AUTHENTICITY | PERCEPTION | INTUITION | INNER LIBRARY | THREE BODIES: BODY BODY - BODY MIND - BODY SPIRIT | TRANSFORMATION | READINESS | EndurANCE | ENCOUNTERS | FRAGILE LIMITS | INNER SENSORS | MEMORY ACTIVATION | LIMINALITY | ARCHETYPES | OBJECT | SPACE

The intensive FRAGILE LIMITS and MAYDAY workshops follow VestAndPage’s unique method through the process of making a performative piece. During the practical exercises, under various conditions, the participants are provided with means to conceive, develop and realize a performance, mainly using their own body as a tool:

Further readings and links


• VestAndPage’s MayDay Workshop concept as pdf

• Essays by Andrea Pagnes about Contemporary Art and Art Action

• About Dynamic Breathing Techniques

• Essay by Lee Wen: What’s vital about ‘Vital’?

• Essay by Giovanni Fontana: Le Dinamiche nomadi della Performance (Italian)

• Italo Calvino Six Memos for the next Millenium

• Kassim Bayatly La struttura dei corpi sottili - Il teatro intermediario (Italian)

• Peter Sloterdijk about Macro- and Microspherology

  1. - To work towards touching point zero in judgment and intention, heightening perception, introspection, to then rebuild an authenticity-based expression, for finally transforming visions and ideas into a concrete artistic action.


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


  1. - To free oneself from common behavorial patterns so as to create new ways of encountering, collaborating and living.


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


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

workshops

Actions and exercises are innovative but inspired by Dynamic Breathing, Social Theater, Living Theater, Grotowski, Barba, Stanislavsky, Leclerc, Sufism, Macro- and Microspherology, Authenticity, Inner Library, Liminality, Breath, Archetypes, Rituality, Memory activation, Body-Space-Object, Time-Duration-Rhythm, Voice/Sound, Emotional Atmosphere, Inter-activity.

Practical workshops can be held in 1 day intensive sessions, as well as more days thematic workouts on single elements: Dynamic Breathing • Fragile Limits • Macro- and Microspheres • The Three Bodies: Corpus - Mind - Soul • Archetypes


Theoretical seminars and lectures can be held on: The Fall of Faust: Contemporary Art and Action Art • I cannot cut myself an ear every day - Overview of the History of Performance and Live art • Body Issues in Performance art in Theory and Praxis • The Idea of the Image in Art


Workshop languages are English, Spanish, Italian or German.


Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes are experienced workshop facilitators for students, art professionals of different backgrounds and non-art participants, either normally endowed or differently abled, of any age.

Their have been invited to hold practical workshops, research lectures and teachings in institutions worldwide such as Centre for Community Cultural Development (Hong Kong), Universidad Nacional de las Arte Experimental (Caracas), Taipei Artist Village (Taipei), Theater Academy IsoleComprese (Florence), Academy of Fine Arts (Venice), Universidad Austral (Valdivia, Chile), Alumnos47 Foundation (Mexico City), Deutsches Institut (Florence), Grace Exhibition Space (New York), TeaK Theater Academy (Helsinki), Seoul Art Space (Seoul), EMBA Escuela Carlos Morel (Buenos Aires), The Substation (Singapore), BITEF Theater (Belgrade), NYU Steinhardt School of Culture (Venice/New York).


For further inquiries about VestAndPage's current workshop programs please contact verena@vest-and-page.de or subscribe to our newsletter.

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Video documentary about the “Fragile Limits” workshop at Taipei Artist Village, 2012

by Liu Yao 劉躍 and Chai-Roun Hsu 許家榕 for AIR Taipei.