{"id":1749,"date":"2010-05-30T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/05\/alex_schweder_-_performance_re\/"},"modified":"2010-05-30T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T17:28:37","slug":"alex_schweder_-_performance_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/05\/alex_schweder_-_performance_re.html","title":{"rendered":"Alex Schweder &#8211; performance renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"alexschwederadvice.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/alexschwederadvice.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"318\" width=\"473\" \/>In a repeat of an event in Berlin,titled, <i>Its Form Will Follow Your Performance<\/i>, Alex Schweder is looking for five people in Seattle who want free architectural advice from a performance architect. Ideally, he says, the five will not be directly connected to the art world.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrimoreproject.com\/lp\/Lawrimore_Project.html\">Lawrimore Project<\/a>, where the results will be exhibited:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These people need to be of limited means, and willing to have this<br \/>\nprocess documented and agree to him exhibiting or publishing this<br \/>\ndocumentation.  He will then meet with these &#8216;clients&#8217; for about an hour<br \/>\nat Lawrimore Project and hear what is wrong with their apartments.  He<br \/>\nwill then give them free advice about how to renovate their apartment.<br \/>\nthey will go home and &#8216;perform&#8217; this renovation, document it and send it<br \/>\nto him via email.  They will then discuss the shortcomings and<br \/>\nsuccesses of the renovation and try it again.  This will again be<br \/>\ndocumented by the client.  This correspondence will continue until they<br \/>\nagree their apartment is renovated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schweder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am interested in taking what we usually think of as an object and<br \/>\nunderstanding it performatively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.introuble.com.au\/www2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=163&amp;Itemid=65\">Trouble<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rather than suggest a rearrangement of walls or different paint color,<br \/>\nAlex wrote a short set of instructions for each &#8220;client&#8221; to behave<br \/>\ndifferently in their home. This shift in action constituted the renovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><br \/>\nIts Form Will Follow Your Performance (Seattle)<\/i> runs at Lawrimore from June 9 &#8211; 16. Prospective clients can email their<br \/>\ninterest to: &nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:scott@lawrimoreproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">scott@lawrimoreproject.com<\/a> &nbsp;with the subject line<br \/>\n&#8220;Free Architectural Advice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Schweder is the 2007 Genius Award winner from the Stranger. Jen Graves story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=316786\">here<\/a>. My review of Schweder&#8217;s <i>A Sac of Rooms Three Times A Day<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/302048_visual02.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a repeat of an event in Berlin,titled, Its Form Will Follow Your Performance, Alex Schweder is looking for five people in Seattle who want free architectural advice from a performance architect. Ideally, he says, the five will not be directly connected to the art world. 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