14 Mar 2018

OPEN CALL Live Works Performance act award Vol.6

Live Works Performance act award Vol.6
7th – 22rd July 2018

The sixth edition of the international announcement entirely dedicated to performance art,
a project promoted and supported by Centrale Fies

curated by

Barbara Boninsegna (artistic director of Centrale Fies, Dro)
Simone Frangi (researcher and curator, Milan)
Daniel Blanga Gubbay (ALEPPO, Brussels)

deadline 2nd April 2018

The award includes a creative residency period, for nine selected projects, and it is unique in its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the openness and fluidity of performance, its social and political implications and its level of public understandability.

The nine projects selected by LIVE WORKS will be invited to participate in a production residency at Centrale Fies (Dro, Italy) from the 7th to the 17th July 2018 and will be awarded a budget of € 1.500,00 each.

The production of the performance projects during the residency will be supported by diverse types of curatorship, from theoretical to technical development. LIVE WORKS provides a theoretical program: the Free School of Performance, that includes studio visits, critical sessions, reading groups.

The performances produced will be presented during the 38th edition of the Drodesera Festival of Performing Arts (20th, 21st, 22nd July 2018).
On this occasion, the nine winning projects will be seen and discussed by a board of international professionals, working for festivals, institutions, residencies and production programs that sustain and produce research in performance. The board will be actively involved in public and private meetings with the nine artists.

For Live Works vol. 6 the guest board is composed by:

Alessio Antoniolli (Director of Gasworks, London, and Director of Triangle Network);
Anne Breure (Artistic Director, Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam);
Juan Canela (Independent curator and writer. Co-founder of BAR project, Barcelona, and member of the Programs Committee at HANGAR, Barcelona);
Gundega Laivina (Director of New Theatre Institute of Latvia and Director of Homo Novus, Riga);
Vittoria Matarrese ((Head of cultural program and special projects, Curator of Performance Art, Palais de Tokyo, Paris);
Alexander Roberts (co-Director of Reykjavik Dance Festival, Programme Director for the masters in Performing Arts at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and co-Founder of A! International Performance Festival in Akureyri)

The competition is open to a wide range of emerging performative actions, including: Performances, sound and new media arts, text-based performances, lecture performances, multimedia storytelling, choreographic practices, relational and workshop-based projects, and other projects questioning the idea of performativity beyond the body.
Artists and professionals from any geographic location and with no limits on age can enter the competition, as individuals or in groups, with a single project.

Apply here!

www.liveworksaward.com/live-works-2017/