Participatory Performance
Live Performance with the participation of the audience and volunteers
Live performance with audience participation. In several works, the audience played an important role in the performance. During the performance itself, they also become actors and part of the live performance. The audience or people on the street were not informed beforehand. The performance works use components of social sculpture. There is usually a short discussion or question and answer session with the audience afterwards. An exception to this is the performance concept that I created for the Unnotice Art Festival.
Selection of "Connected" live performance session's
Art Space Festival, Bremerhaven, Germany
A Afternoon of Performance, Nu Nu Theater, Bristol, UK
Respublika! Festival, NeMe, Nicosia, Cyprus.
20th International Performance Festival OPEN, Hanover, Germany
4th Festival of Naked Forms / 4th Festival Nahých forem / FNAF Kasárna Karlín Studios, Prague, CZ
Unnoticed Art Festival - 2nd Nieuwstraat Festival, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Selection photos taken by performance volunteer Nico in the morning. Location Nieuwstraat, Dordrecht, NL
Selection photos taken by performance volunteer Inis in the evening. Location Nieuwstraat, Dordrecht, NL
The festival took placed on 19th of June 2021.The date is not announced to the public, neither to the artists who created the performances concepts. This non-announcement belongs to the festival concept.
The Nieuwstraat Festival fits in a series of Unnoticed Art Festivals. It balances on the line between public and private. It shows artworks hiding in normality. The language, used to express the works, fits in the average social behavior in public space and, because of that, remained unnoticed to bystanders. Passers-by will observe the actions, but may not recognize them as performance art.
Creating the concepts and executing the works are split. Artists send their concepts more or less as manuals. The chosen works are carried out by a group of (both experienced and inexperienced) volunteers.Creating the concepts and executing the works are split. Artists send their concepts more or less as manuals. The chosen works are carried out by a group of (both experienced and inexperienced) volunteers. These volunteers have a double roll. They are participants as well as audience. They are responsible for realizing the performances in the best possible way and, doing that, they fully experience the works. In fact they become part of it. This way the audience is not excluded but it is actually embedded.
My Performance Concept for the volunteers Nico and Ines
To document by photographic means objects lying on the ground in Nieuwstraat.The objects should not be permanently attached or fixed to the street level.
The objects which should be looked for includes everything what is movable. Among others dead inspects, dead birds, paper, plastic pieces, metal objects, feathers, leaf's, lose stones, broken glass, cigarettes stubs, garbage, mouth masks, blood stains and grease stains. Regardless how big or how small.