Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know.

In the silence you don’t know. You must go on, and even if I can’t, I’ll go.

Samuel Beckett

For participants 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 • Links to a selection of inspiring contemporary Performance artists and institutions as pdf

1. *Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes are experienced workshop leaders and facilitators for students, arts professionals of different backgrounds, and non-art participants, either normally endowed or characterized by different abilities, of any age. Their practical workshops, research lectures and teachings have been held in various inviting institutions worldwide.

1. *Actions and exercises are innovative but inspired by Dynamic Breathing and Rebirthing Technique, Social Theater, Living Theater, Grotowski, Barba, Stanislavsky, Leclerc, Butoh, Sufism, Macro- and Microspherology, Liminality, Breath, Archetypes, Rituality, Memory activation, Body-Space-Sites, Time-Duration-Rhythm, Tension-Release, Voice/Sound, Emotional Atmosphere, Inter-activity.

1. *Workshop languages are English, Spanish, Italian or German.
   

1. ** For further information about VestAndPage's current workshop programs please contact verena(at)vest-and-page(dot)de or subscribe to the newsletter.

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

2. -To get distance from the mere being ‘virtuous’ by establishing, evaluating, and energizing the personal action in se.
   

3. -To get free of common behavorial patterns to create new ways of encounters, collaborations and realities.
   

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

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

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 Micro-spheres • 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

Tired of looking at things from an usual and obsolete perspective, with few friends, full of memories and remembrances, with a no-limits imagination, pathological, deprived, deviant, surreal, overwhelmed and overruled by daily prosaic worries and ordinary thoughts, being still beautiful, in a constant journey towards new productions, slowly moving to an end, living in an irreversible crisis, always clutched by doubts, sometimes radiant, other times miserable, being stuck for an answer, when where is a nowhere or somewhere else, with at least a hope in our hearts- looking at a feeble response, our fragile constituent limits, we invite people to gather those left things they really care- to share them with us and the others.