ART IN PROCESS

Befreiende Kraft
Published October 26, 2011
Freeing Virtue is a wood cut series by bello benischauer in association with the Autumn 2011 in Langenlois/Austria. The work discusses themes of homeland, the familiar, the unfamiliar and one’s own cultural memory. Das immer schon Dagewesene wieder aufgreifen, es neu entdecken und e ...
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MANIPULATED
Published June 22, 2005
… deals with questions about nature and human beings, showing how the fragments and remains of pre-existing life forms become the starting point of new creation. Where do we come from? How far are we prepared to go? The urge to take control of nature, genetic engineering and searchin ...
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CURIO KIOSKS PROJECT
Published September 1, 2009
artistic documentation by bello benischauer about THE KUMASI SYMPOSIUM Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education through Art Department of General Art Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana July 31-Aug ...
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AGAINST ONESELF
Published September 24, 2012
… existence formed by discipline trying to protect ourselves through the adoption of different cultural behaviours/movements/teachings perhaps to get rid of the guilt we feel about living a good life perhaps to redirect our energy to prepare for disasters which can be anything we ima ...
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GALLERY WATCH
Published April 12, 2007
This TV interview accompanied an exhibition called ENLIGHTENED at the UWA Club Gallery (The University of Western Australia) in 2007 by GalleryWatch, WTV Perth bello benischauer: home visit and exhibition – spanning work from 2003 to 2007 Wake Up! WA – an artist interview durin ...
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TRESPASSING
Published February 1, 2019
Based on four different female characters, who speak in their text lines about the complexity of gender linked to identity, social interaction, power and oppression; about the interaction of gender with other things like race, class, culture, religion, sexuality and consumerism. In monolog ...
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FOOL’S GOLD
Published August 21, 2010
Fool’s Gold (developed in Sydney) is part of a bigger context of discovering different Emotional Seasons in Society and diverse cities/urban places. We generally address issues about identity and belonging arising from globalisation and human existence in a cultural diverse society. What ...
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LASTWOOD
Published December 31, 2011
LASTWOOD – 2011 HDvideo – 6:00 min, performance by bello benischauer supported by ATELIER ART IN PROCESS Everything I have is what I can give too: the red, most important piece/part of my life, the most precious thing, life as such, the family as ultimate entity or even more, ...
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BLIND DATE
Published April 19, 2011
invited performers will react through live performances to following artistic concept A performance-game with other artists: it can be performed in public or enclosed environment as an official presentation, performance, and live act. No concept; there is no specific theme; it is only a pl ...
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FILE994.11
Published November 11, 2012
The video performances made in this context are based on the following concept: Bello’s initial idea: a woman taking different books out of a box, quoting passages, and putting them back in the box. Looking for material, Bello went to the Fremantle Library. He explained there brief ...
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VICTIM
Published August 10, 2008
This installation is about running away, about being forced to be a functioning person, about how to be treated as an outsider, about social outcast, about struggling with individuality and fitting into a social system that one doesn’t really feel comfortable with. The installation ...
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INFERTILE FUTURE
Published July 20, 2008
video/sound installation, developed as a demonstration work for ISEA2008 Singapore, The International Symposium on Electronic Art … primarily refers to the biological inability of a man or a woman to contribute to conception. The role-play between man and woman: the ritual of approac ...
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DIGITAL TRILOGY
Published August 1, 2003
His work in digital video and performance was a key to the symposium’s international scope, and proved exemplary as to how a multiplicity of approaches to the new art of performance cinema provides a deeper understanding of many aspects of performance cinema – form, content, politi ...
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INTROSPECTION
Published July 15, 2012
The Existence Theatre, which transforms/sets specific aspects of the improvised performance style of the Commedia dell’ arte into a present day perspective, recalls in this particular act (like AIP has done before in previous performances) the usage of the bauta*. The originally sepa ...
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DER PRAGMATISIERTE
Published February 15, 2012
nach dem gleichnamigen Stück von bello benischauer in 2 Akten und 4 Szenen und in der Überarbeitung von elisabeth m eitelberger INHALT Das Stück bespricht heutige Stereotypen, wiederholt Gesagtes aus dem Alltag und spiegelt gegensätzliche und ungereimte Einstellungen wider. Der Pragmat ...
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REVIEW UNTIL2005
Published June 28, 2002
mona DETROIT/USA International Film & Videofestival 2005 NEW YORKs performance space barbes, Brooklyn USA presents PROJECT X 2005 DIGITAL TRILOGY at the Caught Short TAPgallery SYDNEY/AUS 2005 DIGITAL TRILOGY screened at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra: Sky Lounge 2004 ...
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STÖRUNGEN
Published October 3, 2013
STÖRUNGEN (Disturbances) by bello benischauer three live performances/interventions in public space at the Swizz Performance Art Festival PERFORM NOW! in Winterthur, Switzerland, 3 to 6 October 2013 with a Performance Lecture at the accompanying Symposium TRANS:SCRIPT – Kunsthalle Winte ...
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HUMANITY REENACTED

Saturday, 4. February 2023 at 20:00

It critically questions a global unfolding of uprooted identification with tradition and ritual and how this shapes today’s people and the individual. This recently written and highly topical piece by Existence Theatre is a philosophical examination about culture and humanity. It depicts how the phenomenon of war uses fear evokingmore

EXISTENCE THEATRE LABORATORY

Friday, 17. June 2022 at 16:00

EXISTENCE THEATRE LABORATORY operates on the intersection of visual, physical and performative art. Creating from such a place provides us with the chance to reach new people and hear their voices, while keeping an open mind for what may evolve. Our work investigates urgent, contemporary themes and stands for gendermore

Z6QCQ6 Code of Rituals

Saturday, 25. September 2021 at 20:00

a story about rituals and connectedness – written, directed, video and sound by bello benischauer ABOUT THE PIECE: The king has died. The law demands that Troja the queen needs to be sacrificed to the gods. Movement, dance, dramatic enactment, video and sound, poignant and engaging. A timeley reflection on how peoplemore