Alternative Realities in the Performing Arts

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Barbis Ruder

At first glance, overlaps between game design and performative settings may not seem obvious at all. However, when taking a closer look at the two approaches it becomes apparent that both disciplines create spaces with certain sets of rules, and design characters that are subject to a certain conceptual and playful scope of action. As opposed to theatrical performances, performative art is a type of artistic play with its own reality. Usually, the authors are also the performers of their own ideas, themes and storylines. Performance is a political act and despite of its artificial setting it defines itself by means of real, personal and emotional realities, valid in their moment of action.
As such, performative arts contrast theatrical plays, which often occur within distance to what is being acted out. Playful elements aren’t equally prominent in all performative arts. However, they do help to establish room for improvisation, particularly within long-term settings, thus creating individual experiences. On the basis of her installative works, ranging from „Club Mindfuck“ and „Magistratsabteilung für Männerkultur“ (“The Municipal Department of Male Culture”) to „#L0V3_H4CK1N6“, Barbis Ruder will forge a bridge across practical examples in order to demonstrate the alternative realities within performative arts.

Biography
Barbis Ruder grew up in Heidelberg, Erlangen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Kerava (FIN) and Hinterzarten (GER). Following work and study stays in Freiburg (GER), Helsinki (FIN) and Breda (NL), she relocated to Vienna (AT) in 2010. Ever since then, she has been mingling her body with topics such as economy, work, intimacy and convention to form complex compositions manifesting themselves in the form of performances, installations, video works and sculptures.
Barbis Ruder is co-initiator of the artist groups Nachtgestaltungslabor, date-an-artist, Magistratsabteilung Männerkultur and the glam pop band What‘s Inside a Girl. She lives and works in Vienna.
Selected exhibitions and awards:
• 2017 scholarship of the Baden-Württemberg art foundation, Stuttgart
• 2016 BARBIS IN BABELAND, WUK performing arts, Vienna
• 2015 DOWN DOG IN LIMBO, honorary prize of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
• 2015 WERTSCHÖPFUNGSKETTE – 1B Kanon first place at the art award “GNADE“ of the Freiburg archdiocese, Villa Bosch, Radolfzell
• 2015 WERTSCHÖPFUNGSKETTE – 2F Attacke VIENNABIENNALE Performing Public Art, AIL Vienna
• 2014 WERTSCHÖPFUNGSKETTE H13 Lower Austrian Performance Award, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

Die Veranstaltungsreihe wird durch die Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und die Bundesstelle für die Positivprädikarisierung von Computer- und Konsolenspielen (BUPP) gefördert.