Films available as Video On Demand online streaming
Best Film at Berlin Independent Film Award 2018
Best Experimental Film at PixelsGARAGE
Awards of Excellence 2021
A new series of videos in which we host conversations under existential focus with people from the arts, culture and science
We are currently in production of our performance-based feature film on Deep Time at the interface of body art and science
Our current performance cycle is being developed since 2017 as collective performance operas
1 9 Monologue – Letters from Isolation
An autobiographical performance text about the home of pathogens in the primate body in pulmonary tuberculosis
How to inhabit the cæsura
Development of pandemic-conform live art workshop methodologies
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
Letters from isolation
2020
momentum
Video series
2020-ongoing
momentum
In development, Video series
Art, Documentary, Zeitgeist, History, Philosophy, Science, Dialogue
FILM AND PERFORMANCE SCREENINGS
Starting October 31, 2020
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, RS
VestAndPage / Venice International Performance Art Week curate the 20-week long Performance Art Film Program as part of the Performance Art Program at MoCAB directed by Marta Jovanovic.
22 November and 10 December 2020, for 24 hours starting from 20:00 (CET)
Fuorinorma #4 La Via Neosperimentale del Cinema Italiano
24-hours VOD streaming of Plantain
7 December 2020, for 24 hours starting from 20:00
Fuorinorma #4 La Via Neosperimentale del Cinema Italiano
24-hours VOD streaming Amor and Psyche (In Times of Plagues)
April 5 and 12, 2021, 16:00
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, RS
Performance Art Film Program
Apr 5, 2021: Screening of Plantain
Apr 12, 2021: Screening of ANAM CARA – Mirror in the Mirror
April 2021
Online streaming of Amor and Psyche (In Times of Plagues) in occasion of 52vids x Ibrida
19 May (7pm) to 21 May (9pm)
Butohpolis, Warszaw, PL
Online Poland premiere screening of Plantain
2021
Videobardo Festival y Archivio de Videopoesia, Buenos Aires, AR
Screening of SIGNUM and sin∞fin - Performances at the Core of the Looking-Glass
In planning
The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK presents the public premiere screening of ANAM CARA - Mirror in the Mirror.
RECENT WRITINGS ABOUT VESTANDPAGE
"Dreharbeiten mit Künstlerduo – Cosmo-Hase erforscht die Unterwelt"
"Kunstfilmdreh in der Falkensteiner Höhle bei Grabenstetten"
"Das Künstlerpaar VestAndPage produziert einen Performance-Film"
"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
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
HANIX Magazin - Blickt voraus!
Andrea Pagnes, "Schiebt nicht Deutschland die Schuld zu (Teil 1)", Nr. 68, August/September 2020. Andrea Pagnes on the resurgence of anti-German sentiment in Italy during the pandemic.
Non abbiamo idea di come diventare Internet-based performance artists
VestAndPage's considerations on the work of performance artists during the Covid-19 pandemic, L'INFORME webzine, July 22, 2020.
Part 1 – Il performer è assente
Part 2 – Rappresentare. Astrarre. Ricorrere. Praticare.(Ologramma 2.0)
Part 3 – Col corpo capisco. Nell'infinito presente.
Amidst the Spreading: A Chronicle from the (Old) Continent
Andrea Pagnes' consideration on the Covid-19 pandemic, Live Art Development Agency | Blog, April 1, 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 Southern Germany
sin∞fin Trilogy | Video On Demand
VestAndPage's performance-based film trilogy sin∞fin (2010-2012) is available as Video On Demand from VUCAVU
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Poetics of Relations – A Manifesto on performance-based filmmaking