Between Points was presented by Archivio Conz and Supportico Lopez in collaboration with The Performance Agency. Between Points was a boat ride from Archivio Conz into the city, with live performances by Ed Atkins, Juliette Blightman, Stephanie Comilang, Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano, Jessie Holmes, Tarren Johnson, Sebastian Lütgert a.k.a Robert Luxemburg, Xavier Mazzarol, Reto Pulfer and Günter Schickert.
Between Points was an exhibition of Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks at Archivio Conz directly on the water, taking the audience into the city by boat. The narrated ride wove a story of its surrounding, passing fleeting performance pieces along the river bed: the stages of the city. Between Points is an ascent to the fleeting, to looking up, to the overlooked.
The starting point for the performative engagements along the river bed is the ritualistic performance journal Between Two Points/Fra Due Poli by Hendricks, who worked closely with Conz for more than three decades. In the book and the accompanying edition produced by Edizioni Pari Dispari in 1976, Hendricks describes his journey through Norway (the land of his ancestors), his visits to Hermann Nitsch in Diessen and Prinzendorf, his time in Asolo and his respective return to the States, the performative meditations he creates along the way, the collecting of stones and the recollection of dreams. In Hendricks’ work, dream and reality are always of equal appraisal. His gentle, acute observations find a way into his intuitive performance works and texts, his dream boxes, and the many forms in which he painted the sky. Hendricks started his sky paintings in 1965, working at first with a pair of old work boots he found in a barn on his property in Nova Scotia as a painting object. They represent the beginning of Hendricks’ many pursuits in pulling heaven and earth together, connecting dualities, as the sky in its incomprehensible vastness forms the umbrella for our social relations and political realities. Painting chairs, boots, cars and sculptures with sky motifs, his paintings are grounded in deeply representational questions–Hendricks studied baroque ceiling painting–while at the same time becoming a literal continuum of this world as subject and object flow into one another.
Between Points has been made possible by the generous support of the Senate of Berlin and Fluxart GmbH. Thanks to Stefania Palumbo, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Shirin Kranz, Rainer Marquardt, the entire team at Archivio Conz and Hammersbach.