Monday, March 30, 2009

Visiting Artist Lecture: Helge Meyer

Helge Meyer
Born in Woltwiesche, Germany, in 1969.

Formed the Performance Art Group System HM2T (with Marco Teubner) in 1998.
Since 2000 Meyer is associated with the international association Black Market International. He performed in festivals like Exit in Finland, in Italy, at Aozora Art in Japan, Open Art festival in China, PiPaf in the Philippines and intensively in Canada and the USA. Helge Meyer works parallel with Black Market, System HM2T and solo.
Meyer owns a diploma in Cultural Studies (University of Hildesheim, Germany). He is a writer for art magazines like Inter (Canada) and teaches performance art workshops and theoretical classes. As a researcher he is interested in questions of pain, duo work, cooperation and the history of images. In 2007 he finished a doctoral thesis about the image of pain in Performance Art (Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany).
Bio quoted from http://www.performance-art-research.de

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
12:15 pm Room B209

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