A Speech of Nature, performance, Arter, Istanbul, 2019
Photo: Ilgın Erarslan Yanmaz
Photo: Ilgın Erarslan Yanmaz
Performance invited by Edith Dekyndt for her solo exhibition INDIGENOUS SHADOW at Wiels, Brussels, 19 March 2016
Photo: Alexandra Bertels
Photo: Alexandra Bertels
'SHE HE SHE SHE HE', Scripted Plant, Lecture performance, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels, 2015
John Smith, the Posthuman, Performance, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2014
Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk and Sally Müller in the frame of followup (Schloss Ringenberg) in collaboration with the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht (NL) 2014, Photo: Harry Heuts
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The Centre for Dying on Stage, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2014
Performance & installation view, Performatik Festival, Kaaistudio's, Brussels, 2013
Photo: Laurent Fobe
(dis)Location was commissioned by Kaaitheater Brussels for Performatik 2013
(dis)Location was commissioned by Kaaitheater Brussels for Performatik 2013
STICKS, Performance & Installation, 2011
STICKS, Performance/Installation, Dimensions Variable, Coming People, S.M.A.K., Ghent 2011
Photos: Liam Singelyn
STICKS is simultaneously a performance, sculpture, drawing and installation. The performer holds 70 wooden ‘sticks’ in her arms. The regular visitors of the museum are invited to participate, without any regulations by the artist in advance. The audience is completely free to ‘build the exhibition’ themselves, without any instructions. After the performance, the installation remains as it was constructed by the audience. A video of this performance is displayed during the exhibition period along with the STICKS installation.
How to teach a plant the alphabet, Performance, 2009
How to teach a plant the alphabet is both based on works by Joseph Beuys and John Baldessari. In 1972 Baldessari created Teaching a Plant the Alphabet as a reaction on Beuys’ Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt (1965). In 2008 I already had done a personal re-enactment of Beuys’ performance, so it seemed natural to work further on this theme of explaining, learning and teaching. Instead on teaching the English alphabet I chose to use the Georgian alphabet, a language I could speak as a child, but had not spoken in the past fifteen years. The only thing I remembered was the writing of my first name. By teaching the Georgian alphabet to the plant, I taught it both to the audience as to myself. As a result of this performance I gained back a lost and forgotten language.
Belgica, Singing performance, 2008
Belgica, performance, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2008
How to explain pictures to a dead fish, Performance, 2008
Museum of Fine arts, Ghent, 2008
How to explain pictures to a dead fish, Ithaka, Leuven, 2008
Ithaka, Leuven
Photo: Jan Berckmans
This performance is Meggy Rustamova's personal interpretation and re-enactment of Joseph Beuys’ performance Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt (1965). During the performance Meggy Rustamova was visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent while holding a fish in her arms. The aim of the performance was to explain art to the fish. By doing this she tried to explain art to herself, considering the possibility of not succeeding in this task. She entered the museum as a regular visitor. This performance took place unannounced to the visitors of the museum.