PAB 2024 SEMINAR—“The challenges performance art faces”

Date: 04.10.2024
Time: 11:00-16:00
Host: Performance Art Bergen



PAB 2024 SEMINAR—“The challenges performance art faces”

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(Language: English)

Performance art requires the presence and time of both the audience and the artists. In an increasingly busy and digital world, performance art engages with time, politics, and entertainment. At performance art events, one encounters various methods and strategies depending on the artists' age, interests, and performance art environments. How can organisers facilitate the diversity of these different strategies without compromising the experience of the audience and the artist?

Performance art encompasses everything from political statements to visual poetic presentations. The purpose of the seminar is to discuss and exchange experiences on how performance art can adapt in an increasingly digitised and busier world, while still maintaining its essential requirement for the presence of both the audience and the artists.

The seminar has invited artists from the organisations Bbeyond, PAN & PAB who will have talks by Kurt Johannessen, Rita Marhaug, Bronagh Lawson, Siobhán Mullen, Thomas Wells, Greig Burgoyne, Finn Adrian Jorkjen, Ollie Hermansson and Benedict Beldam; and it will be moderated by Eleanor Clare.


SEMINAR PROGRAM:
(for detailed information on each speaker please see the Facebook event)

11:00-11:10(10 min) - “Introduction”

Performance Art Bergen - Mia Øquist, coordinator of PAB Open Festival, and Anette Friedrich Johannessen, board leader of PAB

11:10-11:50 (40 min) - “A fragile contemporary reality”

Performance Art organisation Bbeyond (Northern Ireland) - Bronagh Lawson, Siobhan Mullen, Thomas Wells

12:00 - 12:30 (30 min) - “Planning”
Performance Art Bergen - Kurt Johannessen & Rita Marhaug

Lunch 12:30-13:30

13:30-14:00 (30 min) - “What is beyond the visible”
Artist/performance art organiser Greig Burgoyne (England)

14:10 - 14:50 (40 min) - “Confessions of a performance artist”
Performance Art Norway - Finn Adrian Jorkjen, Ollie Hermansson & Benedict Beldam

15:00 - 15:45 (45 min) - “Open Forum/discussion”
Moderator - Eleanor Clare


INFORMATION ORGANISATIONS

Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Our aim is to raise people's consciousness of live/performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experiences. We host artists of international reputation throughout the performance artworld and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves.
www.bbeyond.live

Performance Art Norway is an artist-run association started in 2023. The group was established by a group of younger artists longing for a community and collegial space to discuss challenges related to performance art. Performance Art Norway aims to create meeting points for artists with performative practices, mediate performances happening in Norway and facilitate events concerning performance art. Since their conception they have been arranging workshops, meetings and performance events.

Performance Art Bergen (PAB) is a membership organisation for performance artists and others interested in visual performance. PAB has arranged hundreds of performance events since its establishment in 2011. PAB aims to strengthen and make visible performance art by arranging academic forums, workshops, open sessions, festivals and international exchanges. The organisation is located in Bergen, but works locally, nationally and internationally.

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