Performance Crossings vol. 0
Performance Crossings vol. 0
Performance art festival is coming
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From 3rd to 6th of May the zero volume of the Performance Crossings will be held by the Prague’s Cross Club. Performance Crossings vol. 0 is a zero year of the international festival focused on comprehension of the contemporary shapes in performance art.
Performance art is similar to drama, poetry or punk music a form of a specific, unique and artistic expression of a dialogue with surrounding world. Performance Crossings offers basic insight to various forms of performance art with accent to understanding of their stylistic principles and establishing mutual communication between performer and spectator / between a thought and its performance.
„We want to bring together people who work within performance art, live art and other related forms and get them closer with the wider audience who is not familiar / understandable with such kind of art. Our goal is to cleanse terminological ambiguities connected with the terms like performance art, live art, performance studies, performative arts and offer to the audience a possibility of better understanding of their main points. To involved artists we propose a platform for intergenre communication that accents what we find important - the articulation of contemporary topics and finding a proper forms for such expressions.“ comments the curator Petr Dlouhý and Antonín Brinda.
In four festival days the festival offers a wide range of performances by the international artists that would take part at the Prague’s Cross Club. Wednesday the 3rd will also bring several performance in public space in Holešovice and other city districts of Prague.
The programme concerns well known personalities working in the fields of performance art as BBB Johannes Deimling from Germany, Arianna Ferrari from Italy or Racha Baroud from Lebanon and Tereza Kerle or Darina Alster from Czech artists together with Jiří Kovanda who will support the festival with his lecture to open the perception of performance art.
On the other hand the festival is a space for young artists. Performance Crossings aims to to make a possibility for several performers from all around the world to meet at one place to get to know each other and establish a new way of cooperation with the Prague’s Cross Club. Concerning artists who are starting in the field of performance art (Rogier Hornman from Netherlands) or those who take performance art as an important part of their continuous work. This line is followed by the festival in engaging the professional theatre group Performalita who collaborates with Cross Club continually.
Special event in the programme will be a sleep performance by Heidi Hornáčková – Sleep: Colours that enables audience to oversleep in the attic of Cross Club and experience a unique atmosphere combining the sleep itself with a theatrical – aesthetic experience.
WHEN: 03. – 06. květen 2017
WHERE: Cross Club, Prague 7 and specific places in other city districts of Prague
CONTACT: Petr Dlouhý; curator jsemdva@gmail.com +420 731 468 447
ORGANIZER: Cross Club
