Performance Art, or Live Art as it is sometimes referred to, is the act of doing. It is not re-doing or re-enacting. Performance Art is action and communication. Artists have often turned to performance as a way to break down traditional categories—to test new ideas and find new directions—or to rejuvenate their creative practice.

Participants will conceive of and create a series of performance works. Art will be a process, not a goal. Paradox, ambivalence, ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty will be encouraged.*

This Focussed Mentorship will focus on elements such as body, space, time and materiality. Project topics will range from autobiographical narratives to political issues affecting the body—sexuality, ethnicity, health, ecology, government intervention, ritual and magic. The Focussed Mentorship will appeal to those who are willing to blur the distinctions between art and life.

The time together will focus on an art practice of discovery, exploring the unknown and devising actions as experiments in order to learn something that you don’t already know.

*Encouraged: to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope.