PUSH AND PULL

PERFORMANCE SERIES AND EXHIBITION
TURNING POINTS

In 1963 Allan Kaprow developed the performative installation Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann, for which he designed two furnished rooms and invited the visitors to rearrange them based on a set of instructions and his statement Each day things will change. This idea of constant change, of overturning, is the starting point for a performance series and an exhibition project that will take place in two interlocking chapters (the first in October 2010 in the MUMOK and the Tanzquartier Wien and the second in 2011 in the Tate Modern London).
The artistic positions invented follow the movement of Push and Pull in various ways engaging in a game of reflexion between installation, performance and choreography. Most of the art works can act and function as installations and as live performances. The formats of the presentation and reception influence each other and will be in a state of constant (ex)change.
At the same time, this permeable arrangement formulates an axis for the exploration of the "medium of performance" itself – one that is often chosen by artists in order to communicate ideas that are less tangible or theoretical or which do not have a defined physical presence. As such it is used as a means of conveying or carrying out discourses in the form of art works – and vice versa.
The themes of Push and Pull and their corresponding formal realisations are multifaceted. Sarah Pierce’s work is about the individual and collective forms of memory and archives in art, and will take its starting point in Allan Kaprow’s installation.
The artistic-theoretical questions in the performances stretch from Gregg Bordowitz’s and Paul Chan’s opera on the life and work of Michel Foucault, to Florian Hecker’s concern with psychocognitive effects between performance and exhibition, to Seth Price’s and Kelley Walker’s work on issues of representation, authenticity and identity in a society of spectacle.
The choreographic works articulate new challenges and processes of understanding: with DANCE Lucinda Childs creates a choreographic momentum that is just as much complex and characteristic of the contemporary as it is simultaneously contradictory; based on the principle of reformulation, deufert & plischke develop an interactive living and working space, the Emergence Room, and in his situatively motivated choreography Xavier Le Roy negotiates various figures of being together.

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GREGG BORDOWITZ ^(USA) / PAUL CHAN ^{(USA )}
The History of Sexuality Volume One by Michel Foucault: An Opera, 2010
FRI 1 OCT. + SAT 2 OCT. 20.30 in TQW / Hall G
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GREGG BORDOWITZ ^(USA)
Screening: Fast trip long drop
SAT 2 OCT. 18.00 in TQW / Studios
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EXHIBITION
Turning Points. Push and Pull
6 OCT. – 31 OCT. 2010 MUMOK Factory
Opening: TUE 5 OCT. 19.00

SARAH PIERCE ^(IR)
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS, 2010
TUE 5 OCT. 20.30 MUMOK
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DEUFERT & PLISCHKE ^(D)
Interactive Installation: Emergence Room
WED 6 OCT. – SUN 17 OCT. 14.00 – 17.00 MUMOK

SETH PRICE ^(USA) / KELLEY WALKER ^(USA)
Freelance Stenographer
WED 6 OCT. 20.30 MUMOK
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XAVIER LE ROY ^(F)
low pieces
THUR 7 OCT. + FRI 8 OCT. 20.30 in TQW / Hall G
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ANDREA GEYER ^(D/USA) / JOSIAH McEHLENY ^(USA) 
"The infinite repetition of revolt", 2010
MON 11 OCT. 20.30 MUMOK
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FLORIAN HECKER ^(D)
3 Channel Chronics
TUE 12 OCT. 20.30 MUMOK
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BOYAN MANCHEV ^(BG)
Lecture-Interventionen Arachnes
Metamorphosen I + II
SAT 16 OCT. + SUN 17 OCT. 16.00 MUMOK
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MIKE KELLEY ^(USA)
Three New Video Works (Première):
Documentary of Judson Church Horse Dance
Bridge Visitor
Documentary of a Performance with Paul McCarthy
Screening Day is Done (Austrian Première)
TUE 26 OCT. 19.00 MUMOK
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LUCINDA CHILDS ^(USA)
DANCE
FRI 29 OCT. + SAT 30 OCT. 20.30 in TQW / Hall E
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LUCINDA CHILDS ^(USA)
Artist's discussion
SAT 30 OCT. 14.30 in TQW / Studios

Screening
LUCINDA CHILDS (2006, 60 min, direction: Patrick Bensard)
SAT 30 OCT. 18.00 in TQW / Studios

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GENERAL TICKET
contains all performances, installations and the exhibition of Push and Pull: 55 €
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Push and Pull is a corporate, interconnecting performance series of Tanzquartier Wien and MUMOK in collaboration with Tate Modern London and curated by Barbara Clausen, Walter Heun, Achim Hochdörfer, Kathy Noble, Sandra Noeth and Catherine Wood.