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Documentation of the duo performance “兩位呀！ 唔該！ Table for Two” by Jing Pang & BBB Johannes Deimling, performed at Furnace, Hong Kong 2024.
with photographs by Monika Deimling
“I don’t know how it happened, but it did.”
Sound composition, 10:51 minutes
Part #7 of the work cycle “MYSTERIOUS BARRICADES”, 2024
14. March 2025
Performance and workshop as part of the MAP performance festival, Trois-Rivières, Canada
13. – 19. April 2025
“Temporal Frame”, PAS | Performance Art Studies #94, Salon am Moritz Platz, Berlin, Germany. Apply here
26. April 2025
“Stärke”, Performance Art Evening, curated by BBB Johannes Deimling, with Lisa-Marie Porst, Frida Schramm, Antonia Baehr, Kartoffel Galerie, Dresden, Germany
19. – 22. June 2025
Laboratory of Perception, Lecture and Workshop, Grotowski Institue, Wrocław, Poland. Curated by Arti Grabowski
“The Poetics of Presence – Performance as a Liminal Gesture”
Lecture by BBB Johannes Deimling at the Grotowski Institute, Wrocław Poland
Crisis has always accompanied human existence – not just now. Perhaps the frequency of catastrophic events has increased, or perhaps our ways of perceiving and responding to them have sharpened. Artistic research is deeply intertwined with this perception; it does not merely observe, but actively participates, shaping creative forms that engage with the political and the urgent.
Despite the vast reservoir of scientific knowledge and logic at our disposal, we often neglect or outright reject it. A tree does not invent the axe, yet humans devise ways to sever their own roots. When logic alone proves inadequate, we can turn to another realm – one that has always been with us. The universe of poetics, of metaphors, of the surreal and the magical, offers a way of feeling beyond the purely rational. Here, poetic art is not a luxury but a necessity.
This talk will explore the intersection of poetics and performance art, considering how ephemeral actions can serve as acts of resistance, transformation and heightened presence. Drawing on my own artistic practice, I will explore how poetic strategies challenge habitual perception and invite a more attuned, sensory engagement with the world. Can performance function as a liminal space where meaning remains fluid and unfixed? How does poetic practice disrupt dominant narratives, allowing us to inhabit new ways of feeling, thinking and being together? At a time when language itself is often co-opted and emptied of meaning, how can poetic art and performance art restore its potency?
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“I founded PAS | Performance Art Studies with the vision of creating an independent and free space for exploring the practice, theory and philosophy of performance art. PAS is an independent art and education project with an organic structure that is flexible and can respond to new trends in art, education and society. The artistic process is the center of all activities. The project structure in the form of artistic research studies is very closely related to the essence of performance art rooted in visual arts. The exchange of research, experience and knowledge as well as the exchange with other art forms is the vision of PAS and aims to create an international network of artists, teachers, professors and students.”
Quote by BBB Johannes Deimling, baked into cookie letters by Ola Kozioł.
“IN THE WORKS”, publication, 106 pages, documentation of performance art works by BBB Johannes Deimling 2010 -2022.