WHITE MARKET Market Stall 

 grenzArt Part 2

 courtyard of Werk IV

 Kirschau, Germany

WHITE MARKET was represented by:

Claudia Kappenberg, Performance artist

Dorothea Seror, Performance artist

Tom Gonsior, Production, Documentation

Sabine Kuhn, Assistant

WHITE MARKET offered:

Interviews with Performance artists

Information about artists present at the festival

Forum of debate with artists and audiences Sat 19:00, Mon 19:00

Presentation of WHITE MARKET business plan Sun 19:00

Individual performances of WHITE MARKET artists:

Claudia Kappenberg, Sun 16:00 Bread Tools and Mittens, First Floor left

Dorothea Seror, Mon 17:00 Non Grata, parking lot of Werk IV

WHITE MARKET is a platform for performance artists, by performance artists.

WHITE MARKET is a Research Label, through which we investigate performance art and the business of performance.

WHITE MARKET references the performance association BLACK MARKET, who have performed together since the mid eighties. Some of the artists are present at GrenzArt. With the name WHITE MARKET we would like to propose a different positionality and to challenge the current relation between performance art and the established art market.

The ‘white’ in WHITE MARKET refers to values, which the art market has established for and by itself. In its lack of transparency and wilfulness the established art market barely distinguishes itself from a black market. It also determines the ‘value’ of the artist’s body as the central object of performance art.

WHITE MARKET is concerned with the market value of the artists’ body, with performance art as merchandise, with the individual body as material and the individual gesture as form.

Photos: Tom Gonsior