A platform to explore performance art on video founded on the principles of solidarity and inclusion.
PAV
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Performance art, in circulation.
PAV is an artist-run, nonprofit project dedicated to performance art on video.
We bring artists, curators and audiences together around works that engage with the social, political and ecological realities of our time.
Rooted in solidarity and inclusion, PAV creates ways for performance art to travel across geographical, economic and institutional boundaries, while generating support for the artists whose work makes the platform possible.
Supporting what comes next.
Artists, their work, research and time are the reason PAV exists.
Support the work. Join the community.
Your contribution helps us sustain the platform while supporting new artistic creation.
The remaining 40% sustains the infrastructure, editorial work and operations that keep the platform running. This creates a simple cycle:
Encounter > Support > Creation > Circulation >
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The Stillness We Carry
A platform to explore performance art on video founded on the principles of solidarity and inclusion.We trust in change.
PAV exists to:
present and disseminate performance art responding to contemporary realities;support artists through commissions and opportunities for artistic development; broaden access to performance beyond established cultural centres; connect artists, curators, organisations and audiences;reinvest platform income directly into creating new work.
Art circulates. Audiences encounter it. Support returns to artists. New work becomes possible.
Every periphery can become a centre. PAV works towards a cultural ecology in which artistic practices can circulate without losing their complexity.We are interested in what happens when access is decentralised: when a work made in one place can enter into relation with someone living elsewhere; when audiences become active participants in sustaining artistic practice; when cultural value is not determined exclusively by proximity to established institutions.Rather than imagining change as a distant ideal, we work through protopian actions: situated gestures that improve the conditions in which artists create, and audiences encounter their work.
Join the Community.
An audience can also sustain what it encounters. Joining PAV means more than following a platform.
It means entering a cultural ecology in which attention can become participation.
You encounter an artwork. You give it time. You might share it. You might support it.
That support helps another artist make another work.
PAV is a platform to explore performance art on video founded on the principles of solidarity and inclusion. We trust in change.
PAV operates as a cultural community:to host, foster and disseminate performance art videos that raise awareness and respond to contemporary emergencies;to generate sustainable revenues for the featured artists through users’ subscriptions, donations and video visualisation on demand.
PAV aims to consolidate a space for community building by performance making, strengthening dialogues between the artists and their supporters to target the crucial urgencies of our contemporaneity.
PAV is managed by a fluid team of artists, curators and professionals operating in the field of technology and innovation.