Oral Culture

Oral Culture is a parallel program with the objective to produce a life performance which is ‘orally based’. Oral Culture runs parallel with the gallery exhibitions, and takes place in the gallery or any alternative venue if required by the artist.

22/01/09
Mario Garcia Torres
Chinese Whispers

17/12/08
Pierre Bismuth
The End of Silence
Piano: Alain Baents, Performance: Kurt Vanmaeckelberghe
Duration: ca. 25 min.

20/11/08
Kurt Schwitters Ur-Sonata
Performed by Michael Schmid
Duration: ca. 20 min.

04/07/08
Manon de Boer
Switch (live version)
Performed by Michael Schmid
Duration: ca. 15 min.
Followed by the book launch of ‘Manon de Boer’, published by Frankfurter Kunstverein and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.

07/05/08
Tris Vonna-Michell
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29/03/08
Jonathan Monk
Classified Football Results
Duration: ca. 10 min.

29/02/08
Robert Barry
It is, it isn't

25/01/08
Indeterminacy by John Cage
Recited by Will Holder and accompanied by Manon de Boer's Attica.