515 research outputs found
Civil Twilight and Other Social Works
No full textThe book results from Bodor’s collaboration with artist Roddy Hunter between 2004 and 2007, prompted by Bodor’s interests in the possibilities of disseminating performance art through archival research in contexts and to audiences beyond those of the original performance. It built on Hunter’s earlier project, ‘Civil Twilight’ (2000-2004), which investigated environments for societal production of civic understanding through a series of durational performances that encouraged discursive public encounters in civic squares and related urban environments.
Bodor and Hunter collaborated to document, archive and re-contextualise these works in and for gallery contexts. The exhibition, 'Begin Civil Twilight' (premiered Dartington, September 2005) presented the performances in retrospect through representing their 'concept'. It included original documents and objects, documentation and installations, and audio and video recordings made during the performances and in the archival research period. Six context-specific gallery works based on the artist’s memories and experiences, and involving documentation as source material, completed the exhibition, which was accompanied by a public symposium concerning issues raised by and during the original performances.
Using archival documents gathered/created for the exhibition, and transcribed interviews from the research, the book was curated as another, final way of disseminating and contextualising Hunter’s performance practice. While focusing on archival material gathered through Hunter’s and Bodor’s collaboration, research for the publication extended to cover a longer, 15-year strand of Hunter’s practice that he conceives as ‘social works’. Artists John Newling (UK) and Vassya Vassileva (Bulgaria), contributors to the symposium, were commissioned to contribute essays.
Supporting portfolio: photo documentation of ‘Begin Civil Twilight’ exhibition (CD); URL for information about ‘Begin CivilTwilight’; copy of wall text from exhibition, jointly authored by Bodor and Hunter; copy of research presentation by Bodor and Hunter as part of Dartington’s annual cross-college research seminar series
The Red Kiss of History:by Balint Szombathy
No full textRe-performance at the preview revisiting a 1972 photo-action included in the exhibition, curated by Judit Bodor
Liveness and its pandemical other:Review of Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir (eds.). Performance in a Pandemic. London: Routledge, 2021. 164 pp. ISBN 9780367761349.
Full text linkFeaturing "Presence at a distance: Alastair MacLennan and performing drawing in lockdown" by Judit Bodor, chapter 12
Silent Explosion:The Making of An Exhibition
No full textPublished on the occasion of the exhibition held November 14, 2015-March 20, 2016 at the National Museum Cardiff.Includes one booklet, Ivor Davies destruction in art (DIA) archive, catalogued and annotated by Judit Bodor
Presence at a distance:Alastair MacLennan and performing drawing in lockdown
Full text linkHow can the liveness of performance be sustained through mediated presence? How can performance artists reach audiences at times of physical isolation? What are the inherent difficulties and opportunities within performance art that curators can draw upon to respond to these questions after the COVID-19 pandemic? In response to these questions Judit Bodor discusses her approach – in collaboration with Adam Lockhart – to curating Scottish performance artist Alastair MacLennan's new body of performance drawing, LIM(I)NAL, using the artist’s archive website hosted by the University of Dundee. Looking at a range of ways that performance is mediated and materialised through exploring MacLennan’s central notion of ‘actuation’, Bodor situates the online exhibition within broader critical and curatorial approaches to liveness. The chapter concludes by reflecting upon the extent to which literal notion of liveness applied to performance art might disguise the fluidity and serendipity at the heart of MacLennan's practice which enforces, not distracts, from the holistic core and outlook of his work
Judit Kele - Kontraktus, Célebration Sologame
No full textIn Left Performance Histories, BERLIN, Judit Kele exhibited previously unseen photographs from her personal archive. In the re-performance ‘KONTRAKTUS – celebration sologame’ on February 16, 2018, Kele concluded her 40-year body of work by marrying her artist self to declare her choice of identity for a lifetime
Elegia by Roger Bourke
No full textA site-specific video and sound installation by Roger Bourke commissioned by York St John University as it's 2008 LUX Commission for Illuminating York festival. Curated by Judit Bodor as part of her Creative Fellowship in Teaching & Learning the artwork was installed at the Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York. elegia in Holy Trinity Church drew on the ‘human’ scale of the church as well as on the ‘mongrel’ quality of its architecture with its cycles of periodic neglect, repair and its current heritage context. The installation responded to both the metaphoric meaning and the unique character of the church’s box-pews and celebrates the traces of ‘ordinary intimate’ lives in the parish. LUX provides York St John's University’s Fine Arts graduates with opportunity to acquire professional experience. Previously this resulted in graduate commission opportunities for these artists to develop and exhibit works. While LUX 2008 kept faith with these aims it has set itself the revised objective of inviting curator Judit Bodor and artist Roger Bourke to provide current undergraduate students with professional awareness to produce next year’s commissions. Students were involved in the production of the installation from the start
Elegia by Roger Bourke
No full textA site-specific video and sound installation by Roger Bourke commissioned by York St John University as it's 2008 LUX Commission for Illuminating York festival. Curated by Judit Bodor as part of her Creative Fellowship in Teaching & Learning the artwork was installed at the Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York. elegia in Holy Trinity Church drew on the ‘human’ scale of the church as well as on the ‘mongrel’ quality of its architecture with its cycles of periodic neglect, repair and its current heritage context. The installation responded to both the metaphoric meaning and the unique character of the church’s box-pews and celebrates the traces of ‘ordinary intimate’ lives in the parish. LUX provides York St John's University’s Fine Arts graduates with opportunity to acquire professional experience. Previously this resulted in graduate commission opportunities for these artists to develop and exhibit works. While LUX 2008 kept faith with these aims it has set itself the revised objective of inviting curator Judit Bodor and artist Roger Bourke to provide current undergraduate students with professional awareness to produce next year’s commissions. Students were involved in the production of the installation from the start
Judit Bodor in conversations with ha
No full textThis is an edited, annotated and illustrated transcript of a series of oral history conversations with the artist Peter Haining (known currently as ha) conducted during June-July 2021 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. The conversations follow an alphabetical order of keywords relating to the history of The Attic Archive. The 95-pages PDF document has been deposited at University of Dundee Archives, NLS Scotland, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and NIVAL, Dublin, as a resource for research
Judit Bodor in conversations with ha
No full textThis is an edited, annotated and illustrated transcript of a series of oral history conversations with the artist Peter Haining (known currently as ha) conducted during June-July 2021 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. The conversations follow an alphabetical order of keywords relating to the history of The Attic Archive. The 95-pages PDF document has been deposited at University of Dundee Archives, NLS Scotland, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and NIVAL, Dublin, as a resource for research
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