Trace: Performance And Its Documents

For an audience to understand and relate to a performance, they usually have to be there to soak it all in. But Trace: Performance and its Documents is challenging that notion by exploring the relationship between performer and that with which they work, drawing on new commissions and contemporary works. 

It's a huge exhibition with many different pieces of art, with the more than 50 including video, photography, works on paper, and objects, as well as vaudevillian acts, feats of endurance and repetitive motions and actions.

The exhibition includes a variety of cultural contexts and impressions: there will be funny performances, there will be mind-shattering performances, and there will even be gut-squirming performances—everything that can possibly cause a viewer to re-question their own ideals about art.

And because art viewers come from all over the spectrum, Trace: Performance and its Documents has included works by such recognizable names like Ai Weiwei and Song Dong, along with newer faces like Agatha Gothe-Snape. And while each artist might not yet be a household name, that's second to experiencing their art in a uniquely interpretive way. 

It's an art exhibition that keeps a performance going long after the curtain's dropped, with various objects, texts and images that keep echoing. For without these documents that give performance life, the performances themselves can disappear all too quickly. Take a look at Trace: Performance and its Documents to see what constitutes a performance's core, and how it still keeps the heart beating.