expo zéro

expo zéro is an exhibition project without any objects: no photographs, no sculptures, no paintings, no installations or videos. Instead ten performers, artists and thinkers discuss, enact and perform their ideas of what a museum of dance could be.

Ideas are shared and tested with the audience, through words and actions in Tate Modern’s empty galleries.

Through analysis, descriptions, gestures and movements which each ‘guide-artist’ develop with the audience, a new map of this expanding territory is drawn, live.

With Claire Bishop, Heman Chong, Tim Etchells, Martin Hargreaves, Mette Ingvartsen, Janez Janša, Sung Hwan Kim, Pichet Klunchun, David Riff, Shelley Senter.

Production Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne directed by Boris Charmatz, is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication – the Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles, the city of Rennes, the regional Council of Brittany and the General Council of lle-et-Vilaine.

Former editions of expo zéro took place at Musée de la danse / Le Garage, Rennes (2009), LiFE, Saint Nazaire (2009), Flying Circus Project, Singapore (2009), BAK basis voor actuele kunst/springdance, Utrecht (2010), Performa, New York (2011), Kunstsaele Berlin/Foreign Affairs, Berlin (2014).