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Black Market International (BMI) is a
performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
ist collective with international members, each with an established and independent practice as a solo performer. Since 1985 the group has presented durational collective performances worldwide. The movement was founded under the name ''Market project'' in 1985 in Poznan (Poland) with founders Boris Nieslony, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Tomas Ruller and Jürgen Fritz. In 1986 for the first European tour the name ''Black Market'' was taken. In 1990/91 the group appeared as ''Black Market International'', with personal changes . There have been a variety of different versions of what BMI is about, as the group always avoided the definition of an organised group. The title Black Market does not designate a group, but rather an idea of working. The aim is to promote - like in a
black market A black market is a Secrecy, clandestine Market (economics), market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality, or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the set of goods and services who ...
- open and free exchange of ideas, and to achieve an ''Art of Encounter'', or mixed englisch-german “Art of Begegnung”.
Michael LaChance, ''Performance Art Research'', “15 principles of Black Market International"


Members

Until 2014, the group had twelve regular members: * Jürgen Fritz,
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* Norbert Klassen,
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(died in 2011) * Miriam Laplante, Canada/Italy * Alastair MacLennan, UK * Helge Meyer, Germany * Boris Nieslony, Germany * Jacques Maria van Poppel,
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* Elvira Santamaria,
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* Marco Teubner, Germany * Julie Andree T.,
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* Roi Vaara,
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* Lee Wen,
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. Past Black Market International members were: * Zygmunt Piotrowski, Poland * Tomas Ruller, Czech Republic * Nigel Rolfe, Ireland * Zbigniew Warpechowski, Poland. Several international guest artists have been invited to collaborate in BMI performances throughout the years. ASA Art Service Association - Biography
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See also

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Performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
*
Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental performance art, art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finishe ...
*
Experimental theatre Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre), inspired largely by Richard Wagner, Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu Roi, Ubu plays as a rejection of bot ...
* Living theatre *
Intermedia Intermedia is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the strategies of interdisciplinarity that occur within artworks existing between artistic genres. It was also used by John Brockman to refer to ...
* Norbert Klassen * Alastair MacLennan * Lee Wen *
List of performance artists Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned ...


References

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External links


Official website of Black Market International


* ttp://www.performance-art-research.de/black_market_international.html Michael LaChance, ''Performance Art Research''. “15 principles of Black Market International"
About BMI on member Boris Nieslony’s official website




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