III Venice International Performance Art Week

Con il titolo Fragile Body – Material Body (Corpo Fragile – Corpo Materiale), questa terza edizione rappresenta il capitolo conclusivo della trilogia dedicata al ‘corpo’, inteso come strumento e matrice di creazione e conoscenza, pur nella sua fragilità e vulnerabilità.

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A seguito delle prime due edizioni "Hybrid Body – Poetic Body (Corpo Ibrido – Corpo Poetico)" e "Ritual Body – Political Body (Corpo Rituale – Corpo Politico)" tenutesi rispettivamente a dicembre 2012 e 2014, la III VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK avrà luogo a Palazzo Mora e Palazzo Michiel, sedi dell’European Cultural Centre di Venezia, dal 10 al 17 dicembre 2016. Con il titolo Fragile Body - Material Body (Corpo Fragile - Corpo Materiale), questa terza edizione rappresenta il capitolo conclusivo della trilogia dedicata al ‘corpo’, inteso come strumento e matrice di creazione e conoscenza, pur nella sua fragilità e vulnerabilità.

Aperta al pubblico e a ingresso libero, la III VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK propone un ampio programma di performance dal vivo, conferenze, una sezione storico espositiva, installazioni e documentazioni fotografiche e video. Il progetto prevede la partecipazione di oltre ottanta artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo, emergenti e pionieri della scena internazionale.

La III VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK desidera contribuire alla scena artistica di Venezia, già di per sé rinomata, con un progetto internazionale esclusivamente dedicato alla performance.

The 3rd VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK “Fragile Body - Material Body”
European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Strada Nova, 3659, Venice, Italy, 10 - 17 December 2016

The III VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK will take place at Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Michiel in Venice, December 10-17, 2016 under the focus Fragile Body – Material Body. It concludes the trilogy project following the first two editions Hybrid Body – Poetic Body and Ritual Body – Political Body that took place in December 2012 (Palazzo Bembo), and in December 2014 (Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Michiel).
The live art exhibition project dedicated to contemporary performance art showcases in its third edition works of over 80 international performance artists from around the globe, some of which are presented in cooperation with prestigious cultural institutions and foundations. Pioneers of this art discipline exhibit and perform alongside established and emerging artists, reflecting influences and current tendencies in the field.
The project consists of an exhibition of performance installations, photographic and video documentation as well as vibrant program of live performances, talks, screenings and meetings with the participating artists, researchers and curators.
For this third edition with the focus Fragile Body – Material Body, the works present physical, mental and spiritual bodies as primary material of artistic expression, aiming to investigate a wide range of concepts pertinent to the art forms of performance art, Live art and Body Art, such as: authenticity, living entities and their relations towards one another; fragility and vulnerability of the physical body and of social relationships; mental and spiritual states rendered through liminal corporeal manifestation; as well as encouraging questions around the post-organic transformations and mutations to which we subject the human body.
The presence of human beings in this world is always more than a temporary condition: the communication that can be triggered between artists and the audience is an essential element. The topics addressed during the week will relate to the need to look at social relations and the lives of individuals with greater care.
Due to the specificity of this edition’s theme Fragile Body – Material Body, the live performances and works on display will also seek to provide reflection and further considerations on how to find meaningful mechanisms to foster positive change through contemporary culture and art in a vital way.
The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK wishes to enrich the highly renowned art scene in Venice with the audacious art form of performance art.

ARTISTS OF HONOUR (LIVE | EXHIBITION | PRESENTATION)
Marilyn Arsem, Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca, Janusz Bałdyga, Giovanni Fontana, Franko B, Antonio Manuel, ORLAN, Stelarc.

EXHIBITION
Marina Abramović, Dimitris Alithinos, John Baldessari, Lisa Bufano, John Cage & Klaus vom Bruch, Sophie Calle, Cassils, Panos Charalambous, Thanassis Chondros/Alexandra Katsiani, Helen Cole, Coco Fusco & Paula Heredia, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ria Hartley, Mona Hatoum, Irwin, Maria Karavela, Arrigo Lora Totino, Tran Luong, Ato Malinda, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman & Nam June Paik, Andrea Morucchio, Otto Mühl & Hermann Nitsch, Bruce Nauman, OHO Group, Yoko Ono, Leda Papaconstantìnou, Mike Parr, Douglas Quin & Lorne Covington, Pipilotti Rist, Lerato Shadi, Demetrio Stratos, Matej Stupica & Lenka Đorojević, Theodoros,sculptor, Katerina Thomadaki/Maria Klonaris, Bill Viola, Andy Warhol & Jørgen Leth, Lawrence Weiner, Jud Yalkut, Mary Zygouri | ART WEEK Fringe.

LIVE PROGRAM
Evangelia Basdekis, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Kris Canavan, Samanta Cinquini & Luca Nava, Alexander Del Re, Jeannette Ehlers, Nicola Fornoni, Christina Georgiou, Gim Gwang Cheol, gyrl grip, Jeff Huckleberry, Casey Jenkins, Anna Kosarewska, KörperSchafftKlang, Kyrahm & Julius Kaiser, Sara Kostić, jamie lewis hadley, Andrea Marcaccio, Noé Martínez & María Sosa, James McAllister, Johann Merrich, Mladen Miljanović, Martin O'Brien, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, Alexandros Plomaritis, Alicia Radage, Preach R Sun, Ivana Ranisavljević, Mauro Sambo, Marcel Sparmann, Suka Off, Susanne Weins & Sašo Vollmaier | ART WEEK Fringe.

CO-CURATORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Patrizio Peterlini & Luigi Bonotto (Fondazione Bonotto), Jessica Berlanga-Taylor (Fundacion Alumnos47), Chiara Cartuccia & Celeste Ricci (EX NUNC), Massimo Premuda & Maria Campitelli (Gruppo 78/DoubleRoom), Aurora Fonda (Galleria A+A), Marta Jovanovic & Milica Pekić (Galerija G12 HUB), Francesco Kiais (G.A.P. Gathering Around Performance), Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency), Jill McDermid (Grace Exhibition Space), Prem Sarjo & Alexander Del Re (Ejercicios Mosqueto/PerfoLink), Leisa Shelton (Fragment 31), Christian Lund & Kasper Bech Dyg (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | Louisiana Channel), Francesca Carol Rolla.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR CULTURAL CONSULTING
Electronic Arts Intermix (New York), LIMA (Amsterdam), Video Data Bank (Chicago), Re:Voir (Paris).

A PROJECT BY VestAndPage (Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes)

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is the independent live art exhibition project conceived, initiated and curated by artist duo VestAndPage, and co-organised by Studio Contemporaneo non-profit Cultural Association, We Exhibit, Venice Open Gates, Live Arts Cultures and European Cultural Centre | GAA Foundation, which hosts the project in its premises in Venice.

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is a free admission, non funded, non-profit, and non-commercial cultural project, under the patronage of the Regione Veneto and with the Municipal Administration Recognition of Citta’ di Venezia | Le Citta’ in Festa. The project is sustained by the cultural contribution of prestigious institutions, project-associated curators, and the logistics in-kind support of donors, philanthropists and Venetian enterprises such as ConCAVe, Riviera, Muro, Nono Risorto, ABS Group.

A comprehensive documentation of the III VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2016, accompanied by a selection of theoretical texts on performance art by international scholars, will be published after the event. The catalogue of the II VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2014 will be launched on this edition.

PROGRAM
Admission free

• Exhibition Opening
Saturday, 10 December 2016, 18:00h

• Exhibition hours
Sunday, 11 to Saturday, 17 December 2016, 12:00 - 21:00h

• Morning Talks
11, 12, 14 - 17 December 2016, 10:30h, Palazzo Michiel (Strada Nova, 4391, Campo Santi Apostoli)

13 December 2016, 10:30h, Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi (San Marco 3260, nearby Palazzo Grassi)
In collaboration with Galleria A plus A
Galleria A plus A Vernissage of the exhibition “The Material Body of Art”, 13:00h

• Live Durational Performances
Sunday, 11 to Saturday, 17 December 2016,15:00 - 18:00h

• Evening Program of Live Performances
Saturday, 10 to Saturday, 17 December 2016, 19:00 - 21:00h

LEARNING PROGRAM

• ART WEEK | Studies. PAStudies #51 "Critical Reflection II" by P.A.S. Performance Art Studies
• ART WEEK | Workshop Series, in collaboration with Live Arts Cultures (Spring 2017)

The detailed program can be found on the website: www.veniceperformanceart.org