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Presenting one of the associated curators of DigiLiveAiR – Digital & Live Artist-in-Residences: EntrAxis | Verena Stenke (@vestandpage ) About the curator | Verena Stenke (she/they) is a German artist, curator, and researcher focused on site-responsive performance art and film. They have collaborated with polar, subterranean, clinical, military, volcanic, and other critical environments, producing and exhibiting work worldwide. They are a lecturer in performance practice and artistic research at ArtEZ University of the Arts and Accademia Unidee. Together with Andrea Pagnes, as VestAndPage, they are the founders and artistic directors of @veniceperformanceartweek . About EntrAxis | EntrAxis refers to the connective space between spaces—a changeable field within a fluid network of intersecting axes. The non-profit cultural association promotes the production and research of performance art, art film, and conceptual art as social practices. Its process-oriented activities focus on intersectional spaces of encounter to address the challenges of our time. EntrAxis understands art as a primary poetic practice of participation, social inclusion, and tolerance. 〰️ 💥 About DigiLiveAir 💥 Discover more through the dedicated content on @performanceartvideo ‘s Instagram profile - Credits: Image by Fenia Kotsopoulou (@feniakotsopoulou )

We are pleased to announce the beginning of the DigiLiveAiR project, commissioning 4 Digital Artist-in-Residences with 12 new artists during 2026! A project by @performanceartvideo , created in collaboration with 5 European non-profit partners and their curators: EntrAxis | Verena Stenke @vestandpage NURT | Ostap Manulyak @soundsfrombehindtheabsentwalls @ecc_performanceart | Anja Foerschner @untitled.tbilisi | @sabrina_bellenzier & @giorgi.rodionov Studio Contemporaneo Co-funded by the European Union, the digital side of the project is commissioning artists to develop new performance-for-camera art works - 12 new art works in total, 3 for each association - selected through open calls focused on specific themes: social inclusion, gender equality, climate change, and the promotion of justice and peace. During the residencies, artists will collaborate with curators to create new performance-based works, premiering at @veniceperformanceartweek in Venice (Italy) in December 2026, and later featured on PAV. Stay tuned to discover more about the project, curators and artists!

#ArtistOfTheMonth ▶️ WATCH ON PAV > ‘The Stillness We Carry’ by @apsi_ashok The Stillness We Carry is a performance-based film by Aparna that explores the tension between societal expectation and personal autonomy. Drawing from lived experience, the work confronts the inherited burdens of tradition, culture, and gender, asking: What does it mean to bear a legacy you did not choose? Filmed in the ruins of the 17th-century Alamparai Fort on the outskirts of Chennai, the site—once a thriving hub of empire and trade—now stands as a crumbling monument to the passage of time. This abandoned space becomes both setting and metaphor for the emotional erosion caused by generational pressure. Through its poetic structure, the film meditates on the fragility of human agency within systems of power, inviting viewers into a liminal space where restraint and resistance coexist. The Stillness We Carry offers an immersive reflection on autonomy, entrapment, and the elusive possibility of transcendence. - Reel by @juanmascia - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

#ArtistOfTheMonth Thrilled to welcome the newest artist on the PAV platform: @apsi_ashok ! Aparna is a performance artist based in Chennai, India. Her work responds to the societal pressures placed on women, particularly within South Asian contexts, exploring themes of autonomy, identity, and cultural expectation. She confronts the tension between personal agency and inherited narratives. She works across performance, photography, and video, drawing from her cultural heritage and global experiences to reflect on how the body becomes a site of negotiation—between duty and desire, silence and expression. In 2024, Aparna showcased her work at the MAXXI Museum in Rome as part of RUFA University’s Summer Lab – Performing Rome, followed by the Posthuman – Body, Ecology and Technology Festival in Odisha and Body Furia Festival in Barcelona. In 2025, she was part of a performance festival with the Possible Futures Collective at the Hyderabad Literary Festival and participated in Arcane Portals, an intensive co-creation with Vest&Page, presented as part of Future Ritual: CEREMONY. Aparna holds a BA in Visual Arts from Stella Maris College, Chennai, and an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, London. Her practice continues to evolve through workshops and collaborative projects that examine the friction between tradition and agency, personal narrative and collective expectation. - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

📢 #OPENCALL | Systems in Question: Live Art Residency Part of Lines of Flight, CASA’s multi-arts programme at Brixton House. Systems in Question is the June-July strand of CASA’s Lines of Flight programme at Brixton House, exploring how power operates through rules, permissions and infrastructures that organise public life - shaping who gets access, how we move, gather and are governed. At its centre is a Live Art Residency, develop in collaboration with Performance Art Video (PAV), with support from Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and IKLECTIK. We invite applications from London-based Latin American/Latinx, Caribbean and diasporic artists and collectives with ties to these heritages, working across live and hybrid practices, to develop a bold new work-in-progress for public presentation. The residency includes, £1000 artist fee + £800 towards production, research and desk space at LADA, studio development at Brixton House, mentoring support from IKLECTIK, and culminates in a public presentation on Sat 4 Jul 2026. We are particularly interested in practices that examine social protocols, institutional structures, public space, surveillance, or the ways bodies are regulated, controlled, or made visible in different contexts. We also welcome proposals that approach these questions from a more intimate perspective, exploring how larger social and political systems are felt, negotiated, or resisted through the body, behaviour, relationships, and everyday experience. 🗓️ The residency will take place from 1 June to 4 July 2026 🔗 Visit CASA’s site to find out more. Link in bio. 
‼️ Application deadline: 2 May 2026, 23:59 BST
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 - Credits
Presented by @casafestival_ at @brxhousetheatre 
In collaboration with @performanceartvideo 
With support from @thisisliveart and @iklectikartlab Curated and produced by Gabriela Román González (@gabriela_rglez )
Delivery lead (PAV): Laurenz Agustín Argüello (@arguelloagu )
Advisory (LADA): Mary Osborn (@mary_osborn ) and kane stonestreet 
Mentoring (IKLECTIK): Dyana Gravina (@dygravina ) Image credit: VestAndPage, STRATA. Photo by Daz Disley.

//OPEN CALL - DIGILIVE AIR// Digital art residency 📌 deadline - May 15, 2026 As part of the Creative Europe project DigiLiveAiR, we are looking forward to commission three artists or artist groups from the South Caucasus based in a Creative Europe country to develop performance-based movies that research gender equality through an anti-colonial, time-traveling perspective. We are looking for new works that involve critical, poetic or research-led explorations through body-based performance art, where the body becomes a living vessel to reclaim the past as a research lab for the future. At this crossroads, the present serves as a site of resistance, where to dream speculative futures rooted in ancestral realities. Selected artists will develop their works within a digital artist residence curated by @sabrina_bellenzier and @giorgi.rodionov / @untitled.tbilisi in the period from June - October 2026. The resulting films will be showcased in a public exhibition at the @veniceperformanceartweek in Italy in December 2026, and become part of the online platform @performanceartvideo . 📌Commission: EUR 2900 for the creation of a new original performance-based film 📌Eligibility: Artists or artists groups from the South Caucasus based in a Creative Europe programme country 📌Runtime: June 15 - October 15 / 2026 To apply visit our link in bio! Photo of the poster - @giorgi.rodionov //DigiLiveAiR// DigiLiveAiR is co-funded by the European Union, and promotes inclusion, participation, and reflection through performance art in hybrid mode. A collaboration between @performanceartvideo , EntrAxis e.V., Studio Contemporaneo, NURT and @untitled.tbilisi #OpenCalls #digitalartistinresidence #performanceart #performancebasedfilm #experimentalfilm

#PAVInterviews | “Performance art is the moment of truth.” — Anja Foerschner We sit down with Anja Foerschner to ask a simple but powerful question: What does performance art mean to you? Listen to the interview and hear about her experience. Now it’s your turn: What does it mean to you? Share your thoughts in the comments. - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

PAV is thrilled to present Anja Foerschner, @performanceartvideo Associate Curator.💥 She is an art historian and curator of contemporary art, with a focus on feminist art, performance art, and art from Eastern Europe. Anja is the director of @ecc_performanceart and a lecturer at ArtEZ University’s Home of Performance Practices in the Netherlands. - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

#BreakingNews 💥 A new chapter begins for @performanceartvideo and our precious partners! We are proud to announce that PAV has been awarded the Creative Europe (@creative.eu ) funding for an exciting new international cooperation project! Developed in collaboration with a brilliant consortium of friends @veniceperformanceartweek , NURT (@mykhaylobarabash_art @rhaideichuk @yarynashumska @soundsfrombehindtheabsentwalls ), @untitled.tbilisi , @eccperformanceart under the artistic direction of @vestandpage — this initiative marks an important step forward for our shared commitment to Performance Art. The funding will support DigiLiveAiR – Digital Live Artists-in-Residence, a new project continuing the path of DigiLabAir, launched in 2023. The initiative promotes inclusion, diversity, and participation through Performance and Live Art, introducing innovative hybrid residencies that combine online and in-person formats while fostering inclusive, sustainable, and digitally enabled artistic practices. The project will include four Digital Artists-in-Residence (online), a Co-Creation Artist-In-Residency (live) coupled with a final Live Art event and exhibition presented within the framework of the 10th anniversary of the Venice International Performance Art Week @veniceperformanceartweek , presenting both digital and live works produced during the AiR programmes. We are beyond grateful for the support and encouragement from Creative Europe and look forward to sharing more about this exciting year ahead. Stay tuned for updates and upcoming open calls — this is just the beginning! - Image Credit: Petra Kuppers @petraturtledisco , “Terrestrial Crip Drift: Venice”, DigiLabAir / Venice International Performance Art Week 2023. - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

#ArtistOfTheMonth ▶️ WATCH ON PAV > ‘Libations’ by @eloiscalabrese Libations explores nourishment and the act of being nourished through fluids, as a direct and constant connection with nature. It reflects a need for a deeper bond with the Earth and with natural elements, even in their most raw and violent forms. The work expresses a desire for connection with the Earth and its elements, including the most intense and untamed ones. This impulse stems from a deep sense of fear toward the social dynamics that shape everyday life, within which the subject perceives themselves as a voluntary slave. It also conveys a need to dig and search for the truth of existence. - Reel by @juanmascia - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

#ArtistOfTheMonth ▶️ WATCH ON PAV > ‘Lithos’ by @eloiscalabrese Lithos is a performance without time limitations, investigating the universal condition of collective blindness. The mask worn by the artist symbolizes voluntary servitude to internalized social norms—deeply ingrained beliefs that make us blind to the blood and pain we perpetuate daily. Drawing on the reflections of Byung-Chul Han, the work exposes how social and cultural structures shape perception, judgment, and action. Lithos challenges viewers to confront conditioned vision, deconstruct internalized narratives, and acknowledge individual responsibility. Performed at the artist’s discretion, each iteration transforms gestures into a critical reflection on perception, power, and the invisible dynamics that govern society. - Reel by @juanmascia - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange

#ArtistOfTheMonth Thrilled to welcome the newest artist on the PAV platform: @eloiscalabrese ! 💥 Eloisa investigates existential reality, personal identity, ecofeminism, the limits of pain, and pressing social and political issues through performance art, immersive installations, poetry, and project-based works. An alumna of Marta Jovanovic and the Marina Abramović Institute, and a collaborator with Abel Azcona, she has performed at The Over Gallery in Barcelona; Sigismondo Castromediano Museum in Lecce; ex RUFA Space and MAXXI in Rome; the International Festival of Revolutionary Poetry 2024 in Bari; and the Bari International Gender Festival, X edition. A student of Psychology with a master’s in Art Psychology, Eloisa has published the essay “Attempted Approaches and Reflections on Performance Art in the Era of the Crisis of Narrative” and is a co-founder of the Retroguard of the Concrete movement. Stay tuned for upcoming content showcasing her groundbreaking works! - Watch and support art! By subscribing to PAV, you gain unlimited access to performance art videos on our platform. A portion of your subscription fee will be donated to the artists. 🔗 Link in bio to subscribe! - #PerformanceArtVideo #PerformanceArt #Wetrustinchange