VIPAW 2024 - Portals and Constellations
Portals and Constellations, the 9th Venice International Performance Art Week, brought together live performance, exhibition, moving image, sound and participatory encounters across four days at Palazzo Mora in Venice.
The 2024 edition addressed social connection through the lens of performativity. Its curatorial framework approached “portals” as thresholds towards alternative trajectories and “constellations” as ways of rethinking relationships between people, ideas, problems and practices in response to contemporary emergencies.
PAV participated as a presenting organisation and through the CONSTELLATION project. The programme included VestAndPage’s STRATA as a six-room multi-channel video installation, alongside works presented by PAV with NURT and Untitled Tbilisi with the support of Perform Europe.
The event was presented by Studio Contemporaneo, PAV Performance Art Video, Live Arts Cultures and EntrAxis, in collaboration with Future Ritual, NURT and Untitled Tbilisi. It was realised with the support of Perform Europe as part of CONSTELLATION, alongside a wider network of international partners and supporters.
Event: Portals and Constellations
Edition: 9th Venice International Performance Art Week
Date: 12–15 December 2024
Venue: European Cultural Centre (ECC) — Palazzo Mora
Location: Venice, Italy
Format: Festival · Live Performance · Exhibition
Artistic Direction & Curation: VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke)
Co-curators: Laurenz Agustin Arguello · Gabriel Lyons · Giorgi Rodionov · Małgorzata Sady · Joseph Morgan Schofield
Presented by: Studio Contemporaneo × PAV Performance Art Video × Live Arts Cultures × EntrAxis
In collaboration with: Future Ritual × NURT × Untitled Tbilisi
Main project support: Perform Europe / CONSTELLATION
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