port performance

13^th (Saturday) of January 2007
15.00 o'clock
Mud Bath (Mudaravila), Ranna pst. 1, Pärnu, Estonia

as part of the IN GRAAFIKA Festival 2007

From the 5^th to the 15^th of January 2007 the international artists and Performance Art teachers Angelika Fojtuch & BBB Johannes Deimling will give an intense workshop in Tallinn and Pärnu in Estonia with 14 students and artists from seven different Art Schools and Art Academies from Estonia, Germany, Austria, Finnland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Poland. During the workshop the students will discover their bodies and spirits as tools with which they will create ephermal actions based on personal subjects like: Identity, Faith, Exchange, Food and others. The students will transform their personal bodies into an universal sign, that will transport a private message.

On the 13^th of January 2007 at 15:00 o´clock the members of the workshop will show the results of the intense days in a final presentation at the Mud Bath (scroll down for more informations) in Pärnu as part of the IN GRAAFIKA Festival. “CUMA” (HAWSER) is the Titel of this event and underlines the idea of art in motion.

Mudaravila The neo-classicist building is often referred to as a symbol of the spa and was erected according to the design by O. Siinmaa, E. Wolffeldt and A. Nürnberg. It was completed in 1926-1927 to replace the bathing establishment that was destroyed in the fire; the chimney of the mud kitchen of the previous bathing establishment was tried to make use of. The wings were built in 1929 and 1935. The sculptural forms decorating the mud baths were created by the sculptor O. Mellik. Since a few years the Building is not in use and from time to time the city of Pärnu open the doors for art and art actions.