Tag: Helge Meyer

Germany

Helge Meyer has been presenting solo, duo and collaborative performance art in Europe, Asia, Canada, South America, Australia and the USA since 1998. He is one half of the performance art group System HM2T with Marco Teubner (established in 1998) and since 2000 he has been performing as a member of Black Market International. Meyer teaches performance art workshops and theoretical classes at the University of Hildesheim and High School in Germany. As a researcher he is interested in questions of pain, cooperation and the history of images. In 2008 he received his PhD in Art Science/Art History from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany, publishing his dissertation as a book that same year.

Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre at the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art.

Every breath has its own quality. Once you breathe in, there is no chance to control what is going on inside your body. If you transform the idea of breathing into a question about the content of philosophical values, is it the same? Once you “inhaled” an idea, is there no chance of re-questioning the content? Is religion a drug? Do we still need to know about sins? What is a sin? Maybe the answer is to be found if the black water is inhaled…

This new performance work of Helge Meyer deals with the idea of breathing as a visible sign of being alive. The performer is searching for poetic images that make the fragility of human existence obvious.

PROGRAM & EVENTS

Performance: Pneumatic Vision: Cut by Helge Meyer
October 21, 2010 @ 8:00 pm
Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Performance Art Dailies: Artist Talk
With Jeffery Byrd, Helge Meyer, Gwendoline Robin, and moderator Berenicci Hershorn
October 22, 2010 @ 12:00pm–2:00pm
Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor Street West, Toronto

© Helge Meyer, Pnuematic Vision: Cut, 2010. Photo Henry Chan.