Opening: Thursday, December 12, at 17:00. The exhibition is open to the public on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
About this Event
Free admission. Booking (for single days) through Eventbrite is required.
Places are limited, and booking does not guarantee entry.
Timely arrival for the evening live programme is recommended.
The IX VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK, titled Portals and Constellations, addresses the theme of social connection through the lens of performativity. In times of crisis, individual behaviours are transformed by options and alternatives that seem drastically reduced, obstructing prospects for more inclusive futures. Portals are thresholds of critical utopianism, liminal places between the here and now and the not-yet-here. They are entry points to other worlds and new ways of being. Portals can be those of a castle, a cathedral, a palace, or virtual, symbolic gateways. They provide access to other loci and distant places that pertain to our reality and daily life. In this sense, through performance, artists imagine, create, and enable desirable alternative trajectories that indicate, albeit partially, what our societies and humanity need. We access portals by abandoning prejudices to expand awareness and perception, receiving inspiration, and treading new, stimulating paths. Finally, crossing a portal means trusting that change is possible.
And yet, taking action to improve living conditions requires the design of new philosophical constellations to make interrelationships more proactive and constructive between people, theories, problems, and ideas. As Walter Benjamin intuited, philosophy must become performative, maintaining that ideas are to phenomena as constellations are to stars. Ideas, after all, are nothing but noble phenomena that determine the nexus of their relationships through the work of those who support them through interaction with one another. Therefore, communication, cooperation, union, and people’s networks are used to respond to contemporary emergencies, combat existential loneliness, and deconstruct recurring patterns of suffering.
We trust in change.
VestAndPage, December 2024
About the Exhibition
STRATA
Originally a 75-minute performance-based film by VestAndPage, STRATA is presented in Venice as an immersive multi-channel video installation. In philosophical, poetic action, a collective of artists roots out the liminal, spectral, and ritual aspects of art in the subsoil of prehistoric Ice Age caves. Immersed in their profound history as sites of knowledge-making and art creation, artists and researchers investigate the connection between the human body, time, and the geological depth of critical subsurface milieus. www.stratafilm.de
A VestAndPage production with Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Giorgia de Santi, daz disley, Francesca Fini, Nicola Fornoni, Saúl Garcia López, Stephan Knies, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Boris Nieslony, Andrea Pagnes, Ralf Peters, Enok Ripley, Sara Simeoni, Marcel Sparmann, Verena Stenke, Susanne and Maite Weins, Douglas Quin.
Presented by PAV Performance Art Video, with the support of Perform Europe as part of the “CONSTELLATION” project.
Performance Art Narratives
The digital, interactive archive presents a unique post-pandemic perspective on performance art, inviting users to explore and reimagine the complexities of human experience. A curated collection of live links, stories, performances, and reflections aims to enhance our understanding of how we navigate the world and connect in these transformative times. https://panarratives.wordpress.com
Presented by the research group of the Montana State University Bozeman. Active members: Kendall McKissock, B.A.; Kailey Springer, B.S.; Ari-Zadra-Tiahrt, B.S. Senior; and Michael Barrett, Ph.D.
LADA Study Room
The Live Art Development Agency will be joining with a temporary installation of Study Boxes containing hand picked selections of books and documentation videos from the LADA Study Room around the history of the Venice International Performance Art Week and body-based performance art. Installed at the festival hub, and curated in dialogue with The ART WEEK and FUTURE RITUAL, each Study Box holds between four to ten items and can be used by audiences for a quick browse or a day-long study. The Study Room, LADA’s core resource, is permanently housed in Bethnal Green (London). https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/study-room-events
Presented by the Live Art Development Agency.
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The event is presented by the non-profit associations Studio Contemporaneo, PAV Performance Art Video, Live Arts Cultures, and EntrAxis in collaboration with Future Ritual, NURT, and Untitled Tbilisi.
Realised with the support of Perform Europe as part of the “CONSTELLATION” project, along with the European Union, Arts Council England, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Montana Arts Council: An Agency of State Government, the Norwegian Theatre Academy, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Live Art Development Agency.
With the kind support of the European Cultural Centre, We Exhibit, and Venice Open Gates.
Artistic direction and curation: VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke)
Co-curators: Laurenz Agustin Arguello, Gabriel Lyons, Giorgi Rodionov, Małgorzata Sady, and Joseph Morgan Schofield.
Program Coordinator for Future Ritual: Regina Agard-Brathwaite
Program Coordinator for Untitled Tbilisi: Sabrina Bellenzier
Artist Assistants: Steef Kersbergen, Giorgia de Santi
Photographers: Lorenza Cini, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Zack Mennell
Videographer: Matilde Sambo
ABOUT PERFORM EUROPE
Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.
Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM, the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts, the European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, the European Dance Development Network, Pearle *, Live Performance Europe, and IDEA Consult.
www.veniceperformanceart.org / IG: @veniceperformanceartweek
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
European Cultural Centre (ECC) - Palazzo Mora, 3659 Strada Nova, Venezia, Italy
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