?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Per%2FForm.+How+to+do+things+with%5Bout%5D+words&rft.creator=Young%2C+C&rft.creator=Pontbriand%2C+C&rft.description=Per%2FForm.+How+to+do+things+with%5Bout%5D+words+OPENING%3A+22+MAR+2014+23+MAR+%E2%80%94+21+sep+2014+Intensity+days+(program+performance)%3A+22+mar+(CONSULTAR+PROGRAMACI%C3%93N)+10+may+(CONSULTAR+PROGRAMACI%C3%93N)+20+sep+(CONSULTAR+PROGRAMACI%C3%93N)+CURATOR+Chantal+Pontbriand+Performance+and+performativity+are+centre+stage+at+this+time.+One+can+think+of+many+reasons+why.+The+fact+that+we+are+living+more+and+more+in+an+%E2%80%9Cimmaterial%E2%80%9D+world%2C+dominated+by+mediatisation+(which+some+call+spectacle)%2C+the+impact+of+globalization%2C+the+increasing+tendency+to+think+of+politics+as+biopolitics%2C+these+different+factors+enhance+performance+over+materiality%2C+or+object+making.+Performativity+explores+the+space+in-between%2C+what+happens+when+bodies+or+objects+are+left+to+perform.+To+perform+is+to+enable+oneself+or+things+to+work+through+form.+And+to+let+form+speak+for+itself.+Performing+and+performance+are+concepts+that+activate+reality.+They+are+at+play+with+the+world.+The+outcome+is+non-linear%2C+non-unidimensional.+It+opens+up+the+real+into+a+multifaceted+and+complex+organism.+In+this+sense%2C+performativity+(what+performing+and+performance+activate)+offers+resistance+against+a+homogenization+of+the+world.+It+leads+to+renewal%2C+change%2C+and+expands+the+potentiality+of+things+and+beings.+In+a+world+formatted+by+capital+and+the+weight+of+history%2C+we+need+change%2C+we+need+performativity+to+unblock+minds+and+situations.+This+exhibition%2C+conceived+as+an+event%2C+will+enhance+performativity+and+the+way+it+works%2C+the+way+it+performs+itself.+It+will+include+objects%2C+media+as+well+as+bodies.+It+will+be+%E2%80%9Clive%E2%80%9D+at+all+times%2C+as+installations%2C+photography%2C+films%2C+performances%2C+discussions%2C+inhabit+the+space+of+the+museum.+The+subtitle+of+the+exhibition%2C+given+by+the+concept+%E2%80%9Cper+%2F+form%E2%80%9D%2C+is+driven+from+John+Langshaw+Austin%2C+the+English+philosopher+who+was+one+of+the+founders+of+analytical+philosophy+and+pragmatics.+In+1955%2C+he+gave+a+lecture+called+%E2%80%9CHow+to+do+Things+with+Words%E2%80%9D+in+which+he+explores+the+relationships+between+acts+and+language.+The+book+published+in+1962+is+often+quoted+when+discussing+performance+and+art.+This+exhibition+further+explores+that+relationship+through+different+situations+proposed+by+the+exhibition+format+itself+and+by+the+works+presented+and+activated+in+its+midst.+Per%2FForm+refers+to+the+way+performativity+functions+in+contemporary+art.+In+Latin%2C+%E2%80%9Cper%E2%80%9D+means+to+go+through%2C+to+pass+through%2C+it+can+also+relate+to+purpose+or+meaning.+%E2%80%9CForm%E2%80%9D+is+a+way+in+which+an+idea+develops+into+a+shape%2C+the+way+in+which+it+acquires+presence+in+the+world.+The+project%2C+a+laboratory+situation+including+installations%2C+workshops%2C+and+performances%2C+will+explore+these+questions+of+how+art+deals+with+reality+in+a+performative+way.+How+artists+use+forms+to+create+meanings%2C+or+rather+multiple+and+open-ended+meanings.+Here+meaning+is+not+fixed%2C+it+fluctuates+as+relations+between+things%2C+ideas%2C+people+are+activated.+The+activation+can+be+produced+in+many+ways.+Some+works+activate+legal+texts+or+situations%2C+historical+and+institutional+displays%2C+the+way+knowledge+is+constructed%2C+how+political+life+is+organized+today%2C+and+was+so+in+historical+situations%2C+language+and+body%2C+the+idea+of+the+common%2C+the+idea+of+the+museum+or+of+art+or+art-making+as+an+institution%2C+how+visuality+interplays+with+images+and+sound%2C+how+the+body+interacts+with+the+reality+of+percepts+such+as+image+or+sound.+The+project+consists+of+different+modes+of+%E2%80%9Cdisplay%E2%80%9D%3A+the+exhibition+per+se+which+brings+together+16+installation+works%2C+some+of+which+include+live+elements%2C+others+which+can+be+activated+live+in+different+ways%2C+in+situ+works+which+will+be+activated+in+the+city%2C+and+performative+situations+which+will+be+concentrated+in+three+days+throughout+the+project.+These+are+the+Intensity+Days%2C+March+22%2C+May+10+and+September+22.+These+days+will+work+with+the+concept+of+%E2%80%9Cintensity%E2%80%9D%2C+as+outlined+by+Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois+Lyotard+in+defining+what+characterizes+a+work+of+art+seen+as+a+situation.+During+these+days%2C+there+will+be+further+activation+of+some+of+the+installations%2C+workshops%2C+talks%2C+discussions%2C+and+performances.+The+Intensity+Lab%2C+a+space+included+in+the+exhibition%2C+will+host+some+of+the+the+later%2C+and+archival+material+corresponding+to+the+whole+project+and+its+developments.+Chantal+Pontbriand+is+art+critic+and+curator.+Her+work+is+based+on+the+exploration+of+questions+of+globalization+and+artistic+heterogeneity.+Since+1970%2C+she+has+curated+numerous+international+contemporary+art+events%3A+exhibitions%2C+international+festivals+a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