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HELGE MEYER
Born in Woltwiesche, Germany, in 1969.

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S H O R T - B I O
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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).


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C U R R I C U L U M - V I T A E
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EDUCATION:
* school education: examination at german secondary school 1990


CIVIL SERVICE:
* October 1990 - January 1992


UNIVERSITY STUDIES:
* October 1992 - October 1993 / Teacher for primary school University of Hildesheim
* October 1993 - October 1994 / Fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Academy of Fine arts), Braunschweig
* October 1994 - October 1999 / Kulturwissenschaften + Ästhetische Kommunikation (Cultural studies) University of Hildesheim / End of studies: Diploma 1999 / Grade: 1,0
* Doctoral Dissertation 2007: Art science and art history, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart (Academy of Fine Arts) / Grade: Magna cum laude


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
*1992 / Assistant of director at the Wallgrabentheater, Freiburg
*1995 / Community work with young people in the „Badehaus“, Ilsede/Ölsburg
*1997 / Free journalist at the newspaper Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung
*1998 / Guest work at the Performance Art archive „Die Schwarze Lade (The Black Kit)" from Boris Nieslony, Köln


OTHER ACTIVITIES:
* 1988 - 1993 / Theatre in school and at free theatres
* since 1993 / Works as performer and multi-media artist
* 1996 - 1997 / Director of a free performance art group for young people
* since 1996 / Organiser and curator of exhibitions (photography/performance)
* since 1998 / Research and theoretical work on performance (f.e. edition of material for the issue Aktionskunst“ (action art) of the magazine „Kunst + Unterricht“ (art and teaching)
* since 1998 / Performances, lectures and workshops as System HM2T (zusammen mit Marco Teubner) - detailed information: Curriculum Vitae of Performance - Art - group System HM2T
* since 2000 / Start of the collaboration with Performance Art group Black Market International (Expo Hanover, german pavillon; Hildesheim at the transeuropa 2000 theatrefestival)
* since 2000 / Education for teachers in Performance Art
* since 2002 / Work on the Phd-thesis in Kunstwissenschaft (art science) „Handeln und Leiden - Schmerz als Bild in der Performance Art“ (acting and suffering - pain as an image in performance art) at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart (Academy of Fine Arts)
* 2003 / Research grant from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Society) in Switzerland, Canada and Great Britain
* since 2004 / Writer for "Inter" - Art Magazine in Quebec City, Canada and other international magazines
* since 2006 / Workshop project “Body, Image and the other” with Alexander Del Re and Jamie McMurry
* 2007 / PHD in Art Science (Art History) at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (magna cum laude)
* since Aug. 2007 / Teaching art and theatre at the High School of Groß Ilsede, Germany
* since Oct. 2007 / Lecturer at the University of Hildesheim, Germany
* since 2008 / International Advisory Board of the MA Program in Live Art and Performance Studies, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland

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GRANTS:

2012
* Stiftung Niedersachsen (for Blow!8)
* SBK (for Blow!8)
* Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
* Goethe Institut Belfast

2008
* Goethe Institute Bangkok
* Goethe Institute Glasgow

2006
* Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
* Vertretung der Regierung von Quebec

2005
* Auswärtiges Amt/Generalkonsulat Hermannstadt
* Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur Niedersachsen
* Goethe Institute Glasgow

2004
* Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

2003
* DAAD (German Academic Exchange Agency) Research Grant Helge Meyer
* Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

2002
* Goethe Institute Manila

2001
* Bayerische Staatskanzlei (Ministry of Bavaria)
* Außenministerium (Ministry for Foreign Affairs Germany)
* Goethe Institute St. Petersburg
* Ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)

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CURATING:

2002
* Erster Ilseder Performanceabend, (with 3 Performance Art Duos: Traumduo in der Auszeit, System HM2T, coblenz), 21.06.-28.06.2002, Gebläsehalle, Ilsede, Germany

2005
* Black Market International, Gebläsehallle, Ilsede, Germany

2006 - 2007
* Blow! – Actual Positions in Performance Art with Boris Nieslony, Myriam Laplante, Anja Ibsch 18.11.2006, 13.01.2007, 27.01.2007, Umformerstation, Ilsede, Germany

2007
* Blow! 2 - Actual Positions in Performance Art with Jason Lim, 19.06. - 23.06.2007, University of Hildesheim and Umformerstation, Ilsede, Germany
* Blow! 3 - Actual Positions in Performance Art with Julie Andree T., 7.11. - 09.11.2007, University of Hildesheim, Gymnasium Groß Ilsede and Umformerstation, Ilsede, Germany

2008
* Blow! 4 - Actual Positions in Performance Art with Monika Günther and Ruedi Schill, 25.06. - 28.06.2008, University of Hildesheim, Gymnasium Groß Ilsede and Umformerstation, Ilsede, Germany
* Blow! 5- Performance Art Meeting between Singapore and Germany with Jason Lim, Angie Seah, Kai Lam, Lee Wen, Patrycja German and Herma Auguste Wittstock, 10.07.- 13.07.2008, University of Hildesheim, Historical Marketplace Rinteln and Umformerstation, Ilsede, Germany
* Blow! 6 – Actual Positions in Performance Art from Quebec, Canada with Christian Messier and Francis O´Shaughnessy, 16.12. - 19.12.2008, University of Hildesheim, Gymnasium Groß Ilsede and Umformerstation, Ilsede, Germany

2009
* Art of Encountering 3 – Actual positions from Indonesia and Germany, 23.08 – 29.08.2009, Hildesheim, Gebläsehalle Groß Ilsede, Germany
* Blow!7- Actual positions of Performance Art from Latinamerica (14 artists from 8 latinamerican countries), 19.05. - 23.05.2009, Gymnasium Groß Ilsede, Gebläsehalle Ilsede, Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany

2010
* “grenzart”, 21.05.2010-25.05.2010, guest curator of the first Performance Art Festival in Kirschau, Germany
* Black Market International - 25th Anniversary, 27.11.2010, Umformerstation Ilsede, Germany

2012
* “Blow!8 – International female positions of Performance Art”, 26.06.-01.07.2012, Ilsede, Hildesheim, Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany

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PUBLICATIONS:

* “Les animaux dans la performance”, in: Inter ART ACTUEL, Quebec, numero 113, hiver 2013, p.: 6-12
* “Prendre le risqué de rencontrer des gens”, in: Inter ART ACTUEL, Quebec, numero 111, Summaire 2012, p.:17-20
* “Black Market International: Structure and Anti-Structure”, in: Inter ART ACTUEL, Quebec, numéro 99, Printemps 2008, p.: 26-27
* January 2008: “Schmerz als Bild – Leiden und Selbstverletzung in der Performance Art”, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2008
* „Teaching as learning“, in: “PerfoPuerto 2002-2007. Arte de Performance en Chile”, edited by Alexander Del Re and Alejandra Herrera, Ediciones PerfoPuerto 2007, Chile, p.: 131-140 (Spanish) and 198-204 (English)
* Essay in: Valentin Torrens: “Pedagogia de la Performance. Programmas de cursos Y Talleres”, Beca Ramon Acin 2007, Diputacion Provincial de Huesca, Spain 2007
* “Claudia Bucher: Vom Rieseln und Rinnen”, Katalogbeitrag, Verlag Martin Wallmann, Alpnach, 2007
* “Performance Saga Interview 03, Monika Günther”, Essay about Monika Günther, Editors: Andrea Saemann, Katrin Grögel, edition fink, Zürich, 2007
* „Vierte internationale Performance-Begegnung in Yucatan, Mexico“, Oktober 2005 (online-publication)
* „La douleur et l´art de la performance“, in: Inter ART ACTUEL, Quebec, numéro 91, September 2005, p.47-49
* „Performance Art. Untersuchung eines Zustands“, in: Wann ist die Kunst? Prozess, Moment, Gültigkeit, Thomas Kaestle (Hrsg.), Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld Mai 2005, p.78-81
* „Der Bildbegriff in der Performance Art“, kunststoff - Zeitschrift für Kunst und Wissenschaft, März 2005 (online-publication)
* Rezension: “Francesca Alfano Miglietti: Extreme Bodies. The Use and Abuse of the Body in Art”, Dezember 2004 (online-publication)
* "Rezension des 4. Performancefestivals in Odense", November 2004 (online-publication)
* "La douleur et l’art de la performance", Bloc Notes, Art Actuel/Actualite Rhone-Alpes, July 2004
* "Material oder Partner - Das Tier in der Performance Art", in: kunsttexte.de - Fachzeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte im Netz, May 2004 (online-publication)
* "Transformation of duration and time", INTER ART ACTUEL [magazine], Quebec, numéro 86, March 2004, Canada, p.20-21
* "Pain as an image in Performance Art", in: Catalogue of 4. International Performancefestival in Odense, Denmark August 2003, p.4-7
* "Duo-Performance. A Documentation of the First Ilseder Performance Evening" edited of ideen.werk (Helge Meyer and Marco Teubner); September 2002
* "Performance and Desorientation" in "Time Space Movement", Catalogue of festival, Akademia Non Grata, Estonia 2001
* "The Aozora Art Project - Hospitality and Knowledge" in: Materials to Aozora Art Project, Koshoku City, Japan 2001
* "Performance Art und Körperbild - Eine Studie zur Avantgarde-Kunst der Gegenwart" Diplomarbeit (Diploma Thesis), University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1999
* "Der Körper als Werkzeug"(Body as tool) in: "Aktionskunst" (Action Art) (Themenheft), Kunst und Unterricht Nr.225, September 1998, Friedrich Verlag, Velber 1998
* Postcard edition (8 Postcards) of Performances of System HM2T

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LECTURES & WORKSHOPS:

2015
* Group exhibition “Lebensläufe-Lebensgeschichten”, 6.09.2015-6.10.2015, Stammelbachspeicher Hildesheim, Germany.
* Workshop “Student Performance Art Workshop at Pollen Studios”, 9.-12.03, 2015, Belfast Performance Art Festival, Northern Ireland.

2014
* Workshop “Time Space Movement Risk”, 21.04.-27.04.2014, Gamle Bergen Kretsfengsel, Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen Norway.
* Workshop during “Machen.Verstehen.Vermitteln.- Performance in der Schule. 5. Kunstsymposium“, 28.03-30.03.2014, Meißen, Germany.

2013
* workshop and lectures at the Theatre Academy Helsinki, 29.09.-6.10.2013, Helsinki, Finland.
* group exhibition: ”Dieter”, 17.2.2013-21.04.2013, Kreismuseum Peine, Germany
* lecture: “System HM2T, Black Market International and my solo work”, 25.01.2013, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
* workshop: “The pain, the pleasure and the coexistence”, 24.01.2013- 27.01.2013, School of the museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
* lecture: “The risk of meeting people”, 24.01.2013, School of the museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2012
* workshop: “The pain, the pleasure and the coexistence”, 19.08.-25.08.2012, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland
* workshop: “"From an image to an action - Putting permanence to an extreme moment”, 30.04.-4.05.2012, Art of Encounter, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* lecture: “The risk of meeting people”, 4.05.2012, Ulster Academy, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* lecture: “The risk of meeting people”, 17.05.2012, 11th Biennal in Havanna, Cuba
* exhibition (with Nilz Böhme): SEHNSUCHT UND SCHMERZ , 14.04.2012-15.05.2012, giftgötze Galerie, Woltwiesche, Germany

2011
* Moderator for panel “Artist talk”, 11.09.2011, 10th International Performance Art Giswil, Hotel Krone, Giswil, Switzerland

2010
* Workshop, “pushing permanence to the extreme”, 12.11.2010, Nuns Island, Tulca Festival, Galway, Ireland
* Visiting teacher, 09.05.2010-15.05.2010, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland
* Colloquium and lecture: "The body, the presence and the self – strategies to teach Performance Art", Colloquium, 29.04.2010, La Bellone, Brussels

2009
* lecture: “Pain and Performance Art”, 07.06.2009, Gallery Q-02, Momentum Festival, Brussels, Belgium
* lecture: “Do we need another Performance Art festival? - Curating Performance Art”, Colloquium "Defining Performativity: Four Perspectives", 3.04.2009, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (with Amelia Jones, AA Bronson, Tony Schwensen, Matthew Nash)
* lecture: “Pain and Performance Art”, 1.04.2009, SMFA, Boston, USA
* Visting artist, 30.03-4.04.2009, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
* workshop: “From an image to an action”, 28-29.03.2009, articule, Montreal, Canada
* lecture ”Teaching how to become a piece of Art – Performance and education”, 14.03.2009, Fine Arts Education Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
* lecture: “Schmerz als Bild – Handeln und Leiden in der Performance Art”, 23.02.2009, Wettbüro, Hildesheim, Germany
* lecture: “Pain and Performance Art”, 12.02.2009, National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow Scotland
* Lecture “Handeln und Leiden-Schmerz als Bild in der Performance Art”, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

2008
* lecture: “Pain and Performance Art”,23.11.2008, Asiatopia, Bangkok, Thailand
* lecture: “Pain and Performance Art”, 23.10.2008, Exist08, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane Australia
* workshop: “Body, Image and the Other”, 12.05.2008- 14.05.2008, (together with Alexander Del Re) Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland

2007
* workshop and guest lecturer: Sommeruniversität Rinteln, Juli 2007, Rinteln, Germany
* workshop with Black Market International during the National Review of Live Art, Residency of 5 days, 7.02.07 – 11.02.07, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Schottland

2006
* lecture: „Schmerz als Bild in der Performance Art“, 12.12.2006, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* workshop: “Body, Image and the Other”, 27.11. - 02.12.2006, (together with Alexander Del Re and Jamie McMurry), Universidad Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, Chile
* lecture: „Images of pain and dying – Performance Art and death”, 27.10.2006, Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory”, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA
* lecture and discussion: „Schmerz als Bild in der Performance Art“, 11.09.2006, Performer Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany(together with Florian Feigl and Noah Holtwiesche)
* workshop with Jamie McMurry (USA), 7./8.04.2006, Satu Kali - First International Performance Art Symposion, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* workshop: “body, image and the other“, 25./26.03.2006, with Jamie McMurry (USA) and Alexander Del Re (Chile), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany

2005
* workshop: „Dem extremen Moment Dauer verleihen“, 10./11.06.2005, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
* lecture, „Die Kunst des Handelns - Ein Zustandsbericht über die Performance Art und ihre historischen Wurzeln“, 09.06.2005, Helge Meyer, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany
* lecture, „Pain and Performance Art“, 23.04.2005, Helge Meyer, Congress “Representation of pain”, University College Cork, Irland
* lecture, „System HM2T and Black Market International“, 06.04.2005, Helge Meyer, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston, USA
* lecture, „Collaboration in Performance“, 05.04.2005, Helge Meyer, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston, USA
* lecture, „Pain and Performance Art“, 02.04.2005, Helge Meyer, Performance Studies International Conference “Becoming Uncomfortable”, Brown University, Providence, USA

2004
* lecture, "pain and performance art", 25.11.2004, Helge Meyer, Congress "Kunstgeschichtliche Interpretation und bildwissenschaftliche Systematik" University of Magdeburg, Germany
* lecture and workshop, 7-10.08.2004, Helge Meyer, Summer University Rinteln, Germany
* lecture, "the image of pain in performance art", 30.03.04, Helge Meyer, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* lecture, "Duo-work", 22.01.04, System HM2T, Casadelcultura, Chocopo4, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

2003
* lecture, " Duo-work" 27.11.2003 System HM2T, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Luzern im Rahmen der Internationalen Performance Tage Willisau, Switzerland
* lecture," Duo-work" 24.09.2003 System HM2T (Marco Teubner solo), "Probing into the distance", CAFKA 03, Kitchener, Canada
* lecture "Pain and performance art", 12.09.2003 (Solo Helge Meyer), 4th International Performance Art Festival Odense, Denmark

2002
* workshop „From an image to an action“, 5.09.2002 (Solo Helge Meyer) in Rencontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 in Quebec City, Canada
* workshop for adults and students, 23.06.2002, Seminarrooms of the Komed, (Festival: Erster Ilseder Performanceabend), Ilsede, Germany
* lecture" The history of performance art - what is going on now?", 21.06.2002, Seminarrooms of the Komed, (Festival: Erster Ilseder Performanceabend), Ilsede, Germany
* lecture, 22.02.2002, College of Fine Arts, University of the East, Caloocan City, Philippines

2001
* Performance Workshop, 15.-16.10.2001, Kulturpalast, St. Petersburg, Russia
* lecture with slide-show about the history of performance art, 13.10.2001, museum of arctic and antarctic, St. Petersburg, Russia
* Performance Workshop, 22.7.2001, Kirakuboo, Koshoku City, Japan
* Artist Talk, 21.7.2001, at the japanese-german society in Nagano, Japan
* Performance Workshop for students, 20.7.2001, Kirakuboo, Koshoku City, Japan
* lecture with slide-show about the history of performance art, 19.7.2001, Koshoku Culture Hall, Koshoku City, Japan

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PERFORMANCES WITH
SYSTEM HM2T (Helge Meyer / Marco Teubner), BLACK MARKET INTERNATIONAL and SOLO:

2015
* “Black Market International meeting”, 6.12.2015, Black Market International, BONE 18, Aula progr. Berne,Switzerland.
* “Prost3”, 4.12.2015, System HM2T, BONE 18, Schlachthaustheater Berne, Switzerland.
* “Black Market International meeting”, 2.12.2015, Black Market International, BONE 18, Schlachthaustheater Berne, Switzerland.
* “Homestories 3”, 15.11.2015, Helge Meyer solo, Kulstof 15, Aalborg, Denmark.
* “Black Market International meeting”, 14.11.2015, Black Market International, Kulstof 15, Aalborg, Denmark.
* “Homestories 2”, 10.10.2015, Helge Meyer solo, Blauverschiebung 7, Leipzig, Germany.
* “Homestories 1”, 18.09.2015, Helge Meyer solo, TONIGHT! Festival, Helsinki, Finland.
* “Memorabilia”, Helge Meyer and Marie Pape, 06.09.2015 for the exhibition “Lebensläufe-Lebensgeschichten” in the "Galerie im Stammelbach-Speicher", Hildesheim, Germany.
* “Roadkill”, System HM2T, 3.07.2015, BRISE 3-Festival, Flensburg, Germany.
* “Resonance Remembrance“, Helge Meyer solo, 12.03.2015, BIFPA 2015, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
* “Fade away 2”, 9.01.2015, Helge Meyer solo, Body Slang, Sopot, Poland.

2014
* “Disintegration of time“, System HM2T, 26.04.2014, Gamle Bergen Kretsfengsel, Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen Norway.
* “Watertalk”, System HM2T, 26.04.2014, Gamle Bergen Kretsfengsel, Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen Norway.

2013
* “Fade Away – a small message to N.K.“ 25.01.2013, solo, Mobius, Boston, USA

2012
* “Prost2”, System HM2T, 31.10.2012, The Green Room, Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's, Belfast Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* “Black Market International”, 5.05.2012, Queens University, Art of Encounter, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* “Prost”, System HM2T, 4.05.2012, Queens University, Art of Encounter, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* “Hand to hand in Belfast”, solo, 3.05.2012, Queens University, Art of Encounter, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* “Fade away – an homage 2”, with Marie Pape, 14.04.2012, Exhibition “Sehnsucht und Schmerz”, galerie giftgötze, Woltwiesche, Germany
* “Fade away – an homage”, solo, 24.02.2012, Actus, Liege, Belgium
* “Encounter”, group performance with Beatrice Didier, Boris Nieslony, An Debie, Eglantine Chaumont, 25.02.2012, Actus, Liege, Belgium

2011
* “Pneumatic Vision: cut 2”, 10.11.2011, solo, 10th International Performance Art Giswil, Turbine Giswil, Switzerland
* “Black Market International”, 21.02.2011 – 26.02.2011, residency at “New Territories 2011” (Winter School, Lectures, Screenings and Group Performance, curating of a guest artist program), Glasgow, Scotland

2010
* “Black Market International meeting”, 27.11.2010, Umformerstation Ilsede, Germany
* “Bodytime-Timebody”, 13.11.2010, solo, Tulca Festival, Galway, Ireland “Pneumatic vision:cut”, 21.10.2010, solo, 7a11d Festival, Toronto, Canada
* Memory shattered", 15.10.2010, solo, Alumni - Grandes Maestros y Discipulos", U. de Concepcion, Alianza Francesa , Balmaceda Arte Joven, Concepcion, Chile
* “The german peepshow”, 23.09.2010, installation and performance with System HM2T, group show “Hans and Helga, cda projects, Istanbul, Turkey
* „Black Market International“, 11.04.2010, Future of Imagination 6, Singapur
* Cleaning up Singapore”, System HM2T, 10.04.2010, Future of Imagination 6, Singapur
* „Black Market International“, 2.04.2010, Undisclosed Territory Nr. 4, Solo City, Indonesien

2009
* “Hand to Hand in Fiac”, 16.10.2009, solo, Cafe Fiac, Toulouse, Frankreich
* “Physical Triptych”, 6.06.2009, Trio with Jamie McMurry (USA) and Julie Andree T. Canada), Momentum Festival, Brussels, Belgium
* „Collaboration“, 30.05.2009, Members of Black Market International plus guests, Live Action Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
* „Cleaning up“, 29.05.2009, System HM2T with Marie Pape, Live Action Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
* “Here and now”, 4.04.2009, solo, Mobius, Boston, USA
* “Taschlich”, 14.02.2009, solo, NRLA, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland

2008
* “Collaboration”, 22.11.2008, (with Norbert Klassen, Jaques van Poppel, Roi Vaara, Jason Lim, Myriam Laplante, Alastair McLennan, Lee Wen) Asiatopia, Bangkok, Thailand
* „Focus: Bodytime-Timebody2”, 7.11.2008, solo, AccionMAD08, Madrid, Spain
* „Focus: Bodytime-Timebody”, 22.10.2008, solo, Exist08, Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane, Australia
* “Wann…When?“, 24.09.08, solo, LOT Theatre, Braunschweig, Germany
* “Ich verspreche...”, 6.09.08, System HM2T, International Performance Art in Giswil, Schweiz
* “Collaboration”, 13.07.08, (together with Anja Ibsch (Germany), Lee Wen (Singapore), Jason Lim (Singapore) and Kai Lam (Singapore), Historical Marketplace, Rinteln, Germany (during Blow!5)
* “Video”, 6.06.-07.06.2008, solo and Black Market International video screening during LAF08, Liva Art Falmouth, University of Falmouth, Great Britain
* “Senses and sorrow 2”, 11.05.08, solo, The Là-bas: Dynamical festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
* “Senses and sorrow”, 26.04.08, solo, ARKA Sardinia - InterActions XXI Festival, Assemini, Italy

2007
* “Collaboration”, 15.09.07 (together with Jürgen Fritz, Alastair MacLennan, Jacques Van Poppel, Elvira Santamaria, Norbert Klassen, Myriam Laplante), Infraction 07, Sete, France
* “Hand to Hand in Sete”, 14.09.07, Helge Meyer solo, Infraction 07, Sete, France
* “Dignity”, 29.07.07, Helge Meyer solo, Art of Encountering, Hildesheim, Germany
* “Sounds of the body 2”, 21.07.07, Helge Meyer and Andreas Hoppe, Sommeruniversität Rinteln, Germany
* “Taschlich in Monza”, 26.05.07, HARTA PERFORMING MONZA, Helge Meyer solo, 5th International Performance Art Festival, Monza, Italien
* „Black Market International“, Residency of 5 days, 7.02.07 – 11.02.07, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Schottland

2006
* “You can run, but you can´t hide”, 25.11.2006, Helge Meyer solo, International Workshop of Performance Art “Body, Image and the Other”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Chile
* “Burst”, 10.11.2006, Helge Meyer solo, (Re) fusing self, Initiation International 2, Singapur
* “Trading Sorrow”, 16.09.2006, Helge Meyer solo, Live Action Gothenburg, Sweden
* „Meeting“, 15.09.2006,with Alastair MacLennan, Live Action Gothenburg, Sweden
* “Focus: Senses 1”, 16.06.2006, System HM2T, “Momentum”, Brussels, Belgium
* „Gewichtung 2“, 10.06.2006, Helge Meyer solo, Kulturtag Gepardshagen, Germany
* “Black Market International meeting”, 23.04.2006, Black Market International, Trouble #2, Brussels, Belgium
* “Taschlich 2”, 11.04.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), Future of Imagination 3, Singapore
* „Meeting“, 07.04.2006, with Boris Nieslony, Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
* “Dissection”, 24.03.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany
* “Hand to Hand in Valencia”, 25.02.2006, (Helge Meyer solo), 4th International Performance Encounter at the IVAM, Valencia, Spain
* “Slits 2: Pain is in the eye of the beholder”, 25.02.2006 (DVD System HM2T with an additional Installation of Victoria Singh), Western Front Performance Art, Vancouver, Canada

2005
* “Black Market International meeting“, 12.12.2005, L´Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
* “Black Market International meeting ”, 10.12.2005, Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
* „Hände“, 07.12.2005, System HM2T, Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
* “Black Market International meeting”, 06.12.2005, Bone 8, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
* „Hand to Hand in Sf. Gheorghe“, 01.10.2005, Helge Meyer solo, Eruptio3, Sf. Gheorghe, Romania
* “Gewichtung”, 10.09.2005, System HM2T, Paradiesgärten, Vogelfrei 6, Darmstadt, Germany
* “Taschlich”, 04.09.2005, Helge Meyer solo, 4to Encuentro Internacional Performance in Yucatan, Chelem, Mexico
* „Hand to hand in Merida“, 02.09.2005, Helge Meyer solo, 4to Encuentro Internacional Performance in Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
* “Gewichtung – Handlung 1”, 19.07.05, Helge Meyer and Marie Pape, Sommeruniversität Rinteln, Rinteln, Germany
* “Black Market International meeting”,16.07.05, Black Market, 13.Performance Art Konferenz, Tesla, Berlin, Germany
* “Black Market International meeting”, 15.07.05, Black Market, 13.Performance Art Konferenz, Tesla, Berlin, Germany
* “Black Market International meeting”, 12.07.05, Black Market (Organisation Ideenstiftungsverein/Helge Meyer), Gebläsehalle Ilsede, Germany
* “Hand to Hand in Providence”, 01.04.2005, Helge Meyer solo, Performance Studies International Conference “Becoming Uncomfortable”, Brown University, Providence, USA
* “Black Market International meeting”, 13.02.2005, Black Market, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland

2004
* "21 grammes part 5", 4.12.2004, Performance System HM2T, Bone 7, Bern, Switzerland
* "21 grammes part 4", 26.11.2004, Performance System HM2T, eBent04, Barcelona, Spain
* "21 grammes part 3", 30.10.2004, Performance System HM2T, Traktor-Deutsche Performance, Dresden, Germany
* "21 grammes-part 2", 18.09.2004, Performance System HM2T, Rencontre Internationale d ´art performance de Quebec, Galerie Rouje, Quebec City, Canada
* "21 grammes-part 1", 16.09.2004, Performance System HM2T, Rencontre Internationale d ´art performance de Quebec, Galerie Sequence, Chicoutimi, Canada
* "Musikkörper-Körpermusik", 07.08.2004, Performance System HM2T and Dr. Andreas Hoppe, Rinteln, Germany
* "Le grand coup", 29.07. and 30.07.04, (Collective work), Deranger espace 4, Magdalen Islands, Canada
"21 gram for heaven", 15.07.04, (Marco Teubner solo), 3 Encuentro Internacionale de Performance Yucatan, Dzindzantun, Mexico
* "Rent an Artist", Boris Nieslony and Helge Meyer, organised by Jekaterina Anzupowa, 26.07.04, School of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany
* "Russian Bread" , Helge Meyer solo, 24.04.04, "Sperrgebiet" Wünsdorf Waldstadt, Germany
* "Hommage - Hand to hand in Boston (a cultural exchange of cloth and more)", 03.04.04, Performance System HM2T (Helge Meyer solo), "Corporeal Heat", Boston, USA
* "No es la vida dulce?- Ist das Leben nicht süss?", 21.01.04, Performance System HM2T, "Chocopop4, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

2003
* "Arbeit mit vermindertem Wasserdampf", 29.11.2003, Performance System HM2T, "International Performance Art Days 6" Willisau, Switzerland
* "Kleine Gesten und andere Handlungen", 4.10.2003, Performance System HM2T, "Do you understand-Festival", Mannheim, Germany
* "The German Peepshow", 20.-25.09.2003, Performance System HM2T (Marco Teubner solo), "Probing into the distance", CAFKA 03, Kitchener, Canada
* "Gone", 29.08.2003, Performance Helge Meyer with Geneviève Lamontagne, Ilot Fleurie,
Quebec City, Canada
* "Left", 28.08.2003, Performance Helge Meyer, Gallery Clark, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
* "Laid", 21.08.2003, Performance Helge Meyer, Gallery Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
* "Eg(g)o" 18.05.2003, Performance System HM2T, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
* "The long journey of rice", 16./17.05.2003 (21 hours), Performance System HM2T, Galerie Magnet at LAKARAN 2003" - 3rd Philippine International Performance Art Festival (PIPAF), Manila, Philippines

2002
* „The return“, 8.11.2002, Performance Helge Meyer and Stefanie Pape, Galerie Die Arche in Hameln, Germany
* „Balance“, 12.10.2002, Performance System HM2T, 13th Multimedia Art Festival Transart Communications in Nove Zamky, Slovakia
* „Short Message“, 27.09.2002, Performance System HM2T, Galerie Buryzone, in Bratislava, Slovakia
* „Peepshow 3“, 26.09.2002, Performance System HM2T, A.K.T. 3 -Between Reality and Fiction, in Brno, Czech Republic
* „Black Market International meeting“, 12.09.2002, Black Market International Performance, Galerie Clark, Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Quebec 2002 in Montreal, Canada
* „Black Market International meeting“, 7.09.2002, Black Market International Performance, Ilot fleurie, Rencontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 in Quebec City, Canada
* „Hand to hand in Canada“, 6.09.2002, Performance Helge Meyer (solo), Rencontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 in Quebec City, Canada
* "Un concerto per il gas", 28.06.2002, Performance System HM2T, Erster Ilseder Performance Abend, Gebläsehalle in Ilsede, Germany
* "Exit/NoExit", 22.04.2002, Performance System HM2T, Meeting about performance, Cultural Centre of Schleswig Holstein, Salzau, Germany
* "Peepshow 2", 12.04.2002, Performance System HM2T, Stillstand performance evenings, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln, Germany
* “Hand to hand 2”, 24.02.2002 , performance System HM2T, “Saluhan Pipaf 2002”, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo City, Philippines
* “Hand to hand1”, 23.02.2002, performance System HM2T, , “Saluhan Pipaf 2002”, Donada Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines
* “Asian women are free!” 21.02.2002, performance System HM2T and Kaori Haba (Japan), Australian Centre, Manila, Philippines
* “Peepshow”, 10.01.2002, performance System HM2T, Cuba-Kulturzentrum, Münster Germany

2001
* “Black Market International”, 17.11.2001, performance Black Market International, Aree Intermediali e Sinestetiche" Vetrina internazionale del CND, CENTRO NAZIONALE DI DRAMMATURGIA Teatro Totale, Rome, Italy
* “Newton”, 16.11.2001,performance System HM2T (with Myriam Laplante), Aree Intermediali e Sinestetiche" Vetrina internazionale del CND, CENTRO NAZIONALE DI DRAMMATURGIA Teatro Totale, Rome, Italy
* “Russian Variation No. 1”, 14.10.2001, performance System HM2T, EXTEMPORE - First Saint-Petersburg Festival of Improvisation, Performance and Contemporary Dance, Museum of Arctic and Antarctic, St. Petersburg, Russia
* “A Question of Faith”, 12.10.2001, performance System HM2T, EXTEMPORE, St. Petersburg, Russia
* “Selling the Yellow Man”, 16.8.2001, performance System HM2T & Lee Wen (Singapore); Second Open Art Festival, Chengdu, China
* “Into a Land of Milk and Honey“, 15.8.2001, performance System HM2T, Second Open Art Festival, Leshan, China
* “Clash“, 12.8.2001, performance System HM2T, Second Open Art Festival, Pengshan, China
* “Reactions on Artificial Wind”, 28.7.2001 performance System HM2T, Aozora Art Projekt, Koshoku City, Japan
* “Flags“, 14.7.2001, performance System HM2T, Aozora Art Project, Koshoku City, Japan
* "Earthbarrow", 22.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Arche gallery, Hameln, Germany
* "Point of view No.4", 18.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
* "Point of view No.3", 17.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Pedvale, Latvia
* "Into water", 17.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Riga, Latvia
* "Point of view No.2", 17.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Pärnu, Estonia
* "Point of view No.1", 16.6.2001, performance System HM2T, Time Space Movement 2001, International Performance Festival, Paide, Estonia
* "More valuable than gold No.2", 25.2.2001, performance System HM2T, EXIT Performancefestival, Calble Factory, Helsinki, Finland
* "Let the birds fly", 24.2.2001, performance System HM2T, EXIT Performancefestival, Calble Factory, Helsinki, Finland

2000
* Black Market International Meeting, 9.12.2000, Performancefestival Bone 3, Bern, Switzerland
* "Pneuma", 7.12.2000 performance System HM2T, Performancefestival Bone 3, Schlachthaus, Bern, Switzerland
* Black Market International Meeting, 6.12.2000, Performancefestival Bone 3, Bern, Switzerland
* "Encounter", 8.6.2000, a performance-meeting of Black Market International & System HM2T, marketplace, Hildesheim, Germany
* "Encounter", 5.6.2000, a performance-meeting of Black Market International & System HM2T, EXPO 2000, german pavillion, Hanover, Germany

1999
* "More valuable than gold No.1", 3.12.1999, performance System HM2T, Theaterhaus Hildesheim, Germany
* “Acting twelve times in front of the main entrance”, 11.6.1999, performance No.5 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* „Story-telling in the catacombs”, 10.6.1999, performance No.4 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* “Drinking water“, 9.6.1999, performance No.3 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* “Walking tied together on the entire area”, 8.6.1999, performance No.2 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* “Walking in the courtyard”, 7.6.1999, performance No.1 from the performance-series “perform”, University of Hildesheim, Germany

1998
* setting up of the performance-group System HM2T

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REVIEWS OF MY WORKS (extract):

* "Wo ist mein Traktor?", from Andrea Rook, Dresdener neueste Nachrichten, 1.11.2004, Dresden, Germany
* "Der abwesende Traktor", from Bernhard Theilmann, Sächsische Zeitung, 1.11.2004, Dresden, Germany
* "TransSylvAnn Art-Gustav Uto and Helge Meyer and Diaspora", Helen Matte and Richard Martel in: Inter Art Actuel, Numero 88, Autumn 2004, Le Lieu, Quebec City, Canada
* "Black Market", in: Recontre Internationale d´Art performance de Quebec 2002 (catalogue), Le Lieu, Quebec City, Canada
* "Corporeal Heat" (Review of a work in Boston, April 2004), Dirk Adams, Big Red and Shiny, Issue 05
* "Performance" von Sylvie Ferre, in: Bloc Notes 208, Art Actuel/Actualite Rhone-Alpes, Fevrier 2003
* "A propos de Black Market" from Karen Spencer, in: Esse - Arts and Opinions, Montreal, Edition: printemps 2003
* "Actinart 2002" (CD-Rom Catalogue), Transart Communication 2002, Nove Zamky-Budapest, Slovakia - Hungary, 2003
* "Counting rice" von Pedro Dumancas and Moro Ocampo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2.06.2003, Cultural Section, Manila, Philippines
* "Teatro Totale - Una proposta una patrica" from Alfio Petrini, Summer 2003, Rome, Italy
* "Planete performance" von Sylvie Cotton, in: Esse - Arts and Opinions, Montreal, edition: printemps 2002
* "Performance Duo System HM2T", in: kultur z.b., Hildesheim, edition 05. Juli 2002
* "IMAF 2002-4th International Multimedial Art Festival" (Catalogue), MAS Gallery & Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci, Yugoslavia, October 2002
* "Festival Exit", Esse - Arts and Opinions, Montreal, Ausgabe: hiver 2002
* "Nur das Plüsch Schwein kanns bezeugen", Westfälische Nachrichten, 12.01.2002
* "An die Grenzen und darüber hinaus", Braunschweiger Zeitung, 3.01.2002
* "Und so was will in die Europäische Union?", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 29.08.2001
* "Exit", Magyar Felöoktatas, Budapest, Ausgabe 5-6, 2001
* "Winzige Gesten der Annährung", Der Bund, Bern, 8.12.2000
* "Die dunkle Seite der Weltausstellung", Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung, 7.6.2000
* "Vom Gehen und Trinken und anderen Alltäglichkeiten", Hildesheimer Zeitung, 14.6.1999

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SELECTED LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED IN WEBSITES:

* www.newmoves.co.uk (Website of National Review of Live Art in Scotland)
* www.ebent.org (Website of Festival “eBent” in Spain
* www.hot.ee/timespace (Website of Festival "Time Space Movement" in Estonia)
* www.exitfestival.org (Website of Festival "Exit" in Finland )
* www.performance-art-research.de (Website about research and performance work of Helge Meyer)
* www.system-hm2t.de (Own Website with Texts, pictures, articles, etc.)
* www.ideenstiftung.org (website about the curating of Blow!)

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VIDEOS:

* „Liveartwork DVD – editions“: Black Market International, June 2007 (edited by Chroistopher Hewitt)
* “Black Market International – Eine Performancebegegnung von 12 Künstlern aus 9 Ländern”, Deutschland, November 2005
* "Recontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002-Solos", Video of Soloperformances, Quebec City 2003
* "Recontre internationale d`art performance de Quebec 2002 - Group", Video of Black Market International, Quebec City 2003
* "China Moon" from Lee Wen, Japan (Documentation of a Performance tour in China), Tokio 2002
* "Time Space Movement", Documentation of the Performance festival in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (several tapes), Tallinn 2001
* "Black Market", Documentation of two performances of Black Market International, Frankfurt 2000



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