Annette Sonnewend & Michael Strasser (Cie. Agar Agar), Konrad, 26 March 2010, 7 p.m., performance, NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW, JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION, Duesseldorf
Since 2004, the artist duo Annette Sonnewend and Michael Strasser have pursued solo and joint projects under the name of Cie. Agar Agar. While initially focusing on video work, in the course of their cooperation they developed an increasing interest in live happenings and the presence of an audience. In their performances, the two artists slip into a variety of roles freely chosen from film, television and other media. A central aspect of their work is to use the contrasting relationship between what is quoted and what is performed to question the role of language in constructing reality, a process in which the audience becomes their unwitting accomplices. Starting point of their performance “Konrad“, which will be performed in the framework of NUMBER THREE: HERE AND NOW, is the pit Konrad, designated final nuclear disposal site in Salzgitter, Saxony-Anhalt. The visitors take part in a tour through the disposal site, in which reality and fiction are interlocked.
Programme
27.10.2009 Andrea Fraser
27.11.2009 Marina Abramović, Eunhye Hwang, Ragnar Kjartansson, Nico Vascellari
28.11.2009 WW in concert
12.12.2009 Andrea Zittel
18.12.2009 Dara Friedman
09.01.2010 Xavier Le Roy
22.01.2010 Bert Didillon, Stefan Ettlinger, Andreas Korte, Cornelius Quabeck, Sven Vieweg
06.02.2010 Christian Jankowski
27.02.2010 Jérôme Bel, Eva Meyer-Keller
13.03.2010 Sharon Hayes
26.03.2010 Keren Cytter, Michalis Nicolaides, Annette Sonnewend & Michael Strasser (Cie. Agar Agar)
09.04.2010 Jimmy Robert, Saskia de Keyser, Emma Hedditch, Ian White
24.04.2010 Jen DeNike
14.05.2010 Manuel Graf
28.05.2010 Joan Jonas
05.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
12.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
18.06.2010 Tris Vonna-Michell
19.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
26.06.2010 Tino Sehgal
03.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
10.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
16.07.2010 Simon Fujiwara
17.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
24.07.2010 Allora & Calzadilla
29.07.2010 John Bock