Black Market International: Trouble Festival, Les Halles, Brussels April 2006

Synopsis: A 90-minute video of Black Market International’s six-hour performance at Les Halles, Brussels in April 2006. The performances of BMI are exercises in derision, concentration, sacralisation and effacement. The performer tries to take life seriously while revealing that it is, in fact, worth very little - that it is held in a gesture, that it lasts only a moment. The work of BMI is to create these fundamental moments. BMI is also the art of encounter. There is never a common theme; the work is made according to a principle of open cooperation. Each performance must create a singular time-space complex, exhuming the structure of encounter so that we may regain possession of space and draw the invisible links that constitute it.

As well as providing extensive documentation of a recent BMI performance, the DVD also includes a unique 35 minute lecture written in 2005 by BMI member Jürgen Fritz. It gives an overview of BMI’s work from 1985 to 2005 and explores some central elements of their approach to performance. The video contains a very small amount of text spoken in various languages.
Series: Liveartwork Editions, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 2006
Subjects: Art; Drama
Keywords: performance art

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