Manuel Pelmus

Born in Bucharest in 1974, Manuel Pelmus lives and works in Oslo and the Romanian capital. A choreographer by training, his work is oriented towards the visual arts. He has exhibited at Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool, at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the OFF-Biennale in Budapest, the Kiev Biennale, the Centre Pompidou, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, at Para Site Hong Kong and the Venice Biennale. In 2012, he was awarded the Berlin Art Prize for performance arts and the prize for excellence from the National Dance Center of Bucharest in 2015. In Movements at an Exhibition, a performed reading that takes as its starting point the critical reception of his solo, Preview (2007), Manuel Pelmus reflects on the growing performance emphasis in the arts, on the economy of experience, production value, strategies of disappearance and the politics of visibility in our media-driven society. His talk centres on the limits fixed by the visible body. Here, more specifically, the boundaries between live performance and audio installation become blurred. The result is a different hierarchy in meaning, with hearing prevailing over sight.