[artinfo] OPEN CALL | LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award

[Simone Frangi]

LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award Vol.3 
CentraleFies (Dro, IT) / Viafarini (Mi, IT)


Centrale Fies in collaboration with Viafarini presents:

LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award_Vol.3

curated by Barbara Boninsegna (artistic director 
of Centrale Fies, Dro), Simone Frangi (artistic 
director of Viafarini, Milan), Daniel 
Blanga-Gubbay (founder of Aleppo, 
Brussels), Denis Isaia (curator at MART, Rovereto)

The third edition of the project LIVE WORKS 
creates a platform dedicated to live contemporary 
practices that contribute to deepen and broaden 
the idea of performance, following the current 
evolution of performance and its styles.
This platform aims to measure the concreteness of 
performance art in the real world, investigating 
the double nature of LIVE - in person and alive - 
and highlighting those moments in which 
performance integrates with the dynamics of life.

LIVE WORKS is a platform that features LIVE WORKS 
Performance Act Award, The Free School of 
Performance (FSP) and Centrale Fies Performance 
Art Collection. The competition LIVE WORKS 
Performance Act Award is open to a wide range of 
emerging performative actions, including: media 
arts, lecture performances, task performances, 
text-based performances and multimedia 
storytelling, relational practices and 
workshop-based projects, flash mobs, politically 
engaged and activist project, experience design, 
fashion design and relational urbanism. The nine 
projects selected by LIVE WORKS will be invited 
to participate in a production residency at 
Centrale Fies from 1st to the 10th July 2015, 
during  which  the finalists  will  be  awarded 
an budget  extended to ¤ 800,00 to produce their 
performance and the opportunity to participate to 
The Free School of Performance.

The performances produced will be presented 
during the 35th edition of the Drodesera Festival 
of Performing Arts. On this occasion, the nine 
finalists will be evaluated by a jury who will 
select the winner. The winning artist will be 
offered a ¤ 1000,00 prize (net) and the 
possibility of an additional residency phase at 
Centrale Fies.

The Jury of LIVE WORKS Performance Act Award 
Vol.3 is composed by: Michelangelo 
Pistoletto (president of the jury) artist, 
founder of Cittadellarte - Fondazione 
Pistoletto, Biella | Danjel Andersson, writer, 
editor, curator, director of MDT, Stockholm 
| Marwa Arsanios, artist, co-founder of 98Weeks, 
Beirut |Dora García, artist, co-director of Les 
Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers 
| Nico Vascellari, artist, founder of Codalunga, 
Vittorio Veneto

Download competition announcement here:

<http://www.centralefies.it/events/live-works-performance-act-awardvol3_33.html>http://www.centralefies.it/events/live-works-performance-act-awardvol3_33.html

<http://www.viafarini.org/english/shows/live_works.html>http://www.viafarini.org/english/shows/live_works.html



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Simone Frangi
Artistic Director

Viafarini DOCVA
Organisation for Contemporary Art
Documentation Center for Visual Arts
Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4,
20154 Milano

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