PERFORMATORIUM (Olivia Jaques & Marlies Surtmann) is researching the question of repetition and actualisation of past performances through the lens of body-to-body transmission of artistic performative practices. In this Research Catalogue exposition we collect reflections on our methodologies and terminiologies and its development processes.
PERFORMATORIUM is an artist-researcher duo (Olivia Jaques/Marlies Surtmann) as well as a laboratory for practice-oriented research with and through artistic means. Jaques/Surtmann have been working together since 2012: As part of the artist-curator collective Friday Exit (2012-2016), they experimented with various exhibition and discursive formats, ran a book club and founded Performatorium in 2017. One focus of the Performatorium is the interconnectedness of the local performance landscape in Vienna. Up to 2020, it offered space for joint experimentation and exchange as an independent, queer*feminist platform for performance. Currently the Performatorium explores the artistic realm as a laboratory by developing artistic performative research methods, activating and updating past performances.