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All true live is meeting. Meeting does not lay
in time and space, but space and time lay
in meeting.
Martin Buber

B.M.
is the name for a kind of cooperation between a few
European performance- and theatre-artists.
They do not appear as a group, do not write episodes together,
no themes.
B.M.
is not a property as a principle. By that it is guaranteed
that the performances have many different starting points.
The impulse can occur through each member or guest.

B.M. is an happening Condition that a number of artists demonstrate their performances in parallel to
one-another in one certain room and one certain time. These parallel performances are no created
episodes,no stories and therefore B.M. must not defined itself as a group.
B.M. is an artistic idea, is a chosen relationship beyond cultural limits, an International idea.
B.M. makes it possible for the artists to feel himself in the space, to adjust himself to begin and to end
an act, to present his repertoire to the full effect and to put it at one's disposal. Being as presence.
In the performance the "typical presence" of the artist and his handling is the main reason and
group for the meeting.
B.M. turns the perception of "Conceptual art" from head to toe. The synthesis is not to be draw, for
B.M. is exclusively an event. In the performance, a hidden hope is expressed immediately. The
person in dialogue with his partner vanishes and the narcissist, a technical, a news-media oriented
person appears. The public spirit will concentrates on immaterial and it will be released in the
manifestation
B.M. connects time as a formed event with elementary presence. In the performance objects (helpful
objects) become performers of the same values.
B.M. is a principle of ethnically and cultural dimensions that express themselves in pictures behind
pictures beyond the picture. This is the space in between that has to be built.
B.M. is a principle of attention investigation. In performance attention does not happen as an obvious
meditation but as the instinct which choices the Tightnessfromthe variety of happenings which
guarantees an inner knowledge.
B.M. shows as exceptional example of art in life that the annulment of the difference of the location as
idea (ideafromthe person and his acting is the idea) means the expansion of the performances

meeting. During and after the performance this sketch will be rejected and will outline itself as an
event.
B.M. is performativ. The performance as a human action points at the effect through transmission, it is
analogical. The performance forms different established values. But having entered the history of
ritual's performance is in beyond reach.
B.M. is non-communicative in the sense of language, is situated prior to
language, is a kind of spiritual embarrassment.
B.M. shows as principle that everything is possible and reduces therefore the knowledge about what to
do to a minimum. The immaterial center of the performance is the common knowledge: that in the
in between-the-people and the objects lays the tone, the temperature, frequency, the near and the
far
B.M. is a project in relation with the project Anthropognostic Dishes,

B.M. gives respect to

a - Todays Place
b - The Prediction
c - Reindeer Werk
d - The Council
e - The Toolsgroup by the Council
f-Minus delta t
g - Aufmerksamkeitsschule
h - East - West - Study - Project
i - Projektkunst e,V,
j - House of the Guests

About the performances of
BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL
The performances are variationable, which happened under the term BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL at different places and in different cities in Europe and the United States the last 14
years. The invitated artists are from different countries from Europe, Asia and Mexico.
Some remarks: Animism, the cult of the soul, is in one hand a theoretical-religious conception of
the w o r l d , how to look at the different relations of the being, on the other hand he has pragmatic
aims that amount to naiv egoism.
The Principe of BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL is an open system of BEGEGNUNG. This meeting
of at least t w o or more peoples happens in an open system, w i t h o u t the building of a group,
w i t h o u t working out fixed pieces or fixed themes. The typical presence of person and his way of
action is the reason for the meeting. During the performance at your location will meet eight
precise types of peoples. The One is understanding his w a y of action as a ritual initiation.
Pictures, psychic pictures of action which are focused to an inner understanding. An Other is the
typical trickster, the contrapunctal criticism, the point upon them. As fool he will strengthen,
caricature, neglect or lead to ad absurd the action of the ritual initiation of the one. Another will
slow d o w n and condense the time until it is reached a crystalline attention. Finally everybody is
asked put all his personality into the performance situation, w h a t will make it incalculable.
The immaterial centre of this performance, of this "Begegnung" is The between the human
beings and The between the things the temperature, the frequency, the vicinity and distance and
all the inspeakable things of the heart.
The idea of this meetings is a kind of Utopia. This utopia-vision is not useful for any career, for
biography-notices or other steps inside the art market.
As an action in dialogue without given theme the performance is not predictable, except a limited
time, which is fix now between 60 minutes and 6, 12 hours. It could be although 2 4 hours.
The real form of all things consists exactly of his "popular" tactics, w h i c h changes the things for
their o w n purpose, w i t h o u t having the illusions, that within a short time something will change.
While this form normally is exploited by the dominant power is just denied from the ideological
discourse, here the art is playing w i t h it. Into the institutions, which one have to serve t o , a style
of social ways of exchange, a style of technical invitations and a style of moral resistance is
penetrating, that means, an economy of the GABE (mutual enlarge, an aesthetic of " t o y s " or
" c o u p s " - artistic operations -and an ethic of "constancy" - thousand ways to deny the lawfulness
and reasons or fate to the established order). THE ART OF ACTION Michel Certeau
The focus on this principle is the meeting of persons in the same space and the same time
w i t h o u t any agreement in the sence of any production, a piece of art or something else. The
best Black Market-meetings w e had, happened when nobody ( the artists or the audience)
knew w h a t would happen but as clima there was an extremly powerful exchange between all
of them - a mental and physical consciousness of being.
So no performance will be repetition. The only things w h a t may be similar to the BLACK MARKET
International performance and the pieces looks like the Brakteatenstuck (documenta 8) and
Empedokles (frame program documenta 9) where w e invited 15 guests (musicians and fine artists),
is a repertoire of helping objects and a repertoire of a permanent dispute w i t h "picture of action"
That's reason enough.
The renunciation of truth will make the gesture be the guarantor of the declaration.
Boris Nieslony September 1 9 8 9 / 2 0 0 0