I - VestAndPage "MayDay" 2013

In the framework of the Educational Learning Program of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK, Studio Contemporaneo and Live Arts Cultures presented the first of a series of practical workshops on performance art in Venice.

 

MAYDAY: Summer Class by VestAndPage

21 - 28 May 2013

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

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: Martina Buzzi (CH) | Sofie Knudsen Jansson (NO) | Micaela Leonardi (IT) | Guglielmo Maggini (IT) | Andrea Nolden (DE) | Roberta Orlando (IT) | Birgit Pacht (DE) | Federica Pamio (IT) | Lissi Sanchez (ES) | Jasmin Schaitl (AU) | Markus Schaller (DE) | Asa Shimada (JP) | Stefania Soskic (IT) | Paul Striegel (DE) | Marit Tunestveit Dyre (NO) | Martyna Wolna (PL)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MayDay is an 8-day intensive workshop on the praxis of performance art, following performance artist duo VestAndPage's method through the process of making a performative piece. During the practical exercises, under various conditions, the participants are provided with means to conceive, develop and realize a performance, mainly only using their own body as a tool:

• To exercise and research on a changing daily basis

• To work towards touching point zero in perception, introspection, judgement (on one self and on the others) and intention, to then rebuild a new way of authenticity-based perception and expression, for finally transforming visions and ideas into a concrete artistic action.

• To take distance from merely being virtuous by establishing, evaluating, and energizing the personal action in se.

• To free oneself from common behavioural patterns so as to create new ways of encountering, collaborating and living.

• To overcome the fragile constituent limits, may they be based on physicality, fears or social patterns.

• To touch and strengthen the most human inner sensors in order to activate personal and universal memories, for using as germinal matter for future artistic substance.

Actions and exercises are innovative but inspired by Dynamic Breathing, Social Theatre, Living Theatre, Macro and Micro Spherology, Inner Library, Liminality, Archetypes, Rituality, Memory activation, Body-Space-Object, Time-Duration-Rhythm, Voice/Sound, Emotional Atmosphere, Inter-activity.
The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and artistic sensitivity to conceive a final, individual performance.