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BBB Johannes Deimling
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BBB Johannes Deimling email bbb@bbbjohannesdeimling.de phone +49 (0)1577-9585675 skype bbb.johannes.deimling web www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de + http://pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de
“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” [Charles Mingus]
Simplicity of Complexity To present complex contents, situations and moments in a simple and elementary way is a signature of the art of BBB Johannes Deimling: the term ‘Performance Art Povera' describes his works. These are the intersections that inspire and provoke his approaches to the perception of aesthetics, concept and content of his work. The ‘acted images [agierteBilder]’ of the artist are initially created purely visual, but gradually access to all the senses to create a holistic view on the banalities of everyday life with all its changes. With a deep interest in material and objects, their aesthetics and transformational potential BBB Johannes Deimling is entering the performative field with a pure visual approach. “It is not the action that makes the performance.” he says and points on the quality of an image created in combination with materials, objects and action in correspondence with space and time. Deimling forms first single images, the so called ‘acted images [agierte Bilder]’, consisting of reduced, simple actions often with only one object, one sort of material or one gesture. With a passion for details a visual alphabet of ‘acted images [agierte Bilder]’ accrues which allows him literally to write his Performances. Using the technique of Collage he combines several ‘acted images [agierte Bilder]’ allowing him to play in a cinematic way with his elements, gestures and objects by deconstructing the course of actions and putting the parts anew together. The pureness of his artistic language causes that those images melt together. During this process various intersections are appearing in which unpredictable new images emerges. Material and objects begin to perform as Deimling is treating them more like puppets. “What’s in my
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head”, “leaking memories”, “around the world” or “a rolling stone gathers no moss” are just a few titles of cycles in which BBB Johannes Deimling includes several performative Collages. From a simple single image the artist lines up a complex and holistic universe of visual imagery. The ephemeral performed Collages appear more poetic than descriptive and rather metaphoric than symbolic. The metaphor is an image which falls apart at any attempt of approaching it and invites the viewer to read the action in order to stop searching for words of explanation and to look for attributions. Deimling creates ephemeral images, not made to be interpreted and drown out the logic of language. The balance of the metaphoric, surrealistic image and transformation of the artist into a unique readable sign is what makes the works of Deimling so fascinating. The precision of his movements, the possibility of failure and the presence of coincidence achieve a pure visual sensation where simplicity generates this humorous magic moments which is in Deimling’s works immanent. The artist constantly invites to a dialogue between other art forms such as poetry, sculpture, architecture, dance, sound, drawing. His performative Collages are a forum for interdisciplinary discourses where Performance is used as tool for communication in which he invites the viewer of his works to take part in. The absence of rehearsal plays a distinct role and manifest the value of the creative act. Imagination and forethought are important tools which brings the artist’s concepts to life. This working method includes the failure, sharpen the focus and increases artist’s concentration on absolute being with the moment. Not rehearsing contains the sensation of a shared space while the action unfolds in front of the viewer. Based on these experiences Deimling creates visual knowledge which touches the base of memory, stroke the desires of tomorrow and manifest the beauty of now. Transfer of experience For over 15 years BBB Johannes Deimling invests much of his artistic research into the teaching and learning of performative processes. In 2008 he founded the independent educational and artistic project PAS | Performance Art Studies, holding festivals, studies and events on performance globally. Since 2012 he holds the position of associate Professor for Performance Art at NTA – Norwegian Theatre Academy at the Østfold University College.
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Teaching Performance Art is for Deimling “a performative act itself”. At the age of 27 BBB Johannes Deimling got his first teaching position for Performance Art and counts as a pioneer in this field. His didactic interest is to extract learning tools and experiences from performative art works and make them available for artists, art students, and as well teenagers. “Not everybody needs to get a performance artist”, but to understand performative processes is a vital knowledge which can inspire one self, life and society and of course all other art forms. Deimling activates, provokes and motivates this what is already there in his students. His teaching philosophy is closely connected with his artistic working method and he creates a didactic on Performance Art including Sculpture, Installation, Drawing, Photography, Video, Dance, Poetry, Theatre, Scenography, Music, … which makes his educational work flexible and distinctive.
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Performances / agierte Bilder (selection since 2000) 2014 - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #13", M:ST performative art festival, Calgary, Canada - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #10”, CREATurE Performance festival, Kaunas, Lithuania - "HEROSTRAT", with Andreas Pashias, Gallery Beton 7, Athens, Greece - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #9", "MilleFeuilles" Performance Festival, Nantes, France - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #8", with Lotte Kaiser, Savvy Contemporay, Berlin, Germany - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #7", Muthesius Academy of Art, Kiel, Germany 2013 - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #6", Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #4", Abierto de Accion, Malaga, Spain - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #3", PAO - Performance Art Oslo festival, Oslo, Norway - "a rolling stone gathers no moss #2", performNOW! festival, Winterthur, Switzerland - "green line", University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus - "around the world # 8", Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus 2012 - "I could“, PAE Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands - "Blanc #8“, performance art festival, PAB - Performance Art Bergen, Bergen, Norway - "around the world [part 2]", Fluxee performance art event, Turku, Finland 2011 - "around the world [part 1]", GuangzhouLive performance art festival, Guangzhou, China - "friendly fire", seahnak 3, performance art festival, Haapsalu, Estonia - "memorial for deceased performance- and action artists", galeria BWA,
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Bydgoszcz, Poland - "leaking memories [part 2]", LiveAction +, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden - "leaking memories [part 1]", Interakcje, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland 2010 - “I can’t, I can’t”, home sweet home, performance art festival, Berlin, Germany - "I don't wanna talk about it" [what's in my head #14], infr’action, Sete, France - "I can say what i want" [what's in my head #12], Perfo10, 3h+k gallery, Pori, Finland - “Lilly”, Las bas Biennale, Kiasma – museum for contemporary art, Helsinki, Finland - “Transparent Material”, Extension Series 2, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany 2009 - “What’s in my head III”, Perf09, performance art festival, 3h+k gallery, Pori, Finland - “speechless”, Orange-Festival IL NOSTRO GUSTO, St. Hyacinthe, Canada - “Don’t Hurt Me”, Chamalle [x], performance art festival, Pontevedra, Spain - “What’s in my head II”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany - “What’s in my head I”, k-salon, Berlin, Germany - “How to explain”, international Performance Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland - “Auto Aggression”, Galerie kub, Leipzig, Germany 2008 - “Illusion”, Perfo08, performance art festival, 3h+k gallery, Pori, Finland - “no rose without a thorn”, 7a*11d, performance art festival, Toronto, Canada - “My Way”, Preavis de desordre urbain, performance art festival, Marseille, France - “golden ship”, part of the exhibition Mnemosyne & Lethe, Dresden, Germany - “this is my land”, pro.existence, performance art festival, Schloss Bröllin, Germany - “six weeks, 7 days”, MOTION 4, performance art festival, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany - “read twice”, CCA, Center for contemporary arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
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2007 - “Cierpliwosc”, TVP Kultura, Warsaw, Poland - “D-249736810”, Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv, Israel - “daily work”, Creatures, performance art festival, s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands - “face to face”, Malamut, performance art festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic - “Don’t Hurt Me”, Mayflies, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK - “no rose without a thorn”, To Zrób, BWA Zielona Góra, Poland - “Word’s don’t come easy”, Eurasia, performance art festival, Poznan, Poland - “Genesis”, Interakcje, performance art festival, Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland 2006 - “Geduld”, Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany - “Genesis”, MOTION 3, performance art festival, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany - “Anstoss”, Wildwechsel, performance art festival, Frankfurt, Germany - “unsere Schuld”, Performance Lectures, performance art festival, Karlsruhe, Germany - “Genesis”, Modelarnia, Gdansk, Poland 2005 - “the juliette letters part V”, Performance Perimeters Symposium, Regina, Canada - “the juliette letters part IV”, AccionMAD05, performance art festival, Madrid, Spain - “BLANC”, fraktale IV:tod, Palast der Republik, Berlin, Germany - “Kopfzerbrechen”, 13. Performance Art Conference, Berlin, Germany - “Wille”, A PART Festival, Katowice, Poland - “Kannattlikus”, Vaal Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia - “Taxi Libre”, MORE LIGHT!, performance art festival, Havana, Cuba 2004 - “unter diesem Gesichtspunkt”, rencontres internationales, Paris, France - “Words Don’t come easy”, castle of imagination, performance art festival, Schindler´s Factory, Cracow, Poland - “Hope & Glory”, Live Art and Video Festival, Viinistu, Estonia - “success”, Kunstverein, Gütersloh, Germany
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2003 - “Haifa”, rencontres internationales, Berlin, Germany - “Wille”, 5th Baltic Biennale, national museum, Szczecin, Poland - “gezwungenermassen”, Gallery Schafschetzy, Graz, Austria 2002 - “Cover Your Tracks”, stadtraum()privatraum, performance art festival, Mannheim, Germany - “Eine kleine Kunstkritik”, Gallery art international, Gstaad, Switzerland - “Typus”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany 2001 - “Fressen und gefressen werden”, Bone VI, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland - “a war peace”, national museum, Szczecin, Poland - “Nationale Identität”, Hybrid, performance art festival, Münster, Germany - “Auf die Plätze, Fertig, Los”, École des beaux arts, Paris, France 2000 - “Gesicht verlieren”, Physical Vehicle, performance art festival, ICA, London, UK - “Hand aufs Herz”, 5. int. Performance Day, Giswil, Switzerland - “Gesicht verlieren”, Künsterhaus Mouson Turm, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Teaching / Lectureship (selection since 2000) 2014 - PAS #35 | "Resistance", concept, organization, realization, in collaboration with CREATurE Performance Festival and POSTgallery, Kaunas, Lithuania - "Notes on Performance Art", lecture, at the "Athens School of Fine Arts", Athens, Greece - "There's no smoke without fire", lecture on teaching Performance Art, Savvy Contemporay, Berlin, Germany - PASyouth "Imagine", teaching, in cooperation with Theater junge Generation, as part of the 5th Art Symposium "Doing. Learning. Convey. Performance Art in schools"Dresden, Germany - co - organizer of the 5th Art Symposium "Doing. Learning. Convey. Performance Art in schools", in cooperation with the University Dresden, the University Leipzig, Germany 2013 - PAS #30 | "the moment when the end surprises the beginning", concept, organization, realisation, CIPAF - Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus - PAS # 31 | "between the lines #6", concept, organization, realization, in cooperation with the Institute for arts and philosophy at the TU-Dresden and the university Köln and PAS | Performance Art Studies , Rehlovice, Czech Republic - "On Documentation", lecture and video screening, "Infinite Records", archive project at the NTA - Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway - PAS # 32 | "Absurdity", concept, organization, realization, In cooperation with the Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany - PAS #34 | "Alphabet 2", concept, organization, realization, as part of the study program at the NTA - Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway - "a rolling stone gathers no moss", talk at the reasearch days at Østfold University College, Fredrikstad, Norway 2012 - since 2012: Associate Professor for Performance art at the NTA Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway - PAS # 27 “After Image“, Performance Art Studies, in cooperation with the
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Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany - PAS # 26 “Object trouvé“, Performance Art Studies, in cooperation with the PAE Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands - “Word and Action“, lecture and workshop, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands - PAS # 25 “Don’t forget your keys!”, Performance Art Studies, Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finland - PAS # 24 “Themomentwhenanappleistooheavyandhastofalldowntot heground”, Performance Art Studies, in cooperation with the M:ST 5.5 performative festival and the Alberta College for art and design, Calgary, Canada - PAS # 23 “What is important?” Performance Art Studies, Satakunta University, Kankanpaa, Finnland 2011 - PAS #22 “What is important?”, Performance Art Studies, Art Academy, Guangzhou, China - PAS #20 “IN CONTEXT”, Performance Art Studies, with guest teachers Antoni Karwowski and Dr. Johannes L. Schroeder, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany - PAS #19 “intensified dialogues”, Performance Art Studies, Interakcje performance art festival, Piotrykow Trybunalski, Poland - since 2010: teacher for performance art and research, NTA – Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredikstad, Norway 2010 - PAS # 17 “somebody nobody everybody”, Performance Art Studies, NTA – Norwegian Theatre academy, Fredrikstad, Norway - PAS #16 “EXTENSION”, Performance Art Studies, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany - PAS #14 “Performance Art vs Live Art”, Performance Art Studies, Kutomo, Turku, Finland Lecture, Theatre Academy, Helsinki, Finnland - UTOPIA - politics and arts, performance art workshop, Weimar, Germany 2009 - Tutor of Susanne Irene Fjørtoft (BA), NTA – Norwegian Theatre academy, Fredrikstad, Norway - PAS #7 “GRASS N ASPHALT”, Performance Art Studies, Berlin, Germany - Performance Art – a tool for social action, performance workshop organized by the European Culture Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Performance Seminar, in cooperation with Prof. Marie-Luise Lange, TUDresden, Germany 2008 - PAS #5 “What is important?”, Performance Art Studies, in cooperation with FADO – performance art centre, Toronto, Canada - PAS #4 “URBAN DISORDER“, Performance Art Studies, Ecole des beaux art, Marseille, France - Lectureship, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin, Germany - Lectureship, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia - PAS #2 “Performance”, Performance Art Studies, Art Academy, Mainz, Germany - Lectureship, Art Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel - Performance Seminar, in cooperation with Prof. Marie-Luise Lange, TUDresden, Germany - Founder of the independent educational project : PAS | Performance Art Studies 2007 - Lecture “Notes on Performance Art”, Bezalel, school of the arts, Jerusalem, Israel - Workshop, Port Performance, Berlin, Germany - Lectureship, Art Academy, Tallinn and Art Academy Pärnu, Estonia - Advanced education, Bund deutscher Kunsterzieher, Berlin, Germany 2006 - Lectureship, Art Academy, Leipzig, Germany - Tutor of Dionys Dammann (BA), F+F - School for art and mediadesign, Zürich, Switzerland - Lectureship, Art Academy, Gdansk, Poland - Lectureship, HfG, University for Design and Art, Karlsruhe, Germany - Lectureship, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia 2005 - Lectureship, University of Regina, Regina, Canada - Lectureship, Technical University, Dresden, Germany - Lectureship, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia - Performance Seminar, University of Postdam, Germany - Performance Seminar, Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain
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2004 - Schoolproject “Mehr Licht“, with pupils from Germany, France, Poland with public presentations at the city galleries Brandenburg, Germany, Paris, France and Poznan, Poland - Lectureship, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia - Schoolproject, KliP, Kunst und Lernen im Prozess, Berlin, Germany 2003 - Lecture “Notes on Performance Art”, University Ottersberg, Bremen, Germany - Performance Seminar, Free Art School, Mannheim, Germany 1998 - 2011 - Lectureship, F+F - School for art and mediadesign, Zürich, Switzerland
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Links (Video, Publication, Websites) Video documentation - http://vimeo.com/109745823 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #13”, M:ST performative art festival, Calgary, Canada 2014 - http://vimeo.com/102814234 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #12”, PAS #36 | 'between the lines', Rehlovice, Czech Republic 2014 - http://vimeo.com/98796166 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #10”, CREATurE Performance Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania 2014 - http://vimeo.com/97921349 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #9”, Millefeuilles PERFORMANCE festival in Nantes, France 2014 - http://vimeo.com/98026775 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #8”, with Lotte Kaiser, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany 2014 - http://vimeo.com/82208504 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #6”, EACC - Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castellon, Spain 2013 - http://vimeo.com/82323315 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #5”, Abierto de Accion, Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain 2013 - http://vimeo.com/78539678 “a rolling stone gathers no moss #3”, PAO - Performance Art Oslo festival, Oslo, Norway 2013 - http://vimeo.com/50437429 “Around the world #3”, NTA - Norwegian Theatre Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway 2012
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- http://vimeo.com/44311973 “I could”, PAE – Performance Art Events, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2012 - http://vimeo.com/98134964 “Blanc #9”, Venice international Performance Art Week, Venice, Italy 2012 - http://vimeo.com/13607484 “Don’t Hurt Me”, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK 2007 - http://vimeo.com/13606798 “TAXI libre”, More Light! Art project, La Habana, Cuba 2005 - http://vimeo.com/18511647 “Blanc #5”, Podewil, Berlin, Germany 2001 - http://vimeo.com/82346022 “Words Don’t Come Easy”, Castle of imagination, 12th international Performance Art Festival, Ustka, Kraków, Bielsko-Biala, Poland 2004 - http://youtu.be/JwGWNO1ilxA “Around the world #8”, CIPAF, Nicosia, Cyprus 2013
Performance for Camera - http://vimeo.com/96112274: "Silver Skin”, 2014 - http://vimeo.com/79033097: “Deutschland, Deutschland”, 2013 - http://vimeo.com/31761416: “Teufelskreis”, with Ingolf Keiner, 2011 - http://vimeo.com/81947696: “I think about you”, 2010 - http://vimeo.com/16539983: “success”, 2004 - http://vimeo.com/16671413: “Bread or Alive”, 2004 - http://vimeo.com/84107733: “The Village”, 1999
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Publication - http://j.mp/1rxeoOj “HEROSTRAT”, 2014, catalogue, 38 pages - http://j.mp/1zMXuPr “a rolling stone gathers no moss”, 2014, catalogue, 166 pages - http://j.mp/PPLxX9 “It’s not the action that makes the performance”, 2014, catalogue, 220 pages - http://j.mp/1mkmyYr “The Leakers”, 2014, catalogue, 34 pages
Interview - http://tinyurl.com/BBB-Interview1 Articulation, art magazine, 2014 - http://tinyurl.com/BBB-Interview2 Tonic, life style magazine, 2013 - http://tinyurl.com/BBB-Interview3 PAO – Performance Art Oslo, member interview, 2014
PAS | Performance Art Studies - http://pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de official website - http://tinyurl.com/PAS-Note-Performances link list with selected performances made during the PAS studies - http://tinyurl.com/WhiteShirtMoment “White Shirt Moment”, publication, 72 pages, 2012
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- http://vimeo.com/84021307 “We don’t have an answer on everything”, video, 2014 - http://vimeo.com/89193731 “Applause”, video, 2014 - http://vimeo.com/105218353 “standing still”, video, 2014 - http://vimeo.com/104997207 “Rehlovice”, video, 2014 - http://vimeo.com/83623675 “This is how it looks like”, video, 2014 - http://vimeo.com/52878226 “Dive into another world”, video, 2013
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