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Pascale Gray (2020)

Pascale Grau (born April 9, 1960 in St. Gallen ; resident in Ried bei Kerzers ) is a Swiss artist , curator and lecturer . She deals with performance , conceptual and video art . As a curator, Grau supervised numerous performance events in the Kaskadenkondensator Basel . As a board member of PANCH - Performance Art Network CH , she is committed to a Swiss-wide performance archive . A monograph on her work was published in 2009.

Training and work

Grau grew up in St. Gallen. She completed the primary school teacher seminar and four years of training in modern dance at Heiner Carling's HC studio in Bern . She then studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1986 to 1992 and received her diploma in visual communication . Bernhard Blume ( Free Art ) and Wilfried Minks ( Stage Design ) were among her teachers . Afterwards Grau was a master class student and assistant to Marina Abramović until 1994 .

Grau has been working as an artist, curator and lecturer since 1995 and appears regularly as a performance artist, among others with Andrea Saemann . From 1998 to 2006 she was part of the curatorial team and board member of the self-managed cultural institution Kaskadenkondensator Basel. She received further training as an art theorist in the MAS program of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Grau was a member of the Independent Performance Group (IPG) founded in 2003 .

In 1998, Grau called for Monika Dillier , Katharina Erich, Susanne Fankhauser, Lisa Fuchs, Muda Mathis , Barbara Naegelin , Andrea Saemann and Sus Zwick for the first manifesto of great and respected artists . In 2019, an updated version of the manifesto was developed and performed as a performance by the “Manifesto Reflex Collective” for the Swiss Performance Prize and honored with the Audience Prize.

From 2003 to 2005 Grau was a lecturer for performance in the field of media art at the FHA , Aarau and in 2008/2009 lecturer for performance art at the F + F School for Art and Design , Zurich. From 2010 to 2012 she headed the SNSF- DORE research project “archiv performativ” at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts at the ZHdK. Since 2007 she has been conducting performance workshops at home and abroad (India, Thailand). Grau also gives scientific lectures at universities, academies and technical colleges. She has been a board member of the PANCH network from the start.

Grau lives and works in Basel .

Quote and statement

«The performer uses her physical presence as a means of expression and exposes herself to the reactions of the audience. - Pascale Grau's installation works arise from the logic of performance art. Some of them are relics and witnesses of past actions, others transform motifs, ideas and images that were created in connection with live performances. "

- Katrin Grögel, 2002

“With the actions on and with my body, the use of my voice, but also the staging of images and moods, I want to arouse emotions. In the live performances in particular, I try to let my physical presence in the room become so strong that no one can escape it and broadcast it to the audience. "

- Pascale Grau, 2009

Awards

  • 2005 contribution from the city and canton of Lucerne. For Ushi-Gake & Ashi-Dori

Work (selections)

Performance and installations

  • ring ring , performance festival BONE 7 Bern, 2004 (with Judith Huber )
  • Ovation , 2005
  • Mimicry , 2006
  • Ushi-Gake & Ashi-Dori , Gessnerallee Zurich, 2006 (with Judith Huber)
  • Embodiment , 2008
  • In the Garden of Fiction , 2009
  • Discourse of Love , 2011
  • From the folds of time , 2017
  • Overdubbing , 2017 (with Claudia Grimm )

Video art

  • Ovation , 2002
  • Mimicry , 2006
  • Un tout petit peu , 2008

Exhibitions

Fonts

As editor:

Web links

Commons : Pascale Grau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ xcult.org: First Manifesto large and respected artists . (accessed on February 3, 2020)
  2. ↑ Deborah Keller: Ephemeral, but lively and current . ( Aargauer Zeitung September 23, 2019; accessed February 3, 2020)
  3. ↑ pascalegrau.ch: Quote (accessed on February 3, 2020)
  4. ↑ pascalegrau.ch: Statement (accessed on February 3, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Pascale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss performance artist, curator and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen