FREDA FIALA
writer, researcher and curator focused on performance-based artistic practices
THE “Non-fungible Body?” BOOK
Edited by Alfred Weidinger/OÖ Landeskultur, Freda Fiala, River Lin
Catalogue for the Performance-Festival “The Non-fungible Body?”, 17-20 June 2022, OK and Musiktheater Linz
DISTANZ VERLAG Berlin, July 2023, 297 pages. Design by studio yukiko
The catalogue gathers extensive visual materials and writings by Freda Fiala, Geraldine Juárez, Rose Lejeune, and Bruce Quek to circle the project’s artistic and curatorial capacities: it convenes artists who examine the cultural significance of live performance and the living body’s relation to the virtual economies of our time with a view to the fairly recent phenomenon of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). The title The Non-Fungible Body? serves as a leitmotif for speculations on performance and digital technologies. While the body and the digital tools it employs are ever more difficult to tell apart, physical identities remain important vehicles of multifaceted and contradictory social and political processes.
Participating artists: Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Marita Bullmann, Yun-Chen Chang, Beatrice Didier, Jan Hakon Erichsen, Maria Kulikovska, David Henry Nobody Jr. in conversation with Anika Meier, Sara Lanner, Sajan Mani, Boris Nieslony, Yiannis Pappas, Jianan Qu, Xavier Le Roy, Sarah Trouche, and Rong Xie (Echo Morgan)
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