In my practice I often
           take on the role of
           - some sort of -
           "Web Spider":
        checking pages
       for links and weaving
networks with them
(Website Wigs),
checking HTML and
cross-referencing
movements to it
 (html_butoh and the
    html-movement-library)
,

     and using
      code as choreography
       for performances
         (Website
          Impersonations).















 Photo*: Hommage to
 Otto Dix's  "Portrait of
  the Journalist
  Sylvia van Harden"

   as Website Mistress/
          Web Spider
  web +/- performance +/- installation  
 >2009   >2008   >2007  >2006  >2005  >2004  >...  
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featured performance/web work:
 
Website Impersonations: The Next Generation
SIGGRAPH Asia, Yokohama, Japan, December 17-19, 2009
 
 
Facebook User Labor Enactments
@ "The Internet as Playground and Factory"
The New School, NY, November 13, 2009
 
 
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #2 -
"www.google.com"

Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY, October 3, 2009
 
 
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #8 -
"www.facebook.com"

Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY, March 3, 2009
 
 
 
 
 
featured Internet/theater work:
 
tabootheater 2.0
Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich, Switzerland, May 19-24, 2008
 
 
 
 
featured installation work:
 
Website Wigs, Interrupted
New addtions to the series:

Website Wig: "www.dana-charkasi.com, interrupted"
(January 15 - May 6, 2008)
 
 
new events & reviews plus more...
 
 
CURRENTLY:
July 10, 2010
>>Shadow & Light<< @ Kulturmöllan in Lövestad, South Sweden.
This exhibition is curated by Marek Walczak, Lars Eklöw, Johanna Kindvall & Anna-Maria
Eklöw
and is featuring works on the theme of shadows and light.
I am showing a new web-driven installation called >>Partly Cloudy Structures<<
featuring a spider-like creature who takes on residency in the mill and online;
her movements and actions are influenced by the local real-time weather data...
The exhibition will run until July 31.
 
RECENTLY and ONGOING:
June 11, 2010
>>Made In Internet<< @ ArtBoom Festival in Krakow, Poland and online.
In this showcase, which is curated by Marcin Ramocki and featuring
24 international web-based artists, I am showing a piece called
>>3 min html-movements"<<, a video enactment of the Artboom Festival website's
source code - used as choreography for HTML inspired short dance and performance clips.
The festival opens June 11 and runs until June 28.
The web showcase will remain online.
 
 
 
RECENTLY:
>>Hair Tactics<< @ Jersey City Museum
On view was a new Website Wig built upon braiding the hyper-link structure
of www.jerseycitymuseum.org - the museum's website - into color-coded and
knotted hair.
The Exhibition ran from March 5 to June 11, 2010.
 
 
 
RECENTLY:
May 29, 2010
Participation in Annie Abraham's: >>Huis Clos : No Exit - On Translation<<
@ Netherland Media Art Institute in Amsterdam.
A telematic performance with 6 performers.
 
RECENTLY:
May 6, 2010
>>"Follow The Old Internet's Plan<<
Performance at Chashama Harlem Studios Gallery
461 West 126th Street, NYC

>>Watch a slide show of the performance on Flickr.
The Old Internet performed May 6th's stock quote percentage of the "backbone's"
- original and often bought out or merged - companies such as LVLT, ATT, or AOL...
The performance took place within the exhibition "Stitched Topographies"
by Christine Gedeon.
 
 
RECENT REVIEW:
Mirror, Mirror review >>A Portrait of a Portrait of a Portrait<<
by Michelle Levy, ARTslanT, April 18, 2010
 
RECENTLY:
>>Mirror, Mirror<< @ Postmasters Gallery,
a group exhibition of nine artists engaged with contemporary portraiture in all media.
I showed the video installation Facebook Re-enactments - video reenactments
of people on Facebook who share the same name...
The Exhibition was running from April 2 - May 8, 2010.
 
March 22, 2010
>>THEATER 2.0...<< A Video-Interview with 2010LAB.tv
I am talking about the crossover of Internet, Performance and Installation
in my work...IN GERMAN.
2010Lab.tv is part of "Ruhr.2010 - Kulturhauptstadt Europas".
 
December 17 - 19, 2009
>>Website Impersonations: The Next Generation<<
@ SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan.
Joined by one dancer - Yuka Takahashi - I invited the audience to take part
to perform and "deconstruct" HTML of three Websites: yahoo.co.jp,
fc2.com, and google.jp. The performances took place within
the Web-driven installation. Click here for the Art Gallery Preview Video.
 
 
 

November 13, 2009
>>Facebook User Labor Enactments<<
@ "The Internet as Playground and Factory"
a conference on digital labor at the New School.
For this performance I have been working with five performers and
also invited the audience to take part. This time I used an XML-based
language called ULML (=User Labor Mark-Up Language),
developed by Burak Arikan, as choreography.
 
 
 
November 2009
>>Space and Cyberspace: URSULA ENDLICHER'S Internet in the Round<<
Review by Mary Love Hodges, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2009

 
 
September 9 - October 31, 2009
>>Levels of Undo - Virtual Residency Project<<
@ Location One/New York.

I showed new works reflecting on: the peculiar
exchanges with my virtual residency mate(s), the long
and winding road of working online for one and
a half decades, and my deep and mysterious
experiences with facebook...
 
One of my new works on view:
Facebook Re-enactments

 
 
October 3, 2009
>>Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #2 - www.google.com.<<
@ Center for Performance Research

With google.com my ten-part cycle of "Website Impersonations:
The Ten Most Visited" is done.
This live performance series, which utilizes Web Code
as choreography, includes dancers, performers,
and the audience - right on stage.
 
 
 
September 29, 2009
Vera List Center for Arts and Politics
>>Changing Labor Value<<
PANEL DISCUSSION & ART INSTALLATION
@ The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New York City
Panel: 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Installation: 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.
My facebook performance from the Website Impersonations series is included
in the Web-based project installation of the event.
 
May 15 - August 15, 2009
>>Three-months Virtual Residency<<
Theme:Levels of Undo
@ Location One/www.location1.org
Follow the blog discussion here.
 
June 6, 2009
>>Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited #3
- www.live.com<<

studios on view, New York
 
March 17, 2009
>>Upgrade! Boston<<
7:00 pm @ Studio for Interrelated Media
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
 
March 13, 2009
>>Great Dance Blog:<<
Creating Dance from Wikipedia's HTML Tags
Review/Blog Post about Website Impersontation #6
by Doug Fox.
 
March 3, 2009
>>Theater of Code<<
Curated by Christiane Paul
I showed a new part of the Website Impersonations:
The Ten Most Visited
series. This time: #8 - facebook.com.
This event at Light Industry also included performances
and interventions by MTAA and Adrianne Wortzel.
 
 
 
December 11, 2008
>>Website Impersonations:
The Ten Most Visited #6 -
www.wikipedia.org <<

A new part of this live/Web performance
series @ LABfactory

In cooperation with AIKO.
 
 
 
September 15, 2008
>>VagueTerrain.org<<
"Dialogues-Translations-Performances"

In dialog with Ela Kagel
Part of Curediting by
VagueTerrain and CONTEXT.NET
 
August 1, 2008
>> Interface Cultures -
Artistic Aspects of Interaction<<

by CHRISTA SOMMERER, LAURENT
MINGONNEAU, and DOROTHEE KING (eds.)
"Mulitple Media Works" --
Essay about my Internet-based and
interactive works.
 
August 2008
>>ursula blickle video archiv at
kunsthalle wien<<

Inclusion of my Works into Archiv
 
May 29, 2008 - 8PM
>>LABfactory<<
"Code/Choreography"

Lecture and Sneak Peek into Rehearsal
for upcoming Website Impersonation
Performance with Aiko (photo) at LABfactory
in Vienna in December '08.
 
 
 
May 19-24, 2008
>>Theater am Neumarkt<<
"tabootheater 2.0"

A theater/Internet project by Ursula
Endlicher, Ela Kagel, and Anke Zimmermann.
Blog, Workshop with invited artists in theater
space and online, and performance @
Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich, Switzerland
 
May 22, 2008
>>Der Standard<<
"Haarige Verknüpfungen"
Review of Exhibit at Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna

 
May 7 - June 21, 2008
>>Gallery Dana Charkasi<<
"Website Portrait Performacnes + Website Wigs"

Solo Show, Two multiple-media installations.
(Image: Detail from Website Portrait Performances -
www.whitehouse.gov. Opening May 7, 6-8PM
 
 
 
May 1, 2008
>>Multiplace 2008 / network culture festival<<
"Choreography of the html code"

Presentation and Discussion. Viera Levitt, moderator,
(SK/US) in conversation with Ursula Endlicher (A/US) at
FreeDom, SK_Bahon (near Bratislava)
 
 
 

Photo credits for this page: Lee Day.

Photo collages/graphics on this page: Ursula Endlicher.

*Photo credit for "Hommage a Otto Dix's...":
Michael Krömer