s t e r e o s k o p _ is an international fluid collective dedicated to organising performance events which serve as a platform to a variety of performance art forms while maintaining a focus on visual arts. The festival has its roots in Zurich and has also been held in Vienna and in Chicago.
The stereoscopic effect is created by placing two offset images next to one another onto a stereoscope. Looking through the device, the images gain depth for a three dimensional effect to be observed. Likewise, we see performance as an art form that articulates images through body language in relation to time. Performance ties artists to their audiences and a timeframe, which in our eyes makes for an inherently political form of art. It formulates themes that are of current interest to our society, and we aim for our festival to uphold that political stance.
The deconstruction of performativity is also reminder to see behind the articulated imagery, to look after yourself as a human being and also consider other bodies as such. Stereoskop edition VIII therefore invited artists to articulate themes relating to the human body, empathy, health, pop culture and acceptance. We welcome diversity and inclusivity and oppose any display of xenophobic, racist, or sexist behaviour of any kind. We find that the desire to discuss is just as essential to our festival as the creation of an environment that encourages empathy, communication and creative freedom.
The stereoscopic effect is created by placing two offset images next to one another onto a stereoscope. Looking through the device, the images gain depth for a three dimensional effect to be observed. Likewise, we see performance as an art form that articulates images through body language in relation to time. Performance ties artists to their audiences and a timeframe, which in our eyes makes for an inherently political form of art. It formulates themes that are of current interest to our society, and we aim for our festival to uphold that political stance.
The deconstruction of performativity is also reminder to see behind the articulated imagery, to look after yourself as a human being and also consider other bodies as such. Stereoskop edition VIII therefore invited artists to articulate themes relating to the human body, empathy, health, pop culture and acceptance. We welcome diversity and inclusivity and oppose any display of xenophobic, racist, or sexist behaviour of any kind. We find that the desire to discuss is just as essential to our festival as the creation of an environment that encourages empathy, communication and creative freedom.
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The festival’s 8th edition, held in Glasgow for the first time on November 7 2019 at Civic House, centres around the split between performativity and empathy; the making and breaking of icons, their impact on the body as well as the appropriation and re-invention of standards they generate.
This project was first conceived of as an ode to Britney Spears’ career as a pop icon and is in no way meant minimise the very real issue of scrutinising a person’s mental health on a public forum. Rather, we want to shed light on that scrunity and propose it as a catalyst to explore themes of media obsession and meta-performative attitudes.
This project was first conceived of as an ode to Britney Spears’ career as a pop icon and is in no way meant minimise the very real issue of scrutinising a person’s mental health on a public forum. Rather, we want to shed light on that scrunity and propose it as a catalyst to explore themes of media obsession and meta-performative attitudes.