STRATA
2021, Performance-based film
Exploring memory layers and Deep Time in human history and the geological. In caves of human prehistory at the caves of the Swabian Alb, the project brings together artists and researchers from the humanities, social and geologic sciences to investigate the human body as a place that exists in continuity with the geological. Body artists illuminate concepts of time, past and modern human cultures through performances for camera in caves. These poetic body images are nourished by documentary elements in the form of conversations with specialists from the fields of archaeology, palaeontology, geology, speleology, art history, philosophy, and time psychology.
Art, Body, Geology, Time, History, Science, Documentary
STRATA
Performance-based film
2021
1 9 Monologue
2020, Letters from isolation
While many in Europe consider it to be long since eradicated, it still presents the deadliest pandemic worldwide. In the Romantic period, it was epitome of muse and poetry and a popular motif in painting, literature and music. The talk is of tuberculosis. In July 2019, atypically, the young German artist Verena Stenke was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. Her own experience of being as a body home to pathogens, flows into this autobiographical performance text, while building a bridge between precise self-observation and a global, historical and literary outside.
1 9 Monologue
Performance text
2020-ongoing
momentum
Video series
2020-ongoing
momentum
In development, Video series
Art, Documentary, Zeitgeist, History, Philosophy, Science, Dialogue
FILMS | PERFORMANCES | WORKSHOPS
Our films are available as Video On Demand online streaming
August 7, 2021
Castello di Rocca Sinibalda, IT
Italian premiere of 1 9 Monologue in the occasion of Endecameron | Incubatio
September 13 - October 30, 2021
Strangelove Festival, Folkestone, UK
Online screening of Amor and Psyche (In Times of Plagues) and Plantain
September 17, 2021
English premiere of 1 9 Monologue in the occasion of Strangelove Festival
September 20-25, 2021
FUTURERITUAL / performance s p a c e, Folkestone, UK
Mythic Time – A one-week workshop by VestAndPage and Joseph Morgan Schofield
September 25, 2021, 14:30 (UCT)
Untitled Festival – Online Sign-Up
Freedom is Relational – A Live Artists Think Tank presented by VestAndPage with Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Benjamin Sebastian and Marcel Sparmann.
October 9 - November 7, 2021
Screening of SIGNUM on the occasion of Residents of the Port City
November 10-30, 2021
Videobardo Festival y Archivio de Videopoesia, Buenos Aires, AR
Screening of SIGNUM and sin∞fin - Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass
December 11, 2021
MUG Einstein Kultur, Munich, DE
German premiere of 1 9 Monologue in the occasion of OPEAN Festival
Poetics of Relations – A Manifesto on Performance-Based Filmmaking
Stenke, V., & Pagnes, A. (2020). Poetics of Relations: A Manifesto on Performance-Based Filmmaking. Journal of Embodied Research, 3(1), 3 (26:55). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.37
This video article expands upon the Poetics of Relations, the embodied research of VestAndPage (Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes), which informs their performance-based filmmaking theory and practice.
Embodied Practices, Filmmaking, Performance art, Manifesto, Geo-psychology, Artistic collaboration, Socio-Cultural spheres, History, War, Environment
POETICS OF RELATIONS
A Manifesto on Performance-Based Filmmaking
Video Article, JER Journal of Embodied Research
2020
RECENT WRITINGS ABOUT VESTANDPAGE
"Plantain by VestAndPage: Crumbs of Displaced Memories" (Polish)
"Kunst und Wissenschaft: Das Filmprojekt 'Strata' in den Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb" (German)
"Figures in a Landscape" by Douglas Quin
The essay 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.
RECENT WRITINGS BY VESTANDPAGE
Andrea Pagnes on Turkish Performance Art
Performistanbul Publications, Text originally written in June 2019
HOME – Ciclo de performances por VestAndPage
Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke, Revista digital Acciones al Margen #2, ISSN 2711-2241, pp. 44-73.
Poetics of Relations – A Manifesto on Performance-Based Filmmaking
Our manifesto as video article on the Journal of Embodied Research, 3(1), 3 (26:55). DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.37.
Ephemera Journal of Theatre and Performance Studies – Dossiê Corpos e Deficiência em Cena
Andrea Pagnes, "On Disability Culture, Performing Arts, Social Theatre and the Practice of Beauty", ed. Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, Luciana da Costa Dias, v. 3, n. 5, maio/agosto 2020
Ephemera Journal of Theatre and Performance Studies – Dossier Antonin Artaud
"MIRRORING THE DOUBLE AND THE CRUEL – Living, Uncaging, Offending, Celebrating, Analysing: considerations on a few artistic experiences that echoed Artaud’s thought", ed. Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil, Luciana da Costa Dias, Vol 2, No 3 (2019): Dez 2019.
"Considerations on Pain and Suffering in VestAndPage's Performance Art", Salvador, ano 22, n.32, p.266-300, 2019.1.
Corpos Diferenciados em Performance
eds. Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira & Nara Salle
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2018
RECENT INTERVIEWS
La urgencia de creación desde ese tesoro primordial que es el cuerpo –VestAndPage en Argentina
Work overview and interview with VestAndPage about their works in Argentina 2010-2012, Argentina Performance Art, April 2020.
Interview by Gisela Hochuli with Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage), 2019.
ONGOING
Venice International Performance Art Week, Venice, IT
Founders and main force behind the international live art exhibition project and residential educational program taking place since 2012
AHRC-funded research network ROCK/BODY - Performative Interfaces Between The Geologic And The Body in partnership with the British Geological Survey
Making space for performance art in Germany
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Poetics of Relations – A Manifesto on performance-based filmmaking