LINK IN BIO. Live Art Forms performative practices master’s program is accepting applications for 2026 until April 15th.
As a newly developed program, Live Art Forms seeks to foster a contemporary understanding of performance art, not simply as a practice between visual and performing arts, but as an “undiscipline” - an array of performative and aesthetic practices that take place in a variety of public spaces, on digital platforms, via networked infrastructures and that are rooted in and emerge from both social and physical bodies.
The program is hosted and directed by Professor JP Raether (performative practices), Assistant Professor Tamara Antonijevic (expanded dramaturgies), and Professor Kerstin Stakemeier (theory).
As a low-residency program, Live Art Forms especially welcomes applications from international students. The program features a uniquely structured course load with one-month-long teaching phases in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. These phases require student’s presence on campus at the academy in Nuremberg. They alternate with longer phases of independent study, during which students are free to pursue their projects off campus.
All classes are taught in English. Knowledge of German is not a requirement for application. As a public university, we offer the program free of tuition for students from all world regions. Please visit our website for more information on the application process and detailed admission requirements or @liveartforms Instagram for regular updates and events.
Graphics by Ceren Su Çelik and VOJD.
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LAF Student Feature #1 : Máncel Martinez mxncel_
Welcome to the first of a series of posts introducing the work of our students!
I’m Máncel, a Colombian dancer and performer with a taste for trash, pop, cutre and gore as a way of resisting a colonial sensibility for cleanliness. You can usually find me deforming perreo, playing live with the sounds of my stomach, wondering about the trajectory of spit, gossiping with my inner organs, dancing illness and desire…
In the LAF program I’ve been working on a performance that stands some where between an intestinal ambient/noise concert, where the only instrument is the live sounds of guts, and a queer body horror movie made contemporary dance.
I'm interested in how the body can be shaped by disciplinary practices, but also how it
can practice bodily undiscipline. The body is an anthropophagic laboratory that can
swoallow cultural codes and practices, and vomit them back as something completely
new, deformed in its new embodiment. Dance has served me as a tool for deformation,
a field in which to mutate.
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In spring 2026 we will welcome artist duo LABOUR to Live Art Forms, where they will offer mentoring to students on their developing projects.
LABOUR is the Berlin-based artist duo of Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander who create works based on sound. Collaborating as a duo since 2013, they founded LABOUR in 2018 with their work, ‘next time, die consciously’. They have presented their work all over the world, including at Donaueschinger Musiktage, Martin Gropius Bau, Kraftwerk Berlin, Sharjah Biennial, Art Basel, Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin, Grand National Theatre Dakar, EMΣT National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, MUDAM Luxembourg and Berghain Klubnacht. They have released music
on labels such as Honest Jon’s, Kuboraum Editions, and their own imprint, studio LABOUR. Their installation work ‘tower of silence’ was recently acquired by the Julia Stoschek Collection.
They regularly collaborate on works for theater, performance, video and fashion, are fellows of Villa Aurora Los Angeles, have a monthly radio show on NTS, and are long-term residents of Callie’s shared sound studio in Berlin. They previously ran the experimental music venue in Berlin called N.K. Projekt.
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This spring phase we were lucky to be visited by Juan Domínguez @juandominguezrojo who shared his performance “Between what is no longer and what is not yet” with us.
In “Between what is no longer and what is not yet”, Juan Domínguez creates a suspended space — a threshold where time stops moving forward and becomes a malleable material. Rather than unfolding as a linear narrative, the work opens up an in-between territory where past and future fold into one another, generating an expanded present shared with the audience.
On stage, the artist adopts the format of a monologue to construct a game of mirrors. Through narratives that function as quotes — his own and others’, real and displaced — Domínguez composes a fragmented portrait of himself. Yet this seemingly autobiographical identity soon reveals itself as a collective construction: it is activated in the imagination of those who listen and completed within each spectator’s memory. The piece thus poses an essential question: what is identity if not a story we build between what we remember and what has not yet happened?
Juan Dominguez is an artist, maker, and organizer within the fields of choreography and performing arts, based in Berlin and Mexico City. He considers himself a conceptual clown, unrestrained narrator, and curator of pleasure. Since 1992, he has been producing his own work, exploring theatre as a medium and redefining the parameters of dance—body, time, space, and language. His work emphasizes the participatory aspect of live art, seeking new ways to understand responsibility, commitment, and co-authorship among all involved.
Thank you Juan!
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LAF Lecture Series: Stina Fors stinaforce April 15th 2026
Stina Fors is a performance artist, choreographer, and experimental vocalist whose practice centres on the voice — its power, its failures, and everything that slips between the two. Working through solo and durational performance, she uses voice, rhythm, and embodiment to explore what happens when speech exceeds intention: as pressure, excess, noise, or unexpected revelation.
Her performances are humorous, raw, and risky — built on improvisation, punk energy, and a genuine appetite for the unpredictable. Key works include A Mouthful of Tongues (ventriloquism, vocal distortion), Stina Force (live drumming and vocal improvisation), and Answer Me, Pythia (a durational encounter with oracles, uncertainty, and belief).
She has presented work internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and the Gwangju Biennale, and is the recipient of the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance. She studied at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.
Stina Fors (b. 1989, Sweden) is based in Vienna.
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Teo Ala-Ruona @teoalaruona will join us this spring at Live Art Forms to mentor students on their work in development.
Teo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, working in the expanded field of performance at the intersection of choreography, contemporary theatre, and visual arts. His practice seeks an embodied metaphysical transformation that shifts the attunement of human corporeality, navigating the intersections of linguistic, somatic, and social existence. Approaching trans embodiment as a critical dissection of society’s conception of the body, Ala-Ruona’s work aims to expand our understanding of what a body can be. Rooted in embodied practice, philosophy, and theory, his work considers the performer as both a reflective surface and an active agent in negotiating pre-given categories.
Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been presented at the Biennale Architettura (Venice), the Performa Biennial (New York), the Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art (Vilnius), the Finnish National Gallery Kiasma (Helsinki), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London).
He holds an MA in Art Education from the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (2016) and an MA in Ecology and Contemporary Performance from the Helsinki Theatre Academy (2018). Ala-Ruona is an associate artist at the Zodiak - Center for New Dance for the period 2025–2028.
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Marcello Evelin visited LAF in October last year and held a lecture-performance + led a two day movement workshop. Thank you to Marcello for sharing your practice with us! #liveartforms #performanceart #adbknuernberg #soma #dance #movementresearch #somatics #marceloevelin #marceloevelindemolitioninc
We were joined by @joeyholder__ for the LAF lecture series in the January winter phase. Thank you Joey for the wild ride through the Noosphere, Chaos magic, multimedia installation and generative AI!
Joey Holder is an artist whose work interrogates the accelerating datafication of the natural world and its impact on how life is understood, imagined, and valued.
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Link in Bio: Apply to Live Art Forms MA before April 15 2026.
As an international master’s program, Live Art Forms is taught in English. Knowledge of German is not a requirement for the application. The program features a unique structure that allows it to be both an intensely focused campus-based learning environment and, at the same time, to foster mobility of students and faculty across the metropolitan region of Germany and beyond.
Therefore, students are required to be present on campus only during four one-month-long phases in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. These intensive phases alternate with phases of independent study, during which students are free to pursue their projects elsewhere and off-campus, while remaining digitally connected with our faculty.
We especially welcome applications from international students, and, as part of the public university system, we offer the program tuition-free to students from all regions of the world.
APPLY NOW! Live Art Forms performative practices Master’s program is accepting applications. Deadline: April 15 2026.
Live Art Forms as a study program is organised along three axes, which in our research and practice manifest as conceptual threads. They do not form identifiable disciplines, genres, techniques or methods, but rather run through multiple ways of “making”. In our study plan they also form the open modules that structure our classes to render them “undisciplined”, cross-genre and de-gendered.
TECHNE is the open context of all acts of production that use tools and infrastructures This thread of studies is specifically concerned with contemporary, digital media and technologies that host and direct performative practices, such as computational tools, social networks, databases, algorithms, Mixed and Virtual Reality. However, pre-modern and pre-digital forms of language, artistic writing, and their theoretical foundations are part of reflecting the contemporary paradigm, that is itself increasingly understood in technological terms.
Classes along the axis of TECHNE as a module are taught by our faculty and Visiting Artist Technologists. In TECHNE we research and study techniques, processes, and theories that enable us to develop and deepen a cross-disciplinary and cross-media artistic practice on a variety of digital and web-based platforms. TECHNE fosters an expanded and holistic understanding of technologies and their applications in art and society that are elsewhere read as belonging to distinct disciplines or fields and are perceived as disconnected from each other.
Video by Ceren Su Çelik / Graphics by VOJD
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In the winter phase of LAF filmmaker Ester Bergsmark led a two day workshop on visual hapticality in film. Here are a few photos of us at work in the forest near the Akademie. Thank you Ester!
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