holback, DNK, the Agogis Zürich and the Humboldt University Berlin. They is founder and editor of the magazine Parasite Art and is a guest editor for Kunstforum International.
They hold a Master’s degree in Spatial Strategies (Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee), as well as in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Bauhaus University Weimar), and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Politics and Economics, with periods of study in Madrid (ES), Santa Cruz (BOL), Holbaeck (DNK) and Chicago (US).