Presentation to conclude the residency
About this Event

Public Sharing with Zhana Ivanova
15/11 at BAU, Entrepotdok 4 Amsterdam

Doors open: 19.30h
Start presentation: 20.00h
End presentation: 21.00h
BAU minibar and aftertalk: until 22.00h

Zhana Ivanova (Bulgaria, 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice involves rearranging and reconfiguring patterns and structures to which we have grown accustomed. She frequently uses performance in order to induce situations where interpersonal relations fluctuate. Language plays a key role, and power relations are of central interest. Her constructions are initially formal and rule-governed; yet within them she insistently exposes the ambiguity of her own rules.
Zhana was educated at Queen Mary University College, London, DasArts Master in Performance, Amsterdam, and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
Presentations include a.o. Kunsthalle Basel, Astrup Fearnley Museet Oslo, Fondation D’Enterprise Ricard Paris, ARCO Madrid, Elevation1049 Gstaad, Municipal Gallery Coloredo-Mansfeld Prague, De Appel Amsterdam, Playground Festival Leuven, FIAC Paris, Mendes Wood DM Sao Paulo, Ellen de Bruijne Projects Amsterdam, Framer Framed Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou Paris, Roberts Art Foundation London, Lafayette Anticipations Paris, Oude Kerk Amsterdam, Performatik Biennalle Brussels.
Imaginary Magnitudes
Zhana Ivanova is interested in descriptive language and its capacity to speak worlds into existence.
During the residency she'll be exploring the relationship of language to imagination, drawing on her approaches to script writing and creating structures for unrehearsed performers to navigate.
She'll be experimenting with performative mechanisms, featuring both rehearsed and unrehearsed performers; and be playing around with multiple narrator models, implementing actual and imaginary points of view, seeing in what way she can arrive at articulating more elaborate and polyphonic accounts and perspectives.
A memory of a swimming pool on September 23, 1986 will serve as a reccurent organising image during her explorations.