VII - Constellations of Critical Bodies I 2025
An opportunity to immerse yourself in performance art and collaboration to implement your performance practice for ten days under the guidance of five artists of the Anam Cara Collective.
As part of the Venice International Performance Art Week Educational Learning Programme, we present the sixth in a series of practical workshops on performance art in Venice:
CONSTELLATIONS OF CRITICAL BODIES
10-day Intensive Joint Summer Class on the Practice of Performance Art
With VestAndPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi and Sara Simeoni
June 17-27, 2025
C32 performing art work space, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
With a final public presentation on Thursday, June 26, 2025
With Albert Smith (UK), Amélie Van Liefferinge (BE), Anaïs Kedikian (FR), Athina Kanela (GR), Bettina Hellmrich (DE), Chiara Guillet (IT), Deniz Celebic (BA/TR), Farida Yesmin (BD/UK), Ginevra Napoleoni (IT), Hima Batavia (CA), Jess Quaid (NZ), Katya Petetskaya (AU), lo bil (AU), Maja Chiara Faber (PL), Maria Isidora Vincentelli (IT), Mark Morris (UK), Samm Shackleton (UK), Sylwie Barbier (TW/FR), Yeliz Celebic (BA/TR).
> ON CRITICAL BODIES by VestAndPage
The intensive summer class takes place on campus at C32, a performing arts workspace in the heart of Forte Marghera historic park, which overlooks the western bank of the Venice lagoon. The final workshop will be publicly shared on Thursday, 26 June. The collaborative laboratory process focuses on methods and techniques derived from artistic practices that emphasise bodies, spaces, and the art of encounters:
⚡️ VestAndPage (Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes) utilise performance art and film to create ephemeral and immaterial works that embody ecological, philosophical, and queer feminist thought. They engage with the ritualistic, liminal aspects of performance art and collective imaginings, adopting a poetic, political, embodied, and phenomenological approach to vulnerability and risk as intrinsic qualities of human existence. They share their methodology as lecturers and mentors in performance art at universities and communities worldwide.
⚡️ Andrigo & Aliprandi (Marianna Andrigo and Aldo Aliprandi) combine dance, performance art, sound motion, philosophy, video, installations, and site-specific performances, often characterised by their complete verticality and the resulting shiver it induces. Their poetics centre on detail, silence, and the entropic dynamics evoked by emotions and perception. They share experiences through tangible, physical practices in which the body navigates various conditions to confront and challenge non-ordinary situations while expanding individual potential in listening and absorbing the external.
⚡️ Sara Simeoni is a dancer, choreographer, performer, and certified Danceability teacher. As a long-standing member of the Carolyn Carlson Company, she has toured the world alongside renowned choreographers and artists. She has taught at dance academies internationally. The principles of weight, gravity, fall, and recovery energise the body and perception, fostering fluidity and presence, endurance and awareness, attention to detail, and movement accuracy, to let thought and emotion converge: performance emerges intuitively, imaginatively, and viscerally.
