Dorothea Rust

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Dorothea Rust, If There Is A Heaven, performative Intervention @ Kaskadenkondensator Basel 2019

Dorothea Rust (actually Dora Anna Rust ; born November 15, 1955 in Zug , resident in Walchwil, ZG ) is a Swiss performance artist and dancer . Dorothea Rust lives and works in Zurich .

Life

Dorothea Rust studied from 1979 to 1983 modern dance in Zurich and Bern (rhythmic gymnastics and modern dance based on Laban technique , Graham technique , Cunningham-Limon technique , improvisation, classical ballet, Eutonie by Gerda Alexander , voice training / singing lessons, etc.).

She then moved to New York where she studied postmodern dance and performance from 1983 to 1991. From 1994 to 1997 Dorothea Rust trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique (ACAT) in Zurich and New York . 1999 to 2003, studied fine arts and from 2004 to 2006 MAS Culture / Gender Studies , both at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Rust has also been active as a curator since the early 2000s, for example with The Longest Day, 16 hours of non-stop performances in the open air (2004–2008 co-curatorium with Peter Emch ; since 2014 with Irene Müller) and GNOM group for new music bathing (2009-2015). In December 2019, together with Irene Müller, she organized for the first time The Longest Night - The Longest Night , 16 hours of non-stop performances, in the Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich.

Since 2000 Dorothea Rust has shown her performances at the Performance Biennale DEFORMES in Chile, at the ZAZ Festival in Israel, at the Live Art Festival Bangalore in India, at the Performance Art Center in Toronto or at the Momentum 5 platform for performance art in Brussels. In 2016 she received the Swiss Performance Prize.

Awards (selection)

  • 2016: Residency The Booth, Scalloway Shetland
  • 2016: Winner of the Swiss Performance Prize
  • 2015: Residency at the Hafnarfjordur Center of Culture and Fine Arts, Hafnarborg, Iceland
  • 2014: Recognition award from the STEO Foundation Zurich
  • 2013: Pro Helvetia Research Residency in New Delhi India
  • 2007: Performance Prize Switzerland from Kunstkredit Basel, with distinction
  • 1999: Zug year of work
  • 1992: Cultural award from the city of Zurich: annual contribution
  • 1989: Atelier stay in the cultural center Binz39 Scuol-Nairs
  • 1988: Residency at the Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, Philadelphia USA, with choreographer / dancer Deborah Gladstein New York

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017: easily digestible, Kunsthalle Luzern , group exhibition
  • 2015: Dashboard Kunsthalle Luzern, installation SHAKE IT after Simon Forti
  • 2013: The sky over Lucerne, exhibition and performance project in dialogue with Irene Müller (art historian / freelance curator, Zurich), Miriam Sturzenegger (visual artist, Lucerne) and Mario Marchisella (musician / composer / artist, Zurich)
  • 2013: oT room for contemporary art Lucerne , solo exhibition
  • 2011: Under trees, artistic projects in the Wädenswil castle park , group exhibition
  • 2006: Forum Vebikus Kammgarn Schaffhausen, solo exhibition

Performance (selection)

  • 2016: Performance Prize Switzerland : Performance 'Ritual for (the) one focus'
  • 2015: FADO Performance Art Center Toronto, in the program with Victoria Gray (GB); Performance 'EXERCISE / EXERCISE No. 6 '
  • 2015: KIPAF Kolkata International Performance Festival India: Performance 'l'animoteur_3'
  • 2014: ZWISCHENRÄUME , a performance art series, sihlquai 55 inspace Zurich: Performance 'BUTLER 1' in collaboration with Bernadett Settele
  • 2013: oT space for contemporary art Lucerne, exhibition project with four performances in dialogue: performance + installation 1 solo, performance 2 with Irene Müller, performance 3 with Miriam Sturzenegger, performance 4 with Mario Marchisella
  • 2012: ZAZ Festival 2012 Israel, Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv and Haifa, performances 'ANNA IX - What is real' and 'ANNA X - Achad and Wahid', lecture performance, workshops in collaboration with Monica Klingler
  • 2011: Live Art Festival Bangalore India, Venkatappa Gallery, Bar1 Studio, 1Shanthi Road, Jaaga, NGMA National Gallery of Modern Art, performance 'ANNA V - I want to get inside', lecture and workshop
  • 2010: momentum 5, Platform for Performance-Art Brussels, ART2WORK / Bellevue-Creative Brewery Brussels: Performance 'Seal Goldberg Variations - with carpet'
  • 2010: Migma Performancetage Luzern, Kunsthalle Luzern. Performance 'ANNA III - Exile on Main Street'
  • 2009: Performance Sunday in the Kulturpalast Wedding international Berlin: Performance 'Seehund Goldberg Variation I'
  • 2009: DatanzDa, kick-off, Tanzhaus Zürich
  • 2008: 2a Bienal de Performance DEFORMES Chile 2008, Diario La Nacion Santiago and MAC Museum of Contemporary Art Valdivia: Performance 'Dance MaEdlEy V and VI - el cuerpo es el lugar'
  • 2008: Kunsthaus Zug , Richard Tuttle exhibition, “DoppelPerformance” with Valerian Maly / Klara Schilliger and Malcolm Goldstein
  • 2007: Performance Prize Switzerland from the Kunstkredit Basel, Kunsthalle Baselland Muttenz
  • 2007: DatanzDa, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, transdiscourse in P3, performative lecture
  • 2006: International Performance Art 06 Turbine Giswil
  • 2004: Draft 20 years of the Binz39 Foundation, Kunsthalle Zürich , performance
  • 2002: Silence Meeting John Cage , Festival for New Music , Studio for New Music at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and Tafelhalle Nuremberg, performance and dance with Jeremias Schwarzer and Malcolm Goldstein

literature

  • Bernadett Settele: The framed presence of art reception. Insights for artistic art education. In: Kristine Preuß, Fabian Hofmann (ed.): Art education in the museum. Waxmann, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-8309-3545-2 , pp. 135-147.
  • Dimitrina Sevova , Corner College Zurich : Interview with Dorothea Rust , February 15, 2016, published in LUPE - section of the Internet platform of PANCH Performance Art Network CH
  • Sibylle Omlin (Ed.): Smoky Pokership - Space, Art, Exhibition, Transformation, Performance. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86984-413-8 .
  • Christoph Schenker and Andrea Portmann (eds.) The longest day - 16-hour non-stop performance from sunrise (5:28 am) to sunset (9:15 pm). In: MIND THE GAP, Kunsthof Zürich Materials and Documents 1993–2013. Series of publications by the Institute for Contemporary Art, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. edition fink, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03746-177-8 .
  • Véronique Ribordy: Un corps pour Dessiner , published in “ Le Nouvelliste ”, September 3, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothea Rust Practice AlexanderTechnik SBAT. In: https://www.emindex.ch/ . Experience Medicine Index Switzerland, July 31, 2014, accessed on March 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The longest day. Accessed March 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ DIE LÄNGSTE NACHT / THE LONGEST NIGHT 2019 - 16 hours of non-stop performances. Kunstraum Walcheturm, accessed on July 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Members of the jury of the Performance Art Award 2016 Maya Bösch, Michael Sutter, Lili Reynaud, Muda Matthis, Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Jury report. In: Performance Prize Switzerland. Performance Prize Switzerland, August 20, 2016, accessed on March 30, 2018 (German, /, English, /, French).
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rust, Dora Anna (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss performance artist and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH train