VIII - Constellations of Critical Bodies II 2026

10-days Intensive Joint Summer Class on the Practice of Performance Art

With VestAndPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi, Sara Simeoni and Joseph Morgan Schofield

June 24 to July 3, 2026

C32 performing art work space, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

With a final public presentation on Thursday, July 2, 2026

With Aya Afaneh (PSE/JO), E, Susan Bickford (US), charlene glaea (MT),  Ecaterina Grigorieva (MD/NL), Claudia Valeria Gómez Leija (MX), Elena Lorenzi (IT), Lux (IT), Elisabeth Louise Lund (NO), Manuela Maroli (IT), Riccardo Meneghini (IT), Chomphunut Phuttha (TH), Helene Thorp (NO), Ting Tsai (TW), Ione Wang (US), and Sandra Zanetti (US/UK).

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, July 2. Its documentation will be included in the Venice International Performance Art Week archive. The collaborative laboratory process focuses on methods and techniques derived from artistic practices that emphasise bodies, spaces, and the art of encounters by VestAndPage (Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes), Andrigo & Aliprandi (Marianna Andrigo and Aldo Aliprandi), Sara Simeoni and Joseph Morgan Schofield.