PROJECTS
III Venice International Performance Art Week 2016, view of Franko B, I'm Thinking of You. Photograph by Alexander Harbaugh.
Since 2012, the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is the globally renowned platform dedicated to promoting and exploring performance art. Focusing on the production and documentation of the ephemeral and immaterial, the project showcases archives of seminal pieces alongside live programs of performance works of emerging and established artists. Held in Venice, Italy, each edition centres around a specific theme and format, as performance art is rooted in a strong sense of communing cultural, social, or political urgencies and conjuring momentum. With its community-based and artist-run curation, the project has gained international acclaim for supporting artists working in this critical and experimental medium. The project is committed to contributing to the ongoingness of the lineage and the evolution of performance art as a living tradition, social practice, and pivotal driver for cultural change.
II Venice International Performance Art Week 2014, Tania Bruguera, Migrant Manifesto, Photograph by Monika Sobczak.
December 12 - 15, 2024, at European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Venice
With live performances by Irina Baldini, Anne Bean, Mykhaylo Barabash, emilyn claid, Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, Saúl Garcia López, Roman Haideichuk, Sylwia Hanff, Aurah Jendafaaq, Jamila Johnson-Small, Weronika Lewandowska, Ash McNaughton, Ostap Manulyak, Amy Mauvan, Douglas Quin, Malgorzata Sady, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Yaryna Shumska, Marcel Sparmann, Emily Welther. Works on exhibit by VestAndPage 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; Performance Art Narratives and the LADA Study Room.
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.
December 15 - 17, 2023, at European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Venice
With live performances by Petra Kuppers, Andrigo&Aliprandi, Nicola Fornoni, Franko B, Yiannis Pappas, Marta Jovanovic, Dyana Gravina, Vicky Maier & Steef Kersbergen, Priiya Prethora, Gabriele Provenzano, Sabrina Bellenzier, Giorgi Rodionov and works on exhibit by Francesca Fini, Nicola Fornoni, Franko B, Kirsten Heshusius, Vicky Maier & Steef Kersbergen, Sara Kostic, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Petra Kuppers, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Kat Noli, Yiannis Pappas, Kyrahm & Julius Kaiser/Julia Pietrangeli, Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra, Priiya Prethora, Pacha Queer, Katarina Rankovic, Sabrina Bellenzier & Giorgi Rodionov, Matilde Sambo, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Chantal Spapens, Despina Zacharopoulou, Aleksander Zain.
DigiLabAir | Emergencies of the Contemporary focused on sustainable development as a fundamental principle of our societies. The DIGILABAIR exhibition comprises 24 performance-based video works, 15 of which were realised during digital art residencies hosted by the five project partners' European non-profit cultural associations. The results are further disseminated on the PAV Performance Art Video online platform, launched on this occasion. EMERGENCIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY featured a live performance program with internationally recognised and emerging performance artists addressing pressing issues such as marginalisation, poverty, climate emergency, migration, accessibility, social and gender equality, justice and peace.
December 17, 2022, at European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Venice
Under Scars is envisioned and devised by the artist duos VestAndPage (Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes) and Marianna Andrigo & Aldo Aliprandi in collaboration with Irina Baldini, Sabrina Bellenzier, Giorgia de Santi, daz disley, Nicola Fornoni, Marisa Garreffa, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Ash McNaughton, Aisha Pagnes, Enok Ripley, Sara Simeoni, Mauro Sambo, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Marcel Sparmann and Emily Welther.
Under Scars is a gathering of experienced artists and performers who challenge their practice to attempt novel perspectives on art and society. It is a collective work that gravitates around the themes of disability, severe diseases, addiction, patriarchy, capitalism, abuse and discrimination. The wounds and stigma they cause are dealt with poetically through performance actions and artmaking rituals of kinship and togetherness. On this occasion, Palazzo Mora’s main hall and six adjacent rooms transform into a dwelling site of interconnected performance installations, where temporary, intensive co-creation processes aim to reveal the qualities of existence. The hosting space functions as a social-narrative incubator wherein performance methods are intertwined for coagulating inclusive and expansive life stories. The collaborative performance unfolds as it builds on sustained encounters of different artistic research combined with performative practices. As the title suggests, the artists now gather to unveil precious experiences of vulnerabilities, hesitations, fragilities, hopes, the unspoken they carry under their cicatrices, and wounds healed by performing. Memories and experiential transformation processes entwine and collide to respond poetically to present emergencies.
2022 • Co-Creation Residency: Body Matters
May 31 to June 10, 2022, with a public sharing on June 9, C32 performingartworkspace, Forte Marghera, Mestre-Venice
With Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Irina Baldini, selina bonelli, daz disley, Nicola Fornoni, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Ash McNaughton, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Sara Simeoni, Marcel Sparmann, VestAndPage (Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes), Emily Welther.
COVID-19 has drastically changed the way we tell, interpret and communicate our stories to others. After two years of inactivity compelled by the pandemic, the Venice International Performance Art Week returns with a residential project, which arises from the need to re-form a temporary artistic community in a physical space similar to a blank page. In these precarious times, resuming artistic collaboration in proximity means returning to imagining not only which future environments we expect to live in, but above all identifying the sources of inspiration we seek and the most suitable tools to be able to implement our desires.
2020 • PERFORMANCE ART FILM PROGRAM
HYBRID BODY – POETIC BODY 2012
EXHIBITION: Yoko Ono, VALIE EXPORT, Hermann Nitsch, Jan Fabre, Gabriela Alonso, Santiago Cao, David Dalla Venezia, Francesca Fini, Francesco Kiàis, Andrea Morucchio, Nelda Ramos, Shima, Manuel Vason, Marcus Vinicius, VestAndPage LIVE PROGRAM & EXHIBITION: Alperoa, BBB Johannes Deimling, Helena Goldwater, Snežana Golubović, Jason Lim, Rubiane Maia, Wanda Moretti | Il Posto, Boris Nieslony, Jill Orr, Macarena Perich Rosas, Gonzalo Rabanal, Joseph Ravens, Prem Sarjo, Ilija Šoškić, Suka Off, Weeks & Whitford, Lee Wen, Zierle & Carter. ART WEEK Fringe: Amadeo Abello, Alessandra Bucchi, Samanta Cinquini & Luca Nava, Marita Fox, Micaela Leonardi, Dominique Ploner, Ralf Peters, Marcel Sparmann, Marina Widen. ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI VENEZIA: Guiseppe Abate, Giada Giudetti & Silvia Bonazzi, Marta del Fabbro, Giulia de Giovanelli, Gianluca Giuso & Elisa Sartori, Andrea Grotto, Christiano Menchini, Anita Ferro Milone, Agnes Pesec, Francesca Piovesan, Alice Pozzoli.
RITUAL BODY – POLITICAL BODY 2014
EXHIBITION: Vito Acconci, Elias Adasme, Alain Arias-Misson, Richard Ashrowan, Jelili Atiku, Adina Bar-On, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Waldo Bien, Paulo Bruscky, Chris Burden, Angel Delgado, El Siluetazo, Terry Fox, Guillermo Giampietro, Allen Ginsberg, Tehching Hsieh, Zhang Huan, Waldemar Januszczak, Norbert Klassen, Sigalit Landau, Legend Lin Dance Theatre, Juan Loyola, Gastao de Magalhaes, Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw, Boris Nieslony & Gerhard Dirmoser, Omen Teatar, Clemente Padin, Gina Pane, Leticia Parente, Bob Raymond, Pedro Reyes, Rong Rong, Inder Salim, Rosemberg Sandoval, Carolee Schneemann, Gerry Schum, Adrian Stimson, Ulay, VestAndPage, Paul Wong. LIVE PROGRAM: Andrigo & Aliprandi, Marilyn Arsem, Bean, Tania Bruguera, Barbara Campbell, Shannon Cochrane, Norma Flores, Regina José Galindo, Melissa García Aguirre, Arti Grabowski, Andrea Hackl, Enrique Ježik, Sandra Johnston, Zai Kuning, La Pocha Nostra, Alastair MacLennan, Jill McDermid, Sarah-Jane Norman, Vela Phelan, Martin Renteria, Olivier de Sagazan, Benjamin Sebastian, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Terry Smith, Alice Vogler, Julie Vulcan, Wen Yau. ART WEEK Fringe: Eames Armstrong, Ivana Filip, Erik Hokanson, Gabriele Longega, Roberta Orlando, Lissi Sanchez, Stefania Soskic, Olmo Stuppia.
FRAGILE BODY – MATERIAL BODY 2016
ARTISTS OF HONOUR (LIVE | EXHIBITION | PRESENTATION): Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca, Marilyn Arsem, Giovanni Fontana, Franko B, Antonio Manuel, ORLAN, Stelarc. EXHIBITION: Marina Abramović, Dimitris Alithinos, John Baldessari, Lisa Bufano, John Cage & Klaus vom Bruch, Sophie Calle, Cassils, Panos Charalambou, Thanassis Chondros/Alexandra Katsiani, Coco Fusco & Guillermo Gómez-Peña / Paula Heredia, Ria Hartley, Mona Hatoum, Irwin, Maria Karavela, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Arrigo Lora Totino, Tran Luong, Ato Malinda, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman & Nam June Paik, Andrea Morucchio, Otto Mühl & Hermann Nitsch, Bruce Nauman, OHO Group, Yoko Ono, Leda Papaconstantìnou, Mike Parr, Douglas Quin + Lorne Covington, Pipilotti Rist, Lerato Shadi, Demetrio Stratos, Matej Stupica & Lenka Đorojević, Theodoros,sculptor, VestAndPage, Bill Viola, Andy Warhol & Jørgen Leth, Lawrence Weiner, Jud Yalkut, Mary Zygouri ART WEEK Fringe: Aisha Ryannon Pagnes, Matilde Sambo & Furio Ganz, Wiktoria Wojciechowska. LIVE PROGRAM: Janusz Bałdyga, Evangelia Basdekis, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Samanta Cinquini & Luca Nava, Helen Cole, Alexander Del Re, Jeannette Ehlers, Nicola Fornoni, Christina Georgiou, Gim Gwang Cheol, gyrl grip, Jeff Huckleberry, Casey Jenkins, Anna Kosarewska, KörperSchafftKlang, Kyrahm + Julius Kaiser, Sara Kostić, jamie lewis hadley, Andrea Marcaccio, Noé Martínez & María Sosa, James McAllister, Johann Merrich, Mladen Miljanović, Martin O'Brien, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, Alexandros Plomaritis, Alicia Radage, Preach R Sun, Ivana Ranisavljević, Mauro Sambo, Marcel Sparmann, Suka Off, Susanne Weins & Sašo Vollmaier ART WEEK Fringe: Ronald Bal, Giovanni Barbera, Jin Bells, Bianca Bonaldi, Bruno Camargo, Giorgia De Santi, Giovanna Fattoretto, Gabiele Longega, Giulia Mattera, Valeria Munoz, Rudi Salpietra, Cristiana Zeta Rolla, Jasmin Schaitl, Stefania Soskic, Erica Storer de Araujo, Keike Twisselmann, Cristiano Vignotto.
