AUTOBIOGRAPHICTION | 2011

The Biography Tent / changing facts

FOR CHANGING FACTS THE BIOGRAPHY TENT IS INSTALLED BY VERLEGT VERLAG – GALEAZZI&VERWIMP

AUTOBIOGRAPHICTION
re-imagining a common Biography

In this tent, Verlegt Verlag sets up a manufacturing site for a public rewriting of biographical facts, de- vised for free transformation into a storyboard for the future. The performance-installation instigates the production of an Autobiographiction: the first Best-Selling-Autobiography ghostwritten by its audience. Under the assumption that individual experience exists only as common good that can be used by everyone, the tent provides a rotating working console for collaborative re-writing of the displayed material.
Galeazzi&Verwimp are investigating methods of not-negotiated collaboration through the principles of complicity, exploring new solutions for the rela- tionship between the common and the individual. Following this research they aim to write at the prologue Autobiographiction during Burning Ice. This will be performed by placing the artists’ entire biographic material at the disposition of every- one, seeking for the dramatization of “defining moments” or essential turning points in their praxis, through a process of reading, writing, speaking and watching.

VERLEGT VERLAG AND ITS IMPRINT COYOTL YOURNAL  IS MANAGED BY AND NICOLAS Y GALEAZZIJOËL VERWIMP, IMAGINING A DEMOCRATIC FRAMEWORK WITHOUT MANDATE AND REPRESENTATION. VERLEGT VERLAG WAS CONCEIVED IN ORDER TO RESEARCH MEANS OF PRODUCTION & DISSEMINATION AND TO CREATE A FRAMEWORK FOR PERFORMANCE ON PAPER IN ACCOMPLICE WITH A GROWING NUMBER OF PERFORMERS, WRITERS, AND INSTITUTIONS.