Performance 0:3 deals with Super-Powers, the artistic and performative examination of what lies beyond the occult that is in fact absorbed into the existing alignment of forces. The super-power that erupts in war and conflict and transforms itself into a Force Majeure, a necessity, a calling that cannot be resisted, governed arbitrarily only by history. What are these forces that shape and explain the spatial habitat and are placed both above them and in their foundations? They are called higher powers, The One or the Other, theological justifications, spiritual beings, The Matrix, an organizing system hidden from the eye. You can spot them in the artistic act that deals within the irrational, that aspires to reach beyond the mind, to the realms of coincidence, the sublime, the dream, the psychedelic and the mysterious.
However, the performance of super-powers is also the political, economic and material creation and production of social interests, mechanisms of power and repression. This is the performance that runs the super-control of the symbolic: the interface, the computer game, the Church of the mall, icon and brand, and the worship of a Big Idea, say, the nation. At the same time the super-power has the ability and strengths to invent and imagine a new organization of these structures, to design utopian environments and mark unmapped territories.
Within an artistic act, they are the forces of human action that both sanctify and destroy, create and annihilate, and re-examine the super-human.
Performance 0:0
Performance 0:0 is a new platform created in 2012 by The School of Visual Theater for facilitating dialogue among artists, students and theoreticians. The conference aims to enrich and expose the length and breadth of creation and research taking place in Israel and abroad in the field of performance, and share a foundation with a wide international community.
Special guests included: Sodja Lotker – Curator of the Prague Quadrennial, Stefan Kaegi – Director of the Rimini Protokol, Switzerland, Claudia Bosse – Director of Theatercombinat, Bojan Cvejic, Julian Maynard Smith Director of Station House Opera.
School of Visual Theater Jerusalem
The School of Visual Theatre was founded in Jerusalem in 1986 as an innovative Academy offering a new and inter-disciplinary artistic approach. Ever since, during its 27 years of activity, the school has established itself as a unique model of art studies and art practice in Israel and abroad.
The school aims to train Theatre Directors, Choreographers, Actors-Performers, Musicians, Video and Visual Artists, for whom performance constitutes a worldview and a field of research.
The school exposes its students to a multiplicity of artistic practices and skills as part of a learning process that we consider essential for the development of young contemporary artists in the 21st century. The school offers its students a wide spectrum of practice based workshops and theoretical classes ranging from the performing arts (Theatre, Dance, Performance), visual arts (Drawing, Sculpture, Installation, Lighting), and media (Video and Animation), while encouraging them to form an independent exploration in order to develop their own personal creative process.