Live Works Vol. 2 is a prize dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance

Live Works Performance Act Award Vol. 2
a Centrale Fies project in collaboration with Viafarini DOCVA

Deadline: 29 April 2014

Curated by Barbara Boninsegna, Simone Frangi, Denis Isaia

A performative act is a real action that modifies the real.
Live Works Vol. 2 is a prize dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance. The competition 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 projects, experience design, fashion design and relational urbanism.

The languages of performance art redesigned through the lens of performative acts. And vice versa.

Call
Artists and practitioners from any geographic location can enter the competition, as individuals or in groups, with a single project. The competition only accepts unpublished or long-term projects that need to be developed and/or concluded, for which participation would represent a continuing or final chapter. The nine projects selected by Live Works will be invited to participate in a production residency at Centrale Fies from 1 to 10 July, during which they will be awarded a budget of 500 EUR to produce their performance.

The production of the performance projects during the residency will be supported by diverse types of curatorship, from theoretical to technical development. During the residency phase, Centrale Fies will provide a technician and a production manager to assist the artists as they develop the selected projects. The residency program will feature three collective critical sessions (3 July—6 July—9 July), each one focusing on three of the projects developed for the award. A conversational program devoted to the theoretical underpinning of the broad notions of performance and performativity will be activated through informal gatherings, assessing theory and knowledge production as forms of actions.

The critical sessions and the conversational program will be carried out by the curatorial team and Daniel Blanga-Gubbay. The residency phase is an essential part of the development of the competition and the selected projects.

The performances produced will be presented during Skillbuilding - 34th edition of the Drodesera Festival of Performing Arts (28–30 July). The finalists' presentation sessions will be introduced every day by a guest performance.

Jury
On this occasion, the nine finalists will be evaluated by a jury who will select the winner. The Live Works jury is composed by Giorgio Agamben, philosopher (president); Jiri Kovanda, artist; Antonio Marras, fashion designer; Daniel Blanga Gubbay, researcher in political philosophy for the arts, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf; Cristiano Seganfreddo, cultural producer, general manager, Associazione Progetto Marzotto and scientific director of Corriere Innovazione; Barbara Boninsegna, Centrale Fies artistic director; Simone Frangi, Viafarini DOCVA artistic director; and Denis Isaia, curator MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto.

The winning artist will be offered the possibility of an additional residency phase at Centrale Fies and a 1000 EUR prize (net).

Press conference
On 29 March at 11:30am, the second edition of Live Works - Performance Act Award will be presented during a press conference at DOCVA - Documentation Center of Visual Arts (Fabbrica del Vapore, Via Giulio Cesare Procaccini 4 - Milan) in the frame of The Spring Awakening program of Miart 2014.


Info
For further information, competition announcement and application form.