Performing Critique

Artist talk by Nadine Khalil with Lisa Großkopf, Pat Reis and Mehrta Shirzadian

Artist Talk: Performing Critique, led by independent critic and curator Nadine Khalil, currently in residence at PART, brings together Vienna-based artists Lisa Großkopf, Pat Reis and Mehrta Shirzadian to consider how they use performance to examine the systems that place demands on their labour and artistic production. Their practices interrogate the pressures of self-optimisation and marketability in the art world, the technological amplification of sensory perception and bodily capacities, and microbial processes that act as agents within the body.

Together, these practices examine how neoliberal and institutional infrastructures shape what bodies can do and how they are valued. They ask how human, technological and microscopic bodies are regulated and controlled within systems of power, and how performance can reconfigure these hierarchies through humor, slowing down or performing otherwise.