Pioneers of performance art and theory, Manos Petropouleas (born Greece, 1988) and Julia Schmidt (born Germany, 1994) began using their own bodies as the subject, object, and medium of their work in the early 1970s.
For the presentation Manos Petropouleas & Julia Schmidt: The Students are Present: Scholary Re-enactments and the Impossibility of Presence, the Fall Term 2018 Seminar of Performance Theories and Methodologies first oral presentation (curator: Dr Dirk Gindt), Manos and Julia are performing an original work for a select audience in Room 101 on 21 November 2018.
Spectators are encouraged to sit silently across from the speakers for a duration of Manos Petropouleas’s and Julia Schmidt’s choosing, becoming participants in the artwork presentation. The Students are Present is Manos’ & Julia’s longest performance to date. (Stockholm University 2018)
There will be an artist talk after the performance.
PRAISE
“Manos Petropouleas’s & Julia Schmidt’s investment in aesthetic studies has paid off brilliantly. They have been one of the key figures in bringing performance art into the institutions of performance art histories fully and with all of the contradictions this entails. They have fully entered the most conservative modernist institutions within the performing arts academia, as the Stockholm Univeristy exhibition confirms.” – Manos Petropouleas and Julia Schmidt
Julia Stina Schmidt
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