NON GRATA - ART OF THE INVISIBLES: Voluntarily Out of Focus

Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of the human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out.

NON GRATA is a international performance group from Estonia with floating membership. In Non Grata there has been more than 300 members during the last 12 years from all over the world. The main characteristics is anonymity in group work, ignorance of local art world and mass media. Non Grata Group has performed in Asia, Europe, South and North America with street actions, chaotic space and context specific performances and long lasting ghetto marathons.

A breath of life. If a thread running through it all were to be unwound, that would be it. With "Breath" Saskia Edens proposes just that, a mixture of breaths, in pairs- the breathing makes small holes in a sheet of ice which she carries around from person to person. The slowly melting ice generates the potential of physical contact n^between the artist and the visitors. (…)
Edens is one of those rare beings capable of combining grace and energy, violence and poetry. her performances are statements of the transformation of both matter and the body, and in a sense they parallel the world of scientific experiments where the final result is never conclusively established. We discover the magic of metamorphosis. Véronique Yersin

After living his childhood in Stockholm suburbs Peter Rosvik arrived to the Swedish-Finnish countryside Ostrobothnia in 1982 with his family. He initially studied to a chef before enrolling at art school in Nykarleby, Finland. Since 1994 his work has been exhibited in Finland, Scandinavia and Europe. Rosvik has worked in a variety of media, including fine art, video, sound, and installations. Since 2008 he has focused on performance art exploring what he calls "the often untrue distinctions between the artificial and the natural, the accepted and the thoughts beyond". Concepts that underpin cultural construction, such as belonging, marginalization, dialogue and other forms of socio-cultural phenomena appear to fascinate him. Rosvik enjoys the fictions and mutability of the ideas of performed identities. The contrasts and relationships that exist between the natural and constructed worlds suggest to him the potential of combining aesthetic experience and arts based knowledge with on site performances where he himself and the audience cannot control the art experiences generated.

Mathieu Sylvestre moved to Berlin in 2010 and experiments with noise in performance art. Mathieu's work focuses on bringing noise music with a plastic and physical/corporal approach. The sound is loud and makes matters and bodies vibrated. The air takes a solid dimension.