Béatrice Didier

HERE AND NOW II, 15th july 2022 at Milford House, Convergence Festival

(...)

To be here and now

Now

Not

Not online

But here and now

This performance has been created for the festival Convergence.

Based on the text Here and Now (which became the soundtrack of the performance), the action took place from the office room to the entrance of the Milford House where an old beech tree stands.

Convergence of writing and speech
Convergence of past and present
Convergence of beings (tree and human)
Convergence of living beings

Photos @Jordan Hutchings.

With the support of WBI

SIX HOURS IN SILENCE, 18th and 19th june 2022 in Linz

Action :

From 4 to 7pm. During two days...

to sit in silence in front of a special mirror, by writing silence on a miror table.

Each visitor was invited to sit in front of traces of past performances in Linz and/or in front of me, by looking to each other. Here and now.

This performance was realized in the context of The Non-fungible Body performance, festival curated by Freda Fiala and River Lin, at OK Center for Contempary Art in Linz.

Photos @ Béatrice Didier, Nurith Wagner and Robert Maybach.

THE NON-FUNGIBLE BODY

17. - 19. June 2022 at OK and Landestheater Linz

Linz has a new performance festival. It brings together artists to address the importance of the live experience for our shared public sphere, focusing on the living body’s relationship to the digital economies of our time.

What do momentariness, uniqueness and (ir)replaceability mean to us, both in the context of the real and the virtual?

How do performance artists deal with the living body and its relationship to the virtual economies of our time?

This is an invitation to explore spicy intersections: of the body and the archive, of live performance and its digital renderings, of the physical space and the metaverse

With Cibelle Cavalli Bastos (BR), Marita Bullmann (DE), Yun-Chen Chang (TW), Beatrice Didier (BE), Jan Hakon Erichsen (NOR), David Henry Nobody Jr. (US), Sara Lanner (AT), Sajan Mani (IN), Boris Nieslony (DE), Yiannis Pappas (GR), Jianan Qu (CHN), Xavier Le Roy (FR), Sarah Trouche (FR), Rong Xie (Echo Morgan) (CHN)

Curators: Freda Fiala and River Lin

More Info and Program Booklet https://www .ooekultur.at/event-detail/performance-festival-the-non-fungible-body

VISE 8, exposition collective

VISE 8

Leaf/to leave, december 2021

Leaf/To leave

A day in silence

Proposal

On December 4,

At dawn,

When birds will sing for the sunrise,

I will go and enter in silence at 8, avenue de Visé in Boisfort.
In a house emptied of its old inhabitants,
In the solitude of a room,
I’ll read Eloge of silence without a voice.
I'll count the number of words "silence", "silences", "silently" ...

I'll extract them from the book.
Until this one empties itself of his/its silence/s.
Until this/these silence/s take shape differently in space.

It will be the end.

End of a day in silence.

This action is part of Pssst- a worldwide performance festival for silence and be silent, conceptualized and curated by Stefan US