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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, still from "Moving Backwards", 2019, Choreography/performance: Julie Cunningham, Werner Hirsch, Latifa La bissi, Marbles Jumbo Radio, Nach
The Illusion of the End

Mudam Performance Season

Mudam Performance Season: The Illusion of the End is a two-week exhibition devoted to performance in contemporary art. The exhibition sees the ground floor of the museum play host to a series of new live performances by artists from Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Switzerland who are gaining international critical acclaim.

The programme features contributions by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz; Jacopo Jenna (b.1980, Florence); Nicholas Grafia (b. 1990, Angeles City, Philippines) and Mikołaj Sobczak (b. 1989, Poznań, Poland); and Vasya Run (b. 2014, Moscow). These artists are redefining the boundaries between theatre, dance and performance, drawing upon the multiple languages and forms of expression.

Titled after an essay by the influential French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End takes as its starting point the ‘fatal strategies of time’ that shape our ways of thinking about history and its imagined end.

Conceived in response to our present moment, a situation in which no clear resolution appears in sight, The Illusion of the End presents works that have been shaped by the continuous political and cultural upheavals of recent years, which have changed our collective and individual perceptions of time. As such, a perception of linear time is challenged by a notion that time is endlessly looping, according to our emotional, psychological and existential needs. The works in this programme raise questions about a collective sense of alienation and detachment, our futures and the possibility of radical change.

Programme of performances

Sunday 03.10.2021
14h00 –18h00 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz – Ongoing Performance with Arantxa Martinez and Renen Itzhaki
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-moving-backwards

Wednesday 06.10.2021
11h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 1 – No booking
15h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 2 – No booking
17h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 3 – No booking
19h00 Jacopo Jenna – If, If, If, Then (Expanded version) (2021)
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-jacopo-jenna

Thursday 07.10.2021
14h30 Jacopo Jenna – Désir Mimétique – Workshop Mudamini
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-mudamini-workshops

Friday 08.10.2021
11h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 1 – No booking
15h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 2 – No booking
17h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 3 – No booking

Saturday 09.10.2021
(Nuit des Musées – Tickets: luxembourg-ticket.lu)
19h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 1
20h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 2
21h00 Jacopo Jenna – Module 3
22h00 Jacopo Jenna – If, If, If, Then (Expanded version) (2021)

Wednesday 13.10.2021
14h00 Vasya Run – Solo 1
16h00 Vasya Run – Solo 2
19h00 Vasya Run – Stay here you are the main act (2021)
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-vasya-run

Thursday 14.10.2021
14h00 Vasya Run – Solo 1 – No booking
15h00 Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak – Failing on Stage – Art Freak Workshop
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-artfreak-workshops
16h00 Vasya Run – Solo 2 – No booking

Friday 15.10.2021
17h00 Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak – Rooms
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-grafia-sobczak

Saturday 16.10.2021
16h00 Vasya Run – Stay here you are the main act (2021)
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-vasya-run

Sunday 17.10.2021
16h00 Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak – Rooms
Booking: mudam.com/rsvp-grafia-sobczak

Credits

Curator:
  • Joel Valabrega

Artists:
  • Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz
    Nicholas Grafia and Mikolaj Sobczak
    Jacopo Jenna
    Vasya Run

Technical support by:
  • noc.turn asbl

Media partners:
  • L’Essentiel
    Mousse

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean thanks all donors and sponsors and particularly the Italian Embassy and its partners for their exceptional support, in the framework of the Italian Contemporary Art Day.