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DEFIBRILLATOR performance art gallery is proud to present
MAYDAY
An intensive workshop on the praxis of Performance art by VestAndPage (Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes)
>>> WE WILL BE REGISTERING PARTICIPANTS AT THE DOOR ON THE FIRST NIGHT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TAKING THE WORKSHOP AND YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED, PLEASE ARRIVE 15 MINUTES EARLY ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.
"Tired of looking at things from an usual and obsolete perspective, with few friends, full of memories and remembrances, with a no-limits imagination, pathological, perverted, deprived, deviant, surreal, overwhelmed and overruled by daily prosaic worries and ordinary thoughts, being still beautiful, in a constant journey towards new productions, slowly moving to an end, living into an
irreversible crisis, always clutched by doubts, sometimes radiant, other times miserable, being stuck for an answer, when where is a nowhere or somewhere else, with at least a hope in our hearts- looking at a feeble response, our fragile constituent limits- we invite people to gather those left things they really care- to share them with us and the others."
DATES: Monday 9th - Friday 13th September 2013
HOURS: 6-10 pm each evening, with a final presentation of the participants at DEFIBRILLATOR gallery on the evening of Saturday, 14th September
Participants are required to bring: a blanket, a cushion, comfortable clothes, one object they feel related to and open minds and hearts.
The workshop will be documented and edited footage may potentially be included in the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK as part of a pedagogical exhibition.
If you are traveling from out of town and need a place to stay, please email andrea@dfbrl8r.org with WORKSHOP HOUSING as the subject. There is a hostel within walking distance and we have a good relationship with them It's also possible that local artists may be willing to offer humble lodging.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The intensive MAYDAY workshops follow VestAndPage's unique 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 using their own body as a tool:
- To work towards touching point zero in judgment and intention, heightening perception, introspection, to then rebuild an authenticity-based expression, for finally transforming visions and ideas into a concrete artistic action.
- To take distance from being virtuous by establishing, evaluating, and energizing the personal action in oneself.
- To free oneself from common behavioral 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.
- To enter a state of heightened awareness and perception, in order to conceive out-of-the-ordinary artistic visions, being in first instance process-led instead of conceptual.
Actions and exercises are innovative but inspired by Dynamic Breathing, Social Theater, Living Theater, Grotowski, Barba, Stanislavsky, Leclerc, Sufism,
Kundalini Yoga, Macro- and Microspherology, Authenticity, Inner Library, Liminality, Breath, Archetypes, Rituality, Memory activation, Body-Space-Object Time-Duration-Rhythm, Voice/Sound, Emotional Atmosphere, Inter-activity.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian artist, writer and curator Andrea Pagnes have been working together under the name of VestAndPage in Performance art, filmmaking, visual art, writing and as independent curators, such as of the 'Venice International Performance Art Week', since 2006. Their works, recordings and live performances have been presented extensively across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Their formative and research activities include projects with street-girls in Mexico City, Hindu-refugees in Kashmir, They are experienced workshop facilitators for students, art professionals of different backgrounds and non-art participants, either normally endowed or
differently abled, of any age. They have presented practical workshops, research lectures and teachings in institutions worldwide such as Centre for Community
Cultural Development (Hong Kong), Universidad Nacional de las Arte Experimental (Caracas), Taipei Artist Village (Taipei), Theater Academy IsoleComprese (Florence), Academy of Fine Arts (Venice), Universidad Austral
(Valdivia, Chile), Alumnos47 Foundation (Mexico City), Deutsches Institut(Florence), IPA International Performance Art Association (Istanbul), Grace
Exhibition Space (New York), TeaK Theater Academy (Helsinki), Seoul Art Space (Seoul), EMBA Escuela Carlos Morel (Buenos Aires), The Substation (Singapore),
BITEF Theater (Belgrade), NYU Steinhardt School of Culture (Venice/New York).
www.vest-and-page.de
www.sinfin-themovie.de
www.veniceperformanceart.org
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LocationDefibrillator Performance Art Gallery (View)
1136 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60642
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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