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Yujun, Ye - Taiwan
Artist , Curator, Owner of instant42 art space and Founder of Baguashan Power Art Festival
Ye studied in France receiving a Diplôme National Suprieur Expression Plastique from Ecole Nationale Supérieur d’Arts de Paris-Cergy and a Master’s degree in Art et Media Numérique from Paris 1 Sorbonne. Ye has often been involved in cross-disciplinary collaboration with artists.
The forms of her works are mainly of performance arts, video installations, and sound performances, focusing on private and public spaces of bodies and public relations. and immigration issues.
2013 Ye and French artist Alexis Mailles created instant 42 art space in New Taipei City, Taiwan; They consider constructing and managing the space as a form in creation. This space is a complex art space with 3 major functions: art exhibition, studio, and artist-in-residence.
Since 2017 , she moved from instant42 to come back her hometown-Changhua, and to focus her own work between contemporary art and the community.
She has created a Festival with Local youngest artists called Baguashan Power Art Festival, and she was the Creator and curator of the
2021 Changhua international Festival of Art
Wararat Tati - Thailand
Wararat Tati was born in Lumphun, Thailand, lives in Chiang Mai , graduated from Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
First her artwork has been painting and later she became more interested in installation art. She began to experiment with the meaning of the material. Finally, she was interested in performance art and the specificity of materialsafter analysis supported her live artwork.
In all her art she involves the environment, social conditions and the perception of humanity. Her artwork is process based and often focuses on experimentation together with the preliminary information which has been obtained from a specific location.
Suvajit Rajsamanta - India
My work is a tribute and a humble submission to Mother Nature in return for the beautiful gifts of life, love and hope. I draw inspiration from Mother Nature that has blessed us all with nourishment for mind, body and soul and I am passionately driven by a strong desire to appreciate it, treasure it and preserve it.
Nature is free, it is wild and in its wildest form it is most beautiful. I belong from West Bengal and my childhood was in the midst of nature all around. Beautiful ponds, trees, wild herbs, shrubs and creepers all around here and there. Gaining a sense of connection with the surrounding natural environment had a huge influence on my art. Through my art, I try to portray the unseen intricacies of nature’s beauty in its natural form.
When I go home now, I miss those days….now its concrete around. Ponds have been filled to make home. Beautiful homes and crafted gardens took place of those wild nature.
Art being a strong and effective medium to reach out to masses, through my work, I want to make people aware of the need to appreciate the beauty of nature and preserve it.
Laurence Beaudoin Morin - Canada Montreal
Artist statement
My practice focuses on territory and, by displacing the elements that compose it, I seek to assemble visual poems. Through the mediums of performance and video, I narrate not only my personal journey but also our collective encounter with spaces.
My approach often involves pausing the creative process to reframe and reorder time, inviting viewers to contemplate the barely perceptible. I am drawn to the allure of randomness, accidents, danger, and catastrophes, as they evoke or instigate movements that captivate my interest.
In essence, my work is an invitation to delve into the intricate layers of space, where narratives unfold and perceptions shift, prompting a deeper engagement with the world around us.
Priyanthi Anusha - Sri Lanka
Artist concept note
The past is something that gets buried anyway.
Lockdown is a time when everyone thinks they should bury their bad memories. It's not pretty. Because my father died in 2021 without being able to get proper treatment
Happened during the lockout of the year. I feel like coal, that memory of that moment of grief alone, away from friends and relatives.
I invite you to share that sadness with me.
Come and eat burnt wood charcoal with me.
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Boat Sutasinee Kansomdee - Thailand
Boat Sutasinee bornm in 1987 lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
She graduated From the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University in Printmaking in 2011.In 2021 she graduated at Chiang Mai University with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts. The media she works with are printmaking, mixed media installation, video, and performance art. Boat is inspired by daily life and uses her art to research the various way of human expression. Creating art in the public space is important for her to connect to different people and to share their stories. Performance art is a tool to Challenge the way we think about social issues and it can help to strengthen the community Boat collaborates with many other artists. She is part of the Chiang Mai performance art group. In 2023 she was a director of Unlimited International Performance Art Festival with Beate Linne.
Boat and her live performance Art is related to the line of power and the limitation of power that occurs in the history of art.
Marie Dufaud - France
She was born in Strasbourg and lives in Lille.
After studying philosophy, she began teaching, with the aim of opening up a space free of readymade
thinking and building an ethic of life.
At the same time, after training at Pina Bausch's dance school in Wuppertal and several theatrical
internships, she pursued a career as a dancer, exploring choreography, dramaturgy and writing.
She writes performance reviews and teaches at the Faculty of Arts, initiating Les goûters de Socrate:
a philosophy practice for children and teenagers.
She also trained in art therapy and family therapy, two practices in which the symbolic power of art
becomes a therapeutic tool.
She became a therapist, welcoming patients into a co-therapeutic relationship, because therapists are
neither all-powerful nor immune to disasters.
She also writes, weaving together all the strings of her bow to create poetry that speaks of pain.
BARBARA LE BÉGUEC FRIEDMAN - France
Visual Art – Performance Art
Barbara Le Béguec Friedman (born 1982) is an artist based in Perpignan, France.
In 2005, she started exploring the dialogue between inner and outer landscapes through mediums such as drawing, video, sound, installation and photography.From 2010 to 2017 she focuses her research on the confrontation with otherness.
Her work questions the idea of labelling and the impermeability of the boxes in which we try to evolve. The notion of paradox is deeply present in her work, through the ideas like : nothing exists without its opposite, absence is a form of presence or every boundary is also a meeting point... ideas she often used as a way of questioning, of challenging once again what appears to be a single fixed reality.
She participated in the Festival FNAF, Prague (Czech Republic) in 2023 ; SITE site responsive performance art interventions, Upper Culand Pit, Burham (UK) in 2022 ; 6th edition of the International Performance Festival CORPOREA, Zacatecas (Mexico) in 2020 ; the IMAF Festival, NoviSad(Serbia) in 2019; the 1st MHPAB Morni Hills Biennial of Performance Art, Kurukshetra & Chandigarh (India) in 2016; the 15th International Performance Art Festival OPEN and at the international performance art tour ARTNOW LiveTour| from Beijing to AnYang, Beijing (China); the MPA-B 2012 & 2015| Performance Art Month – Berlin ; AFIAC 2015 'Des artistes chez l'habitant' 16th edition, Fiac (France) and the NUIT BLANCHE 2013 | 5th edition of the FRASQ, Paris (France).
Godwin Constantine - Sri Lanka
Studied art at Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA)
BA (Philosophy) University of London . 2009
BA in Social Sciences –Open University of Sri Lanka 2014
MA in Tamil – University of Madras 2017
Founder Member,
Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts
theertha International Artists Collective
Chairman - Theertha International Artists Collective from 2018
Co-director – Theertha Performance Platform from 2015
Selected conference/seminar presentations
• Seminar speaker at FUGITIVE FORMSPERFORMANCE IN SOUTH ASIA
– TATE Modern seminar – October 2022
• 20 years of Performance Art in Sri Lanka - PAN Asia conference
(Performance Art Network Asia) South Korea, 2019-
• Politics and Aesthetics of Public Space Performance. Seminar convenor
and Speaker:
• Aesthetics, Politics, and Histories: The Social Context of Art AAANZ
Conference 2018, Melbourne, Australia
• Performance and Identity – Conference paper
• Performance Studies International Conference – Overflow 2017 ,
Hamburg, Germany
• Performitivity of Identity - conference paper – International Performing
Arts Conference , Eastern University of Sri Lanka 2016
Literary Critic and writer
• Publised several articles on art, literature and politics in periodicals and
news papers
• Published 2 books (Tamil) - 20th century art
- Art and Aesthetics
• Presented papers on art at local and international conferences
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Daisuke Takeya - Japan, Canada
Born and raised in Japan, interdisciplinary artist Daisuke Takeya obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His praxis is comprised of the exploration of nature and plausibility in contemporary society, and hinges on all kinds of double meanings. Currently based in Toronto, Canada and Ishinomaki, Japan, Daisuke has had numerous international solo and group exhibitions. As a performance artist, Takeya has participated in numerous festivals such as; VIVA EXCON, Antique, the Philippines; Flow, Chicago, the USA; PAUSA, New York, the USA; BLACK KIT 40, Koln, Germany; full SUN – the far and the central – Open Field, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Performances en pliegue, Montevideo, Uruguay; ZERO PLATFORM, Yangon, Myanmar; undisclosed territory #11, Solo, Indonesia; ECHT JETZT International Performance Art Festival, Germany; Above the Clouds International Live Art Festival, China; UP-ON, Chengdu, China; SIPAF, Manila, the Philippines; Kathmandu International Performance Art Festival, Nepal; Asiatopia (at the BACC), Bangkok, Thailand; Unlimited, Chiangmai, Thailand; and Latitude, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. He is the director of Responding: International Performance Art Initiative.
Rose Texier - France
I am studying performing arts and visual arts in Tourcoing , France. Presently, I am in my last year of fine arts, graduating in June 2024 for my master in arts. I am very open-minded, ready to take part in a multitude of experiences with a view to a constant enrichment of my artistic practice. I have been drawn to the world of the stage and the performing arts. I am working with sound, voice, performance art, dance, writing and theatre. My main engagement is the exploration with the involvement of the
body.
Everything I create appears poetic, and my ambition is to find authenticity in each project which I develop.
Artistic Experiences Excerpts
-2023: film adaptation in progress, of my performance entitled “Inner Movement”
co-directed and developed with the team of Suzanne Carré student at INSAS, in
Brussels.
-2023: extracurricular project organized with my class of Fine Arts of Braunschweig;
exhibition «Fifteeeeeeeeeeeeeee», around the theme «failure»: failure, lack, failure at
the gallery U10 with the collective of artists «Commons», in Belgrade, organized
from 19 July to 29 July. Co-direction of workshops: Practicing reinvention of the
body(self) at the exhibition in Belgrade.
-2023: participation in the workshop organized by Sandrine Nogueira «Versuchen zu
reparien», «Repairing the living» at the Theaterhaus, Mitte and the theaterhaus,
Schöneweide, Berlin, April 2023.
-2023: conducting a music workshop around the play: Fake Voices, as part of
projektwoche, Realschule, at a school in Braunschweig
-2023: Performance: Inner Movement, shown at the open house at the University of
Fine Arts in Braunschweig
- 2023: Erasmus, from October 2022 to July 2023 at the University of Applied Arts,
Braunschweig, Germany;
- 2022: participation in the Platforms Project fair in Athens
- 2022: Participation in the performance festival "Perspectives des traits" at the
Muba de Tourcoing
- 2022: Break as a living model for evening classes at ESA Tourcoing
- 2021:Theatre and emerging performance workshop organised by the Forum in Berlin
Chanchal Banga - India
Chanchal Banga was born in India. He currently lives and works in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Israel. He completed his art studies in the Post Master Program at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2001-2002) as part of a scholarship from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He holds a BA in Art (1997) and MFA from MSU (specialized in prints), Baroda, India (1999).
Chanchal is a multi disiplinary artist. Over the years, he has worked in many mediums. Watercolors and Indian ink on various types of paper; acrylic paintings on small and big canvas; large-scale installations side by side with performance art that gives another layer to the show.
In terms of his artistic style and the narratives in his works, it is possible to see a combination of opposing themes. On the one hand, his works are symbolic, universal and minimalist. On the other hand, they are full of cultural references from the Indian tradition and hybrid creatures,
a subjective expression of the pandemic experience, alongside aspects of contemporary Israeli culture in which he lives and works. Another emphasis in his work is the use of sexuality and socio-political content, which is seasoned with much humor.
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Kirushan SivagnanamI - Sri Lanka/UK
Kirushan sivagnanam was born in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. He is a visual artist. He obtained his BFA in Art and Design from University of Jaffna in 2016. He now lives in the UK. He had a solo exhibition and group exhibitions in Sri Lanka, India and UK. He has made Performance Art in open air and gallery spaces. He has acted in short films.
Kirushan Sivagnanam's creative process is filled with layers of questions, starting with "Who am I?“ and "Am I changing my identity or are my surroundings changing it?". His artwork marks his search for identity, drawing from his own changing situations and positions.
His raw, abstract compositions are based on what the artist calls 'inner landscapes". The artworks are representations of the continual search for identity within changing physical, psychological and ideological landscapes.
Guest Artist Yadanar Win - Myanmar/France
Yadanar Win is a multimedia artist from Myanmar currently based in Marseille, France.
With an early interest in international exchange, driven by her university studies in English, she joined New Zero Art Space as a collaborative member in 2009,
after that she involved in the culture scene for 10 years not only as an artist but also organized and coordinated several cultural projects and exchanges in Myanmar.
Her unique ability to seamlessly join her own body, to the document of her performance, and bring them together into an art object is reflective of her generation’s willingness to experiment with all mediums and abandon the traditional painting and sculpture so common in the Myanmar art scene.
Her performances are passionate and critical, often citing the plight of Myanmar’s peace and democracy process and personal struggles as a young female
artist under tyranny reign.
https://www.yadanarwin-art.com/
Guest Artist Alice De Visscher – Belgium
I’m interested in the image of my body, the structure of the space, the properties of the material. By putting those three elements into a relationship, I’m looking for unusual, somewhat minimal actions which stimulate the interpretation of the audience. I’m following my intuitions, in the belief that they will translate my way to live in this world now.
I'm interested in the perceptions by the body and the creation by improvisation, because for art I trust body, intuition and improvisation more than mental reflexion.
Born in 1979, I live and work in Brussels. I studied theatre (graduating in 2004) and did some visual and experimental theatre in Belgium. My artwork has been mainly focused on performance and video since 2006 (queer performance then more visual and site specific performance), then also on drawing and installation with paper
(since 2014). It has been presented in different countries.
Minimalistic poetry
Intuition
Body - Space- Material
Can the body be minimalistic?
Can the horizon be a line?
Can a performance be a drawing?
How to think and decide by intuition instead of words?
Can a material give an existence to my sensitivity?
https://alicedevisscher.wordpress.com/
Guest Artist Rahul Adhikari Sharma - India
With a master's degree in Performance Studies from the esteemed Ambedkar University, Rahul has delved deep into the heart of the theatrical world, emerging as a virtuoso in his field.
His journey through the world of theatre spans an impressive eight years, where he has honed his craft and added layers of depth and creativity to his repertoire. Rahul's dedication to the stage is palpable in every step he takes, with each performance a testament to his passion and commitment. With an insatiable passion for the stage, he transforms scripts into emotional tapestries, pushing the boundaries of human experience through his creative endeavours. A consummate storyteller, director, and collaborator, Rahul's artistic journey radiates brilliance, promising to continue illuminating the cultural landscape with his profound talent, expansive knowledge, and unwavering commitment to the performing arts.
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Guest Artist Andreas Hoffmann - Germany
1982-1989 Work with form and content of the mask and body theater Study at of the Theater Academy Arhus, Denmark. Study of sculpture at the Free Academy of Art Nürtingen, Germany. Study of pedagogy at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Pedagogic , Reutlingen.
Studied sculpture, multimedia and performance art at the University of the Arts Berlin, with Prof. Shinkichi Tajiri
Since 1990 free artist and lecturer. Lecturer for art, performance art and theatre pedagogy at the University of Education Ludwigsburg, the University for Social Work Reutlingen, the University of Tübingen and the Theatre Pedagogy Centre Baden-Württemberg.
Works are in private collections and museums.Exhibitions, installations and performances in various countries. Curator and organizer of exhibitions and festivals. Artistic director of "Echt Jetzt! and "fields of vision" Performance Art Festival, Reutlingen, Tübingen, Stuttgart. International Participation in art actions and festivals in China, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar and European countries.
The focus of my work is the human being, his appearance and social context. The subject of my artistic representation was for many years my own body, which exemplarily became my field of research. I was interested in its volume, its postures, its skin, its wounds and the traces that time leaves on it. From this work I developed installations whose starting point were performances. Postures were cast directly from the body by assistants, skin was scanned, wounds were recorded, eyes acted as mirrors, and interaction emerged from touch. The material that emerged from the performances developed into graphics, photographs, sculptures and installations. Today, social, media and performative art projects are created in the context of human perception, perspectives, communication and social-political debate.
Guest Artist Bandu Manamperi - Sri Lanka
BANDU MANAMPERI holds a BFA in sculpture and is a core member of Colombo’s Theertha Artists’ Collective. One of the initiators of performance art in
Sri Lanka, Bandu remains one of the leading performance artists active at present. He creates highly personal art experiences based on the transformation
of his own body. His art practice also encompasses sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation art. He lectures and consults widely on a range of topics including
contemporary art, performance, museology, and local craft traditions. Manamperi’s praxis brings together notions of memory and demonstrates how the effects of external events and doctrines are absorbed into the individual’s being through the body to create memories that become inscribed within us.
Guest Artist Evamaria Schaller - Germany /Austria
Evamaria Schaller is a media artist from Austria, living and working close to Cologne, Germany. Her work work oscillates between performance and video art. She deals with everyday actions and its absurdity through simple gestures. Her own body is her measure. She describes her artistic process as an attempt to translate “time to images in space”. She deals with issues relevant to women and gender roles, questions socio-political structures. As an organiser, it is important to her to live hospitality as an artistic approach.
Guest Artist Priyam Dubey - India
Priyam Dubey is a performer, writer and a percussionist, who is working for a NGO, which works for Constitutional Awareness.He has studied Performance studies from Ambedkar University Delhi.
He has been an active member and former President of Deshbandhu Dramatics society, DU. He has acted in more than 150 performances of street plays which also includes a project for the National School of Drama under the Ministry of Culture. He has also devised a Performance action under the School of Culture and Creative Expression of Ambedkar University Delhi which was Showcased in the International Festival of Theatre School in Kerela.
Apart from theatre he has worked as a Tertiary cast in a Netflix Original and has written screenplays for short films.
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Guest Artist - Katya Petetskaya - Australia
Katya Petetskaya is a visual artist working across painting and performance art. Born in the Soviet Union, she grew up through the change of regimes in ‘90s Russia, which continue to have an impact on her practice today. Petetskaya’s works record her personal experiences and anxieties of trying to adjust to accelerated changes of a world that is constantly in the process of reaching yet another tipping point. She says “Throughout my life, I have experienced dramatic social and political changes that affected my life and lives around me. Today I feel this process has not stopped but accelerated. I want to record this.” Her practice is based in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
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Guest Artist - Pulak kr Sarkar - Bangladesh
Pulak kr Sarkar born and raised in Rangpur, Bangladesh. 2016 he got a chance in Drawing and Painting dept. of University of Dhaka, In the year 2017 he got ICCR 4 years scholarship to complete his Bachelor's degree from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. He is doing his master’s degree program from the same university. Alongside he runs a collective named "WhoyaitArtSpace".
His recent work is based on the organic extension body sensation of his when he goes through any physical change of losing body fat where he can Social discourse also the gestural representation of ultrasound and surface of tarpaulin while merging its presence into his muted color palette, to generate a dialogue on the feed and feeding habits. His work is addressing minimalism along with iconography amalgamated meth is always based on an ideology that is created by society.
Guest Artist - Abel Sarang Sabarmathi - India
Abel Sarang is a student and researcher from Kerala, a state in
Southern India. He graduated in Performance studies from Ambedkar
University Delhi in 2021. After finishing his Bachelors in
Mathematics he has turned into performance studies as his academic
discipline because of keen interest in theatre and performance
traditions in contemporary kerala. He was part of many political plays
during his college days in connection with left oriented student
activism.
During his Master's programme in AUD which was mostly
completed during the covid-19 Pandemic. He has done several performance
productions via online with his cohort members in School of Culture
and Creative Expressions. His M.A dissertation investigates and
evaluates the affinity of the evolution of Malayalam playwright and
director K.T Muhammad’s theatre discourse and social reformation of
Kerala through reflecting on his social drama 'Ithu Bhoomiyanu'.
He will explore further the amateur and professional theatre of
Kerala to historicise and contextualise the progressive
socio-political movements that emerged in the 20th century.
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Guest Artist - Carron Little - USA
Carron Little lives and works in Chicago, USA and is of Scottish heritage. Carron fuses poetry and performance art practices creating civic engagement projects and participatory public performances in cities and neighborhoods. She co-founded Out of Site Chicago with Whitney Tassie in 2011. Out of Site has transformed into a network and a platform for public performance practice in pandemic times. Carron organized Flow • embody in site 2021, an online symposium for public performance practices with the Out of Site artist community.
The transformation of public places that have been compromised by systemic violence, institutional racism and sexism informs her long-term commitment to working in public space as an artist and cultural producer. Carron performs as queen of luxuria, a ‘digital sprite fairy’ who believes in the power of art to transform, empower and to unite our communities. She has created a ‘palette of utopia’ that has evolved from an artistic process of discovery and experimentation. The joy of being creative is in constant dialogue between her interdisciplinary art practice and her bodywork practice.
To date Carron has presented her performances and artistic work in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, and Oklahoma in the USA and internationally in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Spain, and Switzerland. Most recently in 2021 Carron’s performances include a participatory performance project for Ludington, Michigan in Spring 2021 entitled Gie Ben Ilka Gill | To Give In Each Measure curated by Eden Unluata-Foley, a collaborative public performance with Isa Fontbona on the steps of the Cathedral in Girona, Spain on July 19, a performance curated by Martine Viale for Action Art Encounter on September 5, and a commissioned performance work for the Performances in Urgent Times exhibition, curated by Beau Coleman, as part of the Research-Creation in Urgent Times symposium for SPAR2C, an international research-creation center at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada on October 22.
Carron also writes policy on equity, diversity and inclusion in the arts authoring the 50 | 50 Initiative for CAA 2020 and is actively involved in public art policy in Chicago, USA.
Carron Little homepage
Social Media facebook 1, facebook 2, twitter 1, twitter 2, instagram 1, instagram 2
If my body were you by Carron Little aka queen of luxuria, photo by Doug Fogelson
Guest Artist Tatjana Koroleva - Canada
My work focuses on the therapeutic aspects of performance art and the process of community formation through butoh-inspired performance practices. Conceptually, my work engages with the subjects of migration, relocation, exclusion, integration, and collective trauma explored through the framework of ritual. Specifically, my performances and participatory events focus on exploring psychology of immigration, implicit memory, and the variety of ways unacknowledged past continues to influence our present. My approach to performance art is defined by the framework of radical intimacy, vulnerability, and affect employed with the purpose of initiating profound communal experiences. I am interested in exploring the possibilities of sensual communication including touch, smell, taste and sound to unfold the therapeutic quality of collective ritualistic practices. Intimacy of emotional and physical experiences is the starting point of any of my performative experiments. Through this work, I search for the ways to transcend socially constructed models of individuality promoted in contemporary late-capitalist cultures and to create new mechanisms of formation and reinforcement of community by the means of ritual.
Guest Artist Undock 언덕 - South Korea
I have been wandering the world for 10 years, doing creative activities regardless of genre such as painting, independent film, poetry, and dance.
Currently, I am based in Korea and Berlin, focusing on installation and performance art.
Mainly, I get inspiration from empty houses or alleys where it is difficult to find traces of capitalism.
After installing art works improvisily by squats, I invite the audience.
Or I exhibit photos or videos of improvised performances from squats spot
The goal is to finally wake up from a nap and dance as if it were nothing.
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Guest Artist Boyet De Mesa - Philippines
Boyet de Mesa, lives and works in Sta. Ana Manila, Philippines. Boyet is a son of a jeepney driver and a church lay worker. He is currently an instructor in the College of Arts and Letters at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila and taking up Philippines Studies in University in the Philippines.
He is a visual/performance artist and a cultural worker. His involvement and practice in performance art (from late 1990s) led him to emphasize the need for solidarity among artists and the society, especially in the era of globalization. He initiated SIPA International , an annual performance solidarity event in the Philippines, started in 2016. In his work he emphasizes images, gestures and allegory that aim to leave a huge impact on the viewer, as well as the desire to have a collective experience or memory in each performance through collaboration and public involvement in the performance.. He addresses the challenges of the times, especially the issue of violation of human rights, labor, landlessness, colonialism and history and solidarity.
FB:@BoyetDM @Sipa Pinas
take care and in solidarity boyet Index - Photo Lito Ocampo 2019
Guest Artist Gilivanka Kedzior - France
After working as a duo under the name of Red Bind, Gilivanka Kedzior has been developing since 2016 a more personal body of works in which video, photography, installation and performance question incommunicability and the strength of paradoxes.
Her performance art practice articulates itself during interventions in the public or institutional space - then leaving little or no trace -, in front of the video camera or photographic apparatus, and in a series of works on paper conceived from performative protocols of conditioned writing - Writings -, in which she experiments through the repetition of a simple action the liberating paradoxes of the penitential dimension and of contemplation in action.
She analyzes the inability/difficulty in communicating of the enduring body and its subdivision through time, echoing a constant reflection on woman condition, and thus confronts all authorities with their determinings of behaviors by using the body as a tool of resistance.
In 2017, her video- Être là - (transl. Being There ) is exhibited at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain of Oran, Algeria, during the 4th Biennale méditerranéenne d’art contemporain Migration & Exode. In 2018, her work is shown in Canada, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Hong Kong and Indonesia.
In 2019, she receives a grant from the Institut Français de Finlande to perform at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.
Anatopism 2021 - Video Marion Sciuto Video Still
Liber Axis 2021 - Photo Edwige Mandrou
Guest Artist Ruth Vigueras Bravo - Mexico
Ruth Vigueras Bravo is a Mexican visual artist, whose work focuses on performance art and photography. She holds a bachelor degree and a master's in Visual Arts. Her Performance work characterizes in urban Site-Specific interventions with social and political connotations, coming from a process of autoethnographic research in which the body acts as an interlocutor in the public space. Duo to her social interest, she teaches workshops, special courses, as well as performance and photography seminars. She also engages the community at national and international level creating various electronic and printed publications, with essays on contemporary art and photography.
She has participated at various performance and action art festivals in: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Spain, United States, Italy, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Portugal, South Korea, Thailand and Venezuela. She was a fellow at the National Council for Culture and the Arts in Mexico (CONACULTA) and at the Postgraduate in Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
My creative process investigates autoethnography for the realization of Site-Specific urban interventions, together with the relationship between space, context and sign. Where my body is the interlocutor that allows me to rebuild and shake the imaginary perception of corporeality; to show a filtered and value-laden interpretation, which become my constant search, by crossing the borders of social norms, culture, religion, mind and body.
Actions where my body is symbolic material, which is transformed into a political, social, visceral, abject, everyday, emotional, sexual and cartographic being. Of which, I collect experiences, objects, customs, flavors and aromas. Expressionist gestures that confront the public with an absurd and everyday reality in fleeting time; that allow me to question, evidence and reconstruct meanings, to go through reflective and anthropological processes, transmuted into catharsis.
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Guest Artist Shakti Milan Sharma - India
Shakti Milan Sharma is an emerging inter-sectional multidisciplinary artist from New Delhi, India. His area of interests/concerns consistently engage with questions of body in both, the phenomenological and the performative contexts through multiple prisms and lenses. His creative explorations have been demonstrated through different forms and modes of practice encouraging calibrated staging of complex ideas regarding human existence, questions of identity, gendered body, urban experience, body as an archive of learnt responses as well as unconscious reflexes.
After pursuing undergraduate degree in History from Hansraj College-Delhi University and receiving training in modern/contemporary dancing for three years, he moved ahead with his endeavours and extended his attempts in his Masters in Visual Arts Practice from Ambedkar University Delhi under the guidance of Shivaji K Panikkar, Santhosh Sadanand, Shefalee Jain, Vidya Shivadas and Abhinandita Mathur. His learnings from the course: rethinking practices, investigating archives, public/community/collaborative art and curatorial investigations helped him to evolve his ideas & thoughts that created possibilities for being a versatile practitioner. Simultaneously, it helped him to reflect back upon his creative trajectory and to see his politics of practice through the lens of criticality.
Working through different forms and modes of practice also comes from his commitment to think through how the choice of the medium can determine the ways in which an artwork is received. From producing drawings, sketches, illustrations, sculptures, installations, photo montages/collages, zines, digital videos, live/video/photo performances, crafting poems, working in communities with texts, sound and objects.
He pushed his disciplinary boundaries in order to understand artistic practice in conversation with social sciences, history, natural sciences and other disciplines rather than see it as a stand-alone discipline in a typically modernist and formalist sense.
His research is an articulation and exploration of the body as a medium within the framework of contemporary art practices as well as in the history of performance art practice. It also examines whether the body qualifies as an 'archive' by looking back at some selected contribution/practices of Indian & global artists and by reflecting, locating & challenging/questioning his own contribution as a practitioner in the context of the same question(s). Intrigued from these enquiries, he sees the scope of possibilities a performing body produces via interaction with space, time/ephemerality, space, structures, context, material and other tangents through the mode of practice. He strives to examine the persisting prominence of the body (as a medium and as an archive) in an age where other infinite mediums are available & where ‘anti archival’ practices are seeping in. Apart from the academia, art world & activism, he has extended his creative reaches in spheres of fashion, commercial & parallel cinema and endeavours of government.
Guest Artist Eliseo Solís Mora - Venezuela
Eliseo Solís Mora was born in Upata (1978) and grew up in El Pao, Bolívar state, Venezuela. Traveled as an exchange student to the United States (1995-1996) through AFS Venezuela. He obtained the title of Bachelor of Visual Arts (Cum Laude) at the University of Los Andes in 2008 and a Teaching Component at the University of Carabobo in 2009. He has exhibited his work in different national shows in Venezuela and internationally in Spain, Germany, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, USA, France, Cuba, El Salvador, Italy, the Dominican Republic, India, Finland and Mexico. In 2011 he creates, directs, produces and organizes, together with Yacanna Martínez, Video En Acción to date has 5 editions.
Guest Artist Isa Fontbona - Spain
Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies and Sports, natural bodybuilder competitor, and a performance artist. Fontbona holds two Bachelor’s Degrees, in Philosophy and Art History, as well as a Master’s Degree in Humanity Research at the University of Girona, Spain. Currently, she is completing her dissertation on the artistic and gendered interventions enabled by female and trans bodybuilding practices. This project, more than a research, brought her to introduce herself to the performance art sphere.
Her artistic work merges different approaches into the same coin: her research and her sports career. She explores the malleability of the body through her own skin, using bodybuilding as a tool. Through this corporeal practice, she visualizes the social pressure exerted on the expectations of the bodies.
In some of her artworks, she challenges herself to the limits of the endurance of her body.
She tends to ask about her own identity in relation to her body through uncomfortable positions and an honest gaze.
In most of her pieces, despite locating the foundation in her personal investigation, she intends to establish certain resonances to the audience allowing them to be of the pieces. Putting herself in a vulnerable position, she likes to involve with the audience, give voice to them, letting them to weaving the meaning of the piece with freedom.
She has been developing pieces internationally since 2017, and she has been involved with different organizations such as: Experimental Action (Houston), Out of Site (Chicago) and Gresol Art (Spain), among others.
“By modifying myself corporeally, I lose myself, I look for myself and I question myself.
If my identity is my body, a body in constant modification, I do not know who I am...
I am not the evanescent body that looks sickly on stage; but neither the body out of the competition.
For me, it is very difficult to locate my identity in just only one version of it.
Maybe I am all of them, or none... maybe I am in motion.”
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Guest Artist Marisa Núñez Caminos - Argentina
Marisa Núñez Caminos was born in Nogayá, Argentina. She works in sculpture, ceramics, and performance art, and teaches Visual Arts. Since 1997 she coordinates and conducts workshops in ceramics, sculpture and mosaic making. Through her work she addresses indigenist, feminist and environmental issues. She is the recipient of various awards like the 3° Premio en Pintura en el VI Salón de Artistas Plásticos and the 3° Premio en Escultura en el I Salón Provincial de Verano de Pintura y Escultura among others.
Her work was selected in the Salón Anual de Artistas Plásticos de Entre Ríos in 2020, the Simposio de Escultores de San Martín (2019), and the Simposio Nacional de Escultura de Hasenkamp (2015 - 2014). Núñez has exhibited in solo exhibitions: "Verdades esenciales", at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Pedro Martínez de Paraná and in the installation "Homenaje a la mujer", in Casa de la Cultura de Nogoyá (2020). Her performances have been presented in the Convocatoria Performance Homenaje “Para todes tode” –Museo Chaco-Arg. 2021-beca “Pensar con los ojos” Bs.As. She has participated in programs of performance, video and Live Art, such as AUSTRAL, International Performance Art Festival Buenos Aires, 2021.
Guest Artist Aishwara Sultania - India
Aishwara Sultania participated in A Performance Art Show,”Off The 19th Milestone” sponsored by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (Bsnl). Dehradun, in 2004. An entirely experimental show based on interaction with the particular space and the audience. This was done using various mediums such as body, sound and light. Ultimately we saw how the meaning of a space changes in relation to particular objects and how the space changes the meaning of those objects. Our interaction with space revealed in the broader context how we interact in life.
Participated in collaborative installation with Artist R.V.Sindhu at School of Arts and Creative Education (SPACE). Delhi, 2004. We highlighted the view of nature from a particular window in a building. Materials used were ropes, cow dung and bamboo.
Co-curated and exhibited in a group show “Nuts?! Yes Nuts!” At the School of Performing Arts and Creative Education (SPACE).Delhi 2003. In this show, as a generation of upcoming artist we questioned the notion of artists being thought and considered as “Nuts” (crazy) and then drew similarities and made comparisons between crazy nuts and the ground nuts that grow in a shell and ultimately make a break through in the world. For the show we covered the entire ground space of the gallery with NUTS!!!
She was selected by Khoj International Artists’ Association for PEERS 2007 residency from 15 May to 15 June 2007, at the Khoj Studios. KHOJ International Artists’ Association is an artist led, alternative space for experimentation and international exchange based in India. Part of the global Triangle Arts Trust, KHOJ sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialogue in the visual arts.
Guest Artist Pratibha Sarkar - India
Pratibha Sarkar actively participating in workshops with various medium (charcoal,paper making,dogra casting,live mask making etc),she has been participated in International Island artists worshop Partage, Mauritius in 2007. ,
She is interested to conduct workshops on stress distress management through art (spiritual art, Art Therapy) with mask making and charcoal drawing for kids and adults and also for special Children’s Rehabilitation Center in india. Sarkar conducted workshops as master trainer teachers on classroom management for Fine Art. She is experienced in short films (Don Bosco, Chennai ) and performing arts drama at NSD, Sriram Center and JNU under the direction of Dr.Rajendran Srinivasan Delhi .
She received the Young Talent Artist Award in Modern Art and Painting by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India 2008.
"Hear from a charcoal woman, herself, who loves to romance the canvas, a dedicated lover, happy with her soulful and lust less love; an affair which gives her a Divine feeling and enlightens her in all possible way. She feels empowered and proud of her courtship and can relate herself to MEERA and her love for her the Divine. But the four walls of life (box of life) tend to confine her and rob her of all her happiness, her dreams get locked in the box, but now no more ... It is time to be free from all shackles and breathe in the free fresh air..."
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Guest Artist Verónica Peña - Spain/USA
VERONICA PEÑA is an interdisciplinary artist, and her work explores absence, separation, an
dthe search for harmony through Performance Art. Her practice is motivated by challenging existing preconceptions, generating new understandings, and eliminating barriers to human unity barriers such as migration politics, physical distance, pain, racism, machismo, culturalsegregation, and death.
Her performance installations combine underwater submersion, visua
lmetamorphosis, and audience participation to address global issues of migration, cross-culturaldialogue, fluidity, peaceful resistance, liberation, and women’s empowerment. Her work, stillness and confinement are a means to overcoming separation, and counteracting violence.
The prolonged submersion of the body is an act of resilience against imposed limitations; a return to the harmless state of the one’s still in the womb; a search for harmony. Submerged, the female body reveals strength, the immigrant defies distance and separation, the alive search for the absent.
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Guest Artist Claire Nichols - France/UK
Claire Nichols’ work emerges from a deep interest in materiality and collaboration. She creates sculptural ecosystems
which negotiate the codes and rhythms of chosen sites, and generate new performative and interdisciplinary encounters. Since 2017, she has been developing an ongoing body of work entitled Variations, through which she brings found and fabricated materials together in a continuous process of making and remaking.
Claire is attracted to materials that are discarded, and have a sense of being caught in a temporal loop between abandonment and future potential. These materials include gravel, flour, bricks, light, wood, metals,
mirrored glass and fishing nets. Each material carries a sense of its past life and function, but also holds an other-worldly quality in its visual and auditory tactility. Many of these materials do not have one set form: they
are piles of rubble or flour that can be dispersed, fishing nets that can be deformed, mirrors holding transitory reflections and lights that can create temporary shadows. They offer the possibility of an evolving relationship;
moveable graphic and geometric configurations that open up an abstract space of possibility.
Operating more like organisms than static installations, the resulting Variations are living systems that are open
to changes of structure, material and balance. In each iteration, Claire creates an evolving sculptural ‘scene’ where the live, improvised moment of performance becomes a ritualistic meeting point for sculpture, music and
movement.
Guest Artist M.U.R.T.A Azul - Chile
I am Kareen but I work under the name M.U.R.T.A in my creations, I am by
profession an architect and in eternal training a dancer. I am the director of
my own dance company Artemisa, I work as an independent architect and I
am constantly searching for new languages of expression, such as
performance.
I have participated in several festivals and exhibitions in my
country, Chile and different countries. My performance work uses natural and built spaces as a setting and I like to play with the poetics of aesthetics and discourse.
The beauty of the terrible.
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Guest Artist Ender Rodriguez - Venezuela
Performance is the bodily, hybrid and symbolic action through which I detonate my being and my soul in a series of totalizing or holistic actions, in addition to other aesthetic and extra-aesthetic expressions that I carry out.
I basically carry out two types of performances, some based on neo-rituals, so to speak, very personal, intimate, liberating and restoring balance or proto-energetic; but others are socio-performances in the sense of working in the social context, with people and communities where I believe it could generate an action of transformation, critical reflection, irony or possible questioning about society, art or nature. The insistence on rethinking my own neo-rituals has in part been marked by having lived four years in the Venezuelan Amazon between 1992 to 1996.
I assume the need to interweave performances, social work or horizontal grassroots activism, artivism, research, pedagogies, cultural circuits, critics, communities, NGOs and other possibilities; All of this would re-connect all the facets between art and life sometimes assumed since separations and divorces.
I have worked partly from the border issue between Venezuela and Colombia and on the other hand neo-rituals and very particular-spiritual but not religious mantras. Currently, I am also working on the possibility of continuing to act and seek that people with rich and "great content and life narratives" generate their, let's say, instinctive actions or in the style of collaborative work (context art).
Performance, as well as art in my case, has "saved" my life.
Activist humanism in NGOs has allowed me to forget my own traumas and violent structural conflicts to try to bring transformation around me and in communities as social and karmatic re-compositions (vibrational or energetic). Renaissance is performative in turn, and it is more than aesthetic; and it is holistically self-transforming and transformative.
Guest Artist S. M. Reyad - Bangladesh
S. M. Reyad is Independent Visual Artist based in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He was born (1990) in a village near the city of Chittagong and raised the neighboring environment.
The environment and the people around him are the main issues of
his work. Reyad completes his post-graduation in Drawing and paintings at
Institute of Fine Arts, University of Chittagong. After his BFA, he started
practicing Performance, Installation and Video as well Drawing, Painting and
Photography. He has worked with Documentary, short & independent film as a
Cinematographer.
Reyad joined National art exhibition Bangladesh, Young art exhibition, Crack
International Art Camp, Sculpture network, Cheragi art show, Art Fest 2020,
Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (kipaf) among others and this year
invited for artist Residencies from French, Ghana, India and Nepal as a
participating artist.
He coordinated Chittagong Open ART Biennale (COAB) 2019, as co-organizer
Guest Artist Mahima Bhayana - India
Manifesto
My art is an array of promiscuous questions on how I experience my intimate truth within and without. Through my eyes, my mind, my ears and my heart ,
I zoom In and I zoom Out.
A ripple effect of patriarchy has been a major obstruction in my expression and experience.
Painting, art and solidarity is my compass to navigate my way out.
My approach being of intersection-ally looking, questioning, comprehending and feeling at my life and the world around me, through a new lense of feminism.
I explore what is beyond the challenge and confrontation of patriarchal stereotypes.
What is there beyond the celebration and the summit ?
What is beyond when everything is black ?
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Guest Artist Soufïa Bensaïd - Tunesia
Her art practice is interdisciplinary. It uses what comes to it to achieve a research, face a question, encounter what is here. To receive the present. It is at the intersection of performance art, site specific action, installation, writing, drawing, movement, relational esthetic, participatory work. Being in relation/in relationship-to, attentive-to, present-with is at the foundation of her work. The relationship between oneself and one other offers a field of presence, a field of consciousness that facilitates transmissions. As such, she is interested in the way relationships reflect our perception of the world while offering opportunities for transformation. Through the performance, installation and art pieces she offers experiences that question beliefs and reference systems.
Guest Artist Raphael Couto - Brazil
Raphael Couto is an artist, professor and researcher. Master Degree in Contemporary Art.
Investigates the relationships between body/flash and image, producing performances, videos, photography, objects and texts.
Participates in festivals and exhibitions in Brazil and other countries. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Guest Artist Dhannjay Kumar - India
Dhannjay is a Visual Artist working with a multidisciplinary approach based in Delhi and Bihar and roaming around. He was born in 1990 in a joint farmer family. He graduated from a government school of Bihar (India). After 10th he has worked as a hoarding painter with some of local painter in Patna (Bihar) and Jharkhand. He and his family were also staying at Patna & nowadays also. In-between sometimes he has doing farming on his farms at village side. He joined Patna Art College in 2008. Those days he has worked as a painter for several schools in Patna. He finished his BFA in 2013 and then came to Delhi for MFA. He did his MFA from Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi in 2015.
Dhannjay has worked at "kanoria centre for art" Ahmadabad (Gujarat) as a fellow artist. he has attended several residencies and camps including Two months-long residencies in china 2018, 11th crack international residency Bangladesh 2017, National Dokara art camp Lucknow 2017, 7th episode of “URONTO” Residential Art Exchange Program at Bangladesh 2017, residency at Nine Fish Art Gallery at Mumbai 2017, Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (KIPAF)2017-18 etc. He has exhibited his works in several art galleries in the country.
Along with his skilled training in sculpture and expertise in articulating space and body, Dhannjay has a keen interest in performance and other ephemeral forms. He is always open for new discursive spaces. He is curious and exploring the fields of performance art and in the matter of how the body operates in a certain space and time.
He always tries to explore the different possibility of his visual approach and improve his art language. And he tries to engage himself with different types of the medium of art.
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Guest Artist Marilyn Arsem - USA
"I consider performance art as both a context and a process. In a dialogue with materials, physical space, time, and often other people, I engage in embodied thinking, employing all my senses. I use performance to ask questions, challenge my assumptions, examine alternate realities, and experiment with processes whose outcomes I can’t always predict. It is a practice that remains anchored in the here and now, keeping me grounded in the limits of my body and the reality of time, reminding me always that nothing remains."
Arsem has been creating and performing live events for more than forty years, and has presented her work in thirty countries around the globe. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, she also teaches performance art workshops internationally.
Many of her works are durational in nature, minimal in actions and materials, and have been created in response to specific sites, engaging with their history, use, or politics. More recent works have focused on examining our experience of time. Sites have included a former Cold War missile base in the United States, a 15th century Turkish bath in North Macedonia, an aluminum factory in Argentina, the grounds of an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium in Poland, the site of the Spanish landing in the Philippines, and a deserted Russian mining outpost in the Arctic Circle.
Arsem established one of the most extensive programs internationally in visually-based performance art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), where she taught for 27 years.
In 1975 she founded an interdisciplinary collaborative of artists, incorporating in 1980 as Mobius, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt, artist-run organization, committed to experimentation. Over its 40+ year history, Mobius has presented the work of thousands of artists.
A book on her work, Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem, edited by Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless, was recently published by Intellect Books of the UK.
Guest Artist Pascale Ciapp - France
Pascale Ciapp is an action art artist. She practices performance art in its initial function, a critical function : artistic, societal, reflexive criticism. She explores behaviours that become her subjects of questioning and creates her own visual language in the form of actions, between human and aesthetic experience, in which she gets possession of these behaviours to transform them: her body in action, body-subject/body-object/body-medium/body-area, enters interacting with the space in which she performs.
The identity, the memory, the confinement, the transfiguration, the status of the body and particularly that of women in our society, the private-public border are recurring themes in her art work. The context and the duration of its performance works are also an integral part of its research when she intervenes as well as the position/place/posture of the viewer particularly when the assistance is convocated.
Pascale Ciapp is born in 1963, she has been exploring the art of action since the mid-90s after having experienced photography. She lives and works in Loupian (34) France where she created at home, in 2006, a place dedicated to contemporary art where she regularly hosts artists in residence.
She performs regularly in France and abroad, both in renowned galleries and festivals and as in alternative venues from the moment the place or context of experience interest her.
Guest Artist Ilka Theurich - Germany
Re-charge or even stronger POWER UP happens when I am present in something. Energy is growing when I give my energy at the same time into a certain moment. The German Philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer called it „Dabeisein“. (Dabeisein). Being present does not simply mean being there along with something else that is there at the same time. To be present means to participate. If someone was present at something, he knows all about how it really was. It is only in a derived sense that presence at something means also a kind of subjective act, that of paying attention to something (Bei-der-Sache-sein).“
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1960/2010. p. 129.
Ilka Theurich has exhibited and performed in a variety of countries and contexts. She works as an artist, coach, curator, and educator of a broad range of projects, including large-scale events, intimate performances, publications and workshops. Her diverse work includes in-situ installations, video/sound installations, performances, drawings and participatory projects in public space – always LIVE.
Her artistic work evolves around questions of the performative context of space, horizontal democracy, critical spatial practice and spatial politics. She is interested in the deployment of her social-poetical-performance-practice as a methodology in the field of critical spatial practice. She collaboratively works and consults on conceptualizing and implementing performance art based research on urban planning and architectur.
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Guest Artist Diniz Sanchez - Portugal
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Diniz Sanchez studied dance and choreography in the Superior School of Dance and Forum Dança (Lisbon) and Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier (France). Dancer/performer for several companies in Portugal, France, Belgium and India since 1994, he started creating his own work spanning dance, theatre, video, singing, performance art.... Creator and director for Lua Company since its creation in 2004.
Diniz has presented pieces in Portugal, Spain, France, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Since 2006 he has been developing the character Spicy Tutuboy based on whom he has done several performances questioning identity, gender, sexualities, nationalisms, and others.
Since 2007 he started working in the Opera world, mostly collaborating with Spanish director Emilio Sagi, creating more than a dozen operas and musical theatre productions, as choreographer and assistant director, in Theatres around the world (Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, United States of America, Brazil...).
He has also started doing his own stagings for opera and musical theatre, being the responsable for the first presentation in India of Menotti's opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors", for the Lyric Ensemble of Delhi.
After several years in and out of India, he has settled in Kerala, South of India, where at the same time that he continues to work in his projects for opera, dance and gender performance (with Spicy Tutu-boy), he researches on Kerala performing art forms.
Guest Artist - B. Ajay Sharma - India
Idea
My practice evolves around the idea of Space and Historicity, and the process to create the performative aspect of rituals from daily life, inspiration and infielder, since curating In_process and organising Live Art Events also provides the opportunity to explore the possibility of medium during the Covid 19.
It added and created several new norms of performance art to come up with new approaches towards body gesture, yet my exploration seeks new methods of work.
I can now more relate to the space and how space is being created differently with other approaches in performance according to a geo-political and socio-political approach as well as a formalistic approach towards the medium in performance art and possible new kinesthetics after
Covid 19.
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Guest Artist - Javier Seco Goni - Spain
BIOGRAFÍA: Autor Multidisciplinar. Amplia trayectoria expositiva nacional e internacional. Mantiene un estrecho vínculo, desde sus orígenes con la Palabra, la Poesía Visual y el Poema Objeto. Elabora, asimismo, Acciones, Performances e Instalaciones. Pertenece a los colectivos artísticos LUZ Y CIA y SILENCIO ACÚSTICO Ha colaborado con Editoriales y Publicaciones (Crocetti Editore, Diógenes Internacional, La Lata, La Mas Bella, Veneno, LUPI, ...) y comisariado diferentes muestras de Poesía Experimental y MailArt. Está representado en varias Antologías de Poesía Visual.
Su trabajo forma parte de numerosos museos y colecciones particulares en Europa y América.
Sus preocupaciones medioambientales y la denuncia irónica se manifiestan como constante en sus piezas. Últimamente comienza a trabajar con luz.
MUSEOS Y COLECCIONES (selecc)
ESPACIO PORTALES. LA PAZ .BOLIVIA
MUSEUM OF TEMPORARY ART. TUMBINGEN. ALEMANIA
MUSEO DE TOKYO. JAPON
FUNDACION PAIDEIA. MADRID
COLECCIÓN ARTEGUIA. MADRID
ESCUELA DE ARTE .GRANADA
COLECCIÓN COLEGIO DE ESPAÑA. PARIS
MUSEO ARTIUM. VITORIA
Está asimismo representado en diferentes colecciones particulares en Europa y América.
Guest Artist - Cai Qing - Singapore
"It can be predicted that in the future, COVID-19 will be regarded as a watershed in many aspects of our life. People's existence attitude and psychological attitude will be alienated. The concept of human community with a shared future will collapse. The two worlds before and after COVID-19 are totally different, and the majestic task of reshaping the world order will begin."
Cai Qing (Qing Sonnenberg) has been living and working as an independent artist in Europe and New York since 1989.
In September 2007 he relocated to Singapore.
As a contemporary artist, he uses performance, installation, video and pictures to express his ideas. The concept in most of his art is the “observer” and “observed”, focusing on people of various backgrounds in different societies.
He enjoys the interaction with different people and his works find inspiration in many of their life stories.
Cai Qing has also curated several important art shows.
In 1998 he has co-curated China’s first contemporary art exhibition in a private space, “Trace of Existence”, and recently, in 2008, he curated “Construction before Destruction”, the last performance show in Sifo Art Village, Henan province, before its modernisation by local officials.
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Guest Artist - Efat Rozowana Reya - Bangladesh
In my art practice, I always look upon the error which did happen in my own life or society.. I believe a human being can not grow up without any miscalculations in their journey. I usually consider more time to understand social infrastructures and the unfairness happoing to people around me. As a human being we undergo a series of compromises and it is not always easy to achieve.
By practice what one has found can be true in theory. I use different characters to express my own experience of feelings, my existence and the statement that there are different levels of uncertainty. Literally, a white piece of paper gets its life by many lines which may represent the different experiences of human life.
Thus the paper is seen as a metaphor. Some lines can be erased but in effect, the line keeps a deep impression on the blank surface. Unavoidable this remains until the end of life.
Recently the people of human society experience loneliness, and its seems caring for each other became an exception, existentially there is a need for individual concerns instead of paying attention to the surrounding environment.
Guest Artist - Mahmoud Maktabi - Iran
I am interested in blending my body in the environment physically and using the human body as part of the work.
The unlimited investigation in the environment deepens as you get more absorbed in nature and as you search more.
The placement of my body as part of the work simultaneously learns from its surroundings and at the same time adds to its conceptually. My work examines social and traditional concepts which vary in each work.
To me life is an opportunity to discover the concept of beauty that constantly attracts me toward the source and nature of things. My confrontation to the environment and its infinite immensity has shown me a way to observe this beauty from a different way. What allows me to keep going in my work is the process to explore and to create using my physical self.
Guest Artist - Natalie Loveless - Canada
Natalie Loveless is a Canadian conceptual and performance artist, curator, and Associate Professor, Contemporary Art and Theory, in the Department of Art and Design of the University of Alberta, located in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) on Treaty Six territory where she is also director of the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory (www.researchcreation.ca) and co-leads the Faculty of Arts’ Signature Area in Research-Creation.
Loveless received her MFA in performance art under the training of Marilyn Arsem at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2004), and her PhD in the History of Consciousness under Donna Haraway at the University of California, Santa Cruz (2010).
Her dialogic and instruction-based wall-drawing installations, performance actions, and video works have been presented in festivals, galleries and artist-run centers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
Curatorial projects include Participatory Dissent (Western Front/LIVE Biennial, Vancouver, 2008), Intervene, Interrupt: Rethinking Art as Social Practice (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008), New Maternalisms (Mercer Union/FADO, Toronto, 2012), New Maternalisms- Chile (MNBA and MAC, Santiago, 2014), New Maternalisms Redux (FAB Gallery, Edmonton, 2016; www.newmaternalisms.com), and ImmuneNations (United Nations, Geneva, 2018 www.immunenations.com/).
For more information, please see: www.loveless.ca
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Guest Artist - Nenad Bogdanović - Serbia
My art work stretches from the mid seventies of last century, initially practicing classical forms of artistic expression (drawing, painting) and eightieth meeting of the mail art network. Mail art shows me the direction from the center of the visual and aesthetic perception in the art to conceptual and ethical position. Soon, 1980, beginning with the artistic performances and live action. At first I experiment, explore and examine the media's performance,
I play and sometimes mock the process.. Later, in my project at Man Gallery, I place myself in the role of the gallery. In a broader context, examine my body in relation to space, time, public...
And in my other performance projects,I want to point to the eternal in the transitory existence of people in historical and spiritual, general terms. There is the desire to discover a consequence of the economic impact on artistic creativity from traditional art works to new media.
Born in 1955 in Odzaci, Serbia (Ex Yugoslavia). He is engaged in multimedia art, photography, xerox art, video, installation art, performance and art actions.
His appearance at the beginning of the eighties in the international art network, he marked an post avant-garde period of Yugoslav art and his art work has been recognized and accepted internationally.
Freelance visual and performance artist, publisher and curator. Member of art societies of Vojvodina (SULUV) and Serbia (ULUS). Curator of various international art projects and exhibitions since 1980. In 1998 he founded of Multimedial Art Studio and MAS Gallery in Odzaci, Serbia. Organiser and curator of International Multimedial Art Festival - IMAF (since 1998, dedicated to performance art).
He is the editor and owner of MAS Gallery in Odzaci since 1998.
Participated in group exhibitions since 1975 year, in more than 500 exhibitions in more than forty countries in the world. Since 1980 Nenad realized his art performances and art actions on many international festivals worldwide France: 1994, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014, Italy: 1995, 2003, 2004, 2011 & 2015, Slovakia: 1996, Germany: 1996 & 2017, Japan: 1997, 2008 & 2020, Romania: 1998, Poland: 1999, 2007, 2010, 2012 & 2013, Hungary: 2001 & 2011, Belarus: 2001, United Kingdom: 2004 & 2010, Northern Ireland: 2004 & 2011, Switzerland: 2004, USA: 2005, Canada: 2006 & 2008, Croatia: 2015 & 2019, Turkey: 2007, Israel: 2007, China: 2015, Austria: 2016, Czech Republic: 2016 & 2017, Hong Kong: 2016, Spain: 2016 & 2018, Bulgaria: 2018, Argentina: 2019, Uruguay: 2019 and many times from 1980 in Serbia.
From 1993 Nenad starts working on the art project called "Man Gallery" that lasted 15 years.
Realised art tours with Man Gallery project in France 1994, Italy 1995, Germany 1996, Japan 1997 and Switzerland 2004. In 2003 year realised two art performances on 50th International Biennial of Venice-Italy (in the International Art Project: Brain Academy Apartment).
More about the artist: www.bogdanovicnenad.weebly.com
Guest Artist - Yusuf Durodula - Nigeria
As a multidisciplinary communicator and dynamic artist, my interest lies in my ability to infuse different art forms into my performance, thus projecting issues that surround human existence while also exploring issues bordering on environmental pollution, echo system, socio-political imbalance, festivities, culture and sensitization.
My practice seeks to engage and spur minds towards a state of consciousness.
I employ African symbols and draw inspiration from Yoruba cosmology (language, philosophy, adages, oral tradition, and moral expression). These include the culture of my immediate environment, oftentimes projected through different art forms.
Based on my belief that art has a strong connection to our sustainability, I use my body as a mobile object in public spaces in order to bring the healing power of art to the consciousness of the populace.
My penchant for pattern construction and drawing plays a prominent role in the creative process of my performances often generated from both secular and sacred objects.
My work serves as a requisite to stimulating discourses on our political and social challenges that threaten our collective reality. It also serves as the voice of the voiceless within the community.
Yusuf Durodola is a Lagos-based multimedia Nigerian artist. His creative journey started at the age of five when his pattern construction was harnessed by his biological father who is a fashion designer. Durodola was encouraged by his brother to learn graphics at the age of eight.
In pursuit of calligraphic skill, he attended an Islamic institution. He later obtained a Nigeria Certificate in Education from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka, Lagos, majoring in Painting and Graphics. He proceeded to the University of Lagos where he obtained a degree in Visual Arts.
Yusuf is a prolific and versatile painter, graphic designer, art instructor, art administrator, calligrapher, experimentalist, and video/performance artist. He has participated in over 40 group and two solo art exhibitions.
He has also taken part in a residency programme, workshops, seminars, solo and group performances. His works are displayed in local and international private spaces and galleries.
Yusuf belongs to many art organizations, has chaired and served as a resource person, moderator and facilitator for many art shows. He has also served as a creative director for many art projects. He is a Guinness World Record Achiever (Largest Painting by Number) for Ecole de dessin, Lagos, Nigeria and won several awards to his credit.
Since 2006 till date, he has worked as an art educator, especially for teenagers at different levels.
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Guest Artist - Andrea Aguia - Columbia
She is interested in performance (teaching, archiving, or live), as an artistic manifestation that provokes encounters, claiming a "concrete other", the presence of the body and spoken language as vehicles of the stories that have taken place with others, in everyday situations.
Philosopher from the University of Los Andes, Master in Plastic and Visual Arts from the National University of Colombia and in Sciences of culture and religions of the University of Rome Studi Roma Tre.
She has participated in both marginal and non-marginal art events since 1998 at the Open House Festival, Universidad ASAB, Bogotá with the group of María Teresa Hincapié. Since then she has been part of performance events in Varasanta, Mapa Theatro, Perfo Artnet, La Otra from the Valenzuela Gallery and Klenner, ArtBo Bogotá International Art Fair, “Sunday Matinés” of the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá, Performance Festival of the Teatro Acto Latino , III Dance Festival in the City, Pereira Art Museum, among others.
At an international level, had participated in “Towards an Art of the Meeting of Performance and Action Art” in Buenos Aires Argentina (2009), in the Hemi GSI Convergence “Public and Private spaces in Urban Interventions” (2013), IV Festival of Performance and Action Foundations in Cochabamba Bolivia (2016), VII International Video Art Festival of Camagüey (2017) in Cuba, Atelier Performance # 14 Studio of Ilka Teurich in Hannover Germany (2018), III Genoa Biennial in Italy (2019). She’s exhibited in Ecuador, Hungary, France, Spain, Bolivia, Mexico, United States, Cuba, Japan, Germany, Argentina and Colombia and events on-line.
Guest Artist - Rajani Bairiganjan - India
WHO AM I STRANGE WOMAN TO YOU.
Influenced by Bracha l Ettinger’s ‘matrixial’ and my routine encounters with strangers in the city.
Strangeness of materials and Woman’s body : in collaboration with Inder Salim on possibilities of making performance art images/photographs.
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Guest Artist - Chaturi Nissansala - Sri Lanka
Her parameter of interest is an engagement to understand the role of an individual oscillating within the layers of the society. Socio political enigmas, histories of detest boundaries laid upon that make structures of culture, society.
Civilizations that exist with these layers and their predominance. Living within the region of South Asia understanding these dichotomies within the society and approaching them through visual engagements - tends to exist as the locus of my work.
The role of the marginal and their coexistence; approaching them and their experiences, voices build the base to each work.
Each work developed through concurrent research materials collected through personal experience, interviews and archaic material of the subjectivity. The purpose is to revoke an individual's perspective of the subjective and create an attempt to allow viewers to enter into the space of these individuals' lives. There is a presence of identity, constantly questioned and exists as an abstract presence.
Carrying the discipline of drawings and painting allows it to transcend itself, creating a habitat of an individual space that the viewers are tend to engage within.
The presence of the space and its existence with the human presence and the space of the body leads into a performance and performativity engagement within the work.
Moulding the performativity aspects and its relational aesthetics with space and archaic material has been a new found subjective interest.
In search of volatile contours in ritualistic performative practices of Sri Lanka.
Guest Artist - Murari Jha - India
My work explores the limits of the human body and its experience, the points where it’s cognitive, orientational, sensory and communicative faculties start to over perform or malfunction.
Subjected to extended and unimaginable trauma, the body becomes disconnected from its own sensorium and its
affects, and starts performing in an erratic or hysterical way.
It is moments of cognitive or performative dissonance such as these, when a broken body registers a wild excess of affect or movement –
uncontrollable laughter or an involuntary physical response – that I am interested in exploring through my transmedia works.
To illustrate these failures or breakdowns of body language under stress,
I have summarized below episodes from two Indian short stories that have managed to stay with me:
The first is from the celebrated writer Premchand’sshort story called ‘Kafan’ where an impoverished lower-caste father-son duo toil hard to arrange money to pay for the funeral of the son’s wife and they
end up spending the money in getting drunk and celebrating.
The second is an episode from Manto’s story Khol Do’ where the protagonist ‘Sakina’ is raped on a train multiple times to the point where she responds to the examining doctor’s command for opening the window by taking off her clothes.
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Guest Artist - Martine Viale - France
Based in action art, Viale’s work is contextual and Site-specific and involves almost entirely furtive actions mainly in the public space.
Concerned with finding different ways of rethinking her practice, she tries to allow each moment to become an opportunity to connect and to integrate daily strategies into artistic strategies and vice versa.
Through actions and non-actions, she often play with the concept of interchangeability, sometimes even of ambiguity of identity between the artist and passersby and/or audience, and thus challenge this imaginary line between performance and non-performance space.
In this subtle process, she tries to redirect the attention and slightly shift the usual course of things so as to emphasize the notions of interval spaces, time and the ordinary.
Guest Artist - Jeetin Rangher - India
My works are more on self-healing, works are about transformation and change through sharing and connecting.
It’s meant to be raw and subtle; intense and beautiful.
I want to shake people by shaking myself. I believe the body is the most nostalgic element, the most vivid, vital, dynamic, powerful, and beautiful, one where the past, present and future coexist, where life and death make a synthesis, where I can find my fears and hopes, my memories and most importantly my strength, drive, and spirit.
Jeetin Rangher is a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary artist and activist. With an education in painting and design, his interest in the arts is nurtured by his sensitivity to the surrounding, nature, and the social environment.
He initiated the Green World Art Festival in November 2010 which continued in 2011 and 2012. He has been working with different communities in conflict zones in Kashmir (India) as a part of 'Healing Hands - Art Intervention in Conflict Zones'.
His performances are responses and critical reflections on our social, cultural, and political behavior.
The artist has been intensively involved with various communities and kids with special needs, conducting workshops for/with them. His project Art Adda (under IFA’s project 560) was an intervention in found space in a heavily populated and cosmopolitan Bangalore.
His ongoing project Soch Studio is an open studio based in Bangalore that invites artists to act, research, and react to the contemporary art scene, to meet for discussions, exhibit their work and perform, or just catch up over a cup of tea and discuss art and in addition to offering short-term residency programs.
More recently, he has focused on creating site-specific performances for various platforms in South Asia such as Serendipity Arts Festival, Colomboscope, Jaipur Art Summit to name but a few.
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Guest Artist - Dinesh Salonki - India
Dinesh has done his Bachelor's qualification from Santiniketan Kala Bhavan and Master MSU Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts. He is a Visual Practitioner. He believes that no artist has a language. Likewise believes that the practicing artist has neither a solitary medium nor a solitary philosophy. He has taken an part in Jaipur Art Summit. The title of my work "Mind Without Fear" .
Additionally he did a gathering show Curintia at MSU Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts.He did a body workshop with Nikhil Chopra. The workshop was about Performance art and how the body draws in itself in existence.
His thesis subject of graduate degree was "Understanding the performativity". Under this subject, he researched on performativity where performativity conduct started i.e. Dadaism. And gradually over the time it advanced to the execution craftsmanship. In the middle of performativity likewise created in open theater, experimental theater and Bauhaus Performing Arts. Today performativity is making changes in itself.
I have likewise done my very own few tasks called Pratidhwani. During this venture, I utilized an old design with some instrumental musicians and artists without any formal apparatuses, so that after some time the group accumulated there, and they additionally utilized that entire architectureto produce music.
Utilizing performativity conduct of the people,I actuated the engineering.
A whole world which is his only and runs on his desire. Wherever he does, he is also the reason, and he is also the doer. This friendly place where everyone wants to be who wishes, feelings can be fulfilled. But there is also a defect in the place, it is a defect that when man does not have complete control over his own brain, then he also suffers many sufferings at this place when man dreams or is in such a state.
Guest Artist - Angel Alado - Mexico
My artist name is Angel Alado, was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. I studied Media in Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, Mexico City.In my work, there always is a process of transformation which comes to life and merges through the dialogue that is being established between the objects I use – and respect as energy donors - , and my own body as a latent mantra, impregnated by the joy of the game, the exploration, the sensitivity and the multiple possibilities that it represents.
My creative proposal radicates in The Action itself as fundamental part of every single one of my pieces, revealing itself in the plasticity and ambiguity, to be faced from distinct borders and personal experiences. It is here where the metamorphosis appears as the most beautiful outcome of the exploration, the opening, acceptance and freedom of us who participate in the game of life of the action.
I am co-founder of La Sonora Performancera, a contemporary performance collective, the aim of the project is building a platform for self-generating spaces, creation, exploration and dissemination of Action Art in the city of Oaxaca.
I have been fortunate to share my personal creative process in performance art in Brazil, India, Bolivia, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Grecia, Mexico. Performance Art Videos have been shown in Peru, Colombia, USA, India and Argentina.
I believe in learning from methodologies from the masters so I have taken studies with teachers as Dagmar I. Glausnitzer Smith, Tadashi Endo, Katnira Bello, César Martínez, Manuel Vason, Maritea Dahelin, Franceso Kiais, Santiago Cao, Andreas Pashias, Yury Forero, Alezandra Zierle, Paul Carter, Amanda Ruiz, Myriam Beutelspacher and others.
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Guest Artist - anna.laclaque - Germany
anna.laclaque aims at understanding the position of the individual in the real world and its tension between self-determination and isolation.
By using her own body and voice she visually and acoustically evokes various representations of the self. The confrontation of these selfs infers a fragile holistic picture of a fluctuating and fugitive personality.
The artwork represents an in vain attempt to capture the own personality from the variety of its different aspects.
The artist is a representative for any human and becomes an object of projection for the spectator.
anna.laclaque is educated as opera singer, pianist, and painter. As opera singer, she performed world premieres in leading opera houses (annette-stricker.de). Contemporary music inspired her to vocal improvisation with live-electronics to develop her individual sound-repertoire. In her current artworks (laclaque.org),
She refers to her background in visual arts and classical music to create multi-media room installations still evoking associations from her theatre-experience. Each installation is specifically adapted to the given settings where she is invited to perform.
The artist is a representative for any human and becomes an object of projection for the spectator.