GREEN GUIDE OF PRODUCTION
We have qualified in 2022, 2023 and 2024 as an Active Member of Gallery Climate Coalition and implement environmental sustainability best practices under GCC guidance. > > > Read our Green Guide of Production.
OPEN CALL OPPORTUNITIES
May - December 2026
COMMISSIONING PERFORMANCE-FOR-FILM The call is now open for artists to submit performance-for-film projects to be commissioned as part of the project DigiLiveAir: On Climate Emergency, curated by Verena Stenke (EntrAxis e.V.). Open until April 15, 2026.
July 20-23, 2026
4-DAY WORKSHOP Co-creation workshop with a final performance as part of STORIE Festival of Performance. Applications are now accepted.
September 5 - October 3 2026
MASTERCLASS Our 5-weekends online masterclass on performance-based filmmaking returns to ECC Performance Art. Registrations are now open.
Ongoing
Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF We are delighted to announce Andrea as an editor-in-chief of PEET. > Ongoing Call for Papers
CURRENT + UPCOMING
PAV Performance Art Video // ONLINE
CURATION The new video-on-demand platform, dedicated to supporting performance artists, showcases our performance-based films and those of many other artists.
March 23, 2026
Villa Reale - Reggia di Monza, Monza (IT)
PERFORMANCE A poetic performance intervention as part of the conference UR-RA: Poetisa, Mistica, Linguaggio.
May 19, 2026
Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg (NL)
SYMPOSIUM Isolation as Relation: Visitation as a hauntological method of situated performance at sanatoriums by Verena Stenke as part of the symposium CONTACT ZONES: Performing Connection in Public Space
June 9, 2026
CONFERENCE Andrea Pagnes as part of the conference Educazione, Formazione, Spiritualità. Contemporary Humanities, Trinamica ed ecologie quantistiche per le Scienze della Vita Contemporanee
July 15-18, 2026
Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Jakarta (ID)
CONFERENCE HOME – Methodologies in Motion: Real-Time Performance and the Fluid Ethics of Belonging by Andrea Pagnes as part of the PSi#31 Jakarta: Archipelagic Flows conference
June 18, 2026
University of Salford, Manchester (UK)
CONFERENCE Melting the Frame: Performance-based filmmaking as experimental fiction and somatic knowledge by Andrea Pagnes as part of the INEFF Conference.
June 26, 2026, 19:00
PERFORMANCE The New Gaza Monologues - Collective reading of the texts by ASHTAR Theatre presented by the Venice International Performance Art Week.
July 6-10, 2026
CONFERENCE Paper by Andrea Pagnes as part of the IFTR 2026 World Congress: What Theatre Does
July 20-26, 2026
Museum of Mazovian Art, Plock (PL)
PERFORMANCE + WORKSHOPas part of STORIE Festival of Performance
December 10-13, 2026
Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT)
Save the Date: the 10th Venice International Performance Art Week
RECENT RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Critical Body in Performance as Research (PaR): Accessing knowledge through embodied practices
Stenke V. (2026) APRIA Journal: Practices of Research in Art Education.
Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence
Pagnes A. (2026) VestAndPage’s Blood Writing as a Device to Perform Identity in Crisis. In: S. Sharma, M. Bhattacharya (Eds.) ISBN 978-1-0364-6295-6.
The Routledge Companion to Performance and Science
Pagnes, A. (2025) The Disquieting Body in VestAndPage's Performance Art: Diagnose, Cure, Heal, Perform. In: P. Johnson, S. Parry, A. Senior (Eds.) ISBN 9781032138992.
Pagnes, Andrea and Stenke, Verena (2025) Breathwork in VestAndPage Performance Practice, 29:4-5, 112-118, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2024.2511383.
"Performance as a Research Device" by Andrea Pagnes (2025) MIMESIS Edizioni. Edited by Francesco Monico, Paolo Naldini, and Michele Cerruti But. ISBN: 9791222313504.
Gotas de Sangue, Palavras Vermelhas: A Escrita com Sangue de VestAndPage em suas Performances. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5965/1414573102552025e0203
UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies
Stenke, Verena and Pagnes. Andrea (2025) STRATA – A performance-based film on Deep Time in the body and the geologic, 22, 45–71.
Theatre and Performing Arts, Disability Citizenship and Community Development – Perspectives from the Global South and North
Monteiro, Felipe and Pagnes, Andrea (2024) We Do Not Need Pity. We Need Opportunities: Considerations of a Performer with Differentiated Body. In V. Glørstad, T. P. Østern, T. McCaffrey, K. Chikonzo & N. Chivandikwa (eds.), pp. 87–107. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance
Pagnes, Andrea (2025) "VestAndPage’s performance operas: Dreaming space–time alternatives through body-based performance actions and sound"
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Pagnes, Andrea and Stenke, Verena (2025) "momentum VII: How to Celebrate Differences? Andrea Pagnes in conversation with Amelia Jones"
PEET, Volume 15, Issue 1
STRATA: The Research Process in the Making of a Performance-Based Film
By Andrea Pagnes, Douglas Quin, Verena Stenke, daz disley
On: Vol. 9 No. 1-2 (2023): Performing Practice-Based Research
ISSN 2369-2537.
Et Anima Est Sanguis et Sanguis Est Anima
By Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke
28(1) 22-26. 2023. DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2023.2222353
Poetics of Relations – A Manifesto on Performance-Based Filmmaking
By Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes
Journal of Embodied Research, 3(1), 3 (26:55). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.37.
RECENT WRITINGS ABOUT VESTANDPAGE
I Love to You and Cut on Me: A Call from the Surface
Wu, Yu-Chien (2025) Performance Philosophy 10(1): 101–119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21476/PP.2025.101531.
Icy Love: Performing Affect and Emotion Feeling About Climate Change
Essay by Peta Tait in Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics, Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jürgens (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
1 9 Monologue at The Place is a Dance Macabre by Bengi-Sue Sirin
Antarctica. Performing Landscapes – Performing Ice
The essay Figures in a Landscape by Douglas Quin includes an in-depth review of our performance-based film work sin∞fin in Antarctica. Performing Landscapes – Performing Ice ed. C. Philpott, E. Leane and M. Delbridge, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-47388-4.