PUBLICATIONS
STRATA: The Research Process in the Making of a Performance-Based Film
By Andrea Pagnes, Douglas Quin, Verena Stenke, daz disley
9(1-2) 2023: Performing Practice-Based Research, ISSN 2369-253744
Ralf Peter's 12-hour durational voice performance from dusk till dawn on the summer solstice at Sirgenstein cave is now accessible as a complete sound recording on Soundcloud. Ralf's thoughts on this experience are collected on his website.
SCREENINGS
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Cinematic Festival, Ancona (IT) Preview and Q&A, October 27, 2022
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Sommerbühne am Blautopf, Blaubeuren (DE) Preview and Q&A, August, 03, 2023
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Stockholm City Film Festival, Stockholm (SE) Official Selection November 2023
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Infinite Present Festival, Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana (SI), Gallery preview, January 25, 2024
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Altered States Festival, De Regentes Theatre, Den Haag (NL) Premiere screening, February 2, 2024
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4bid Gallery | Ventilator Cinema//OT301, Amsterdam (NL), Film screening, Meet the Artists and Exhibition of audio art, visuals and artefacts generated as part of the collaborative making of the film STRATA, February 14-17, 2024
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Volkshochschule, Neckarsulm (DE), Gallery preview, March 1, 2024, 19:00
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Festival de Largos y Cortos de Santiago, Santiago de Chile (CL), March 2, 2024
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University of Applied Arts - Angewandte Performance Laboratory, Vienna (AT), March 15, 2024, 20:00
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San Antonio Independent Film Festival, TeatroCine Sebastián Cordero Espinosa, Ibbara (EC), March 19-22, 2024
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Butohpolis Festival, Warsaw (PL), May 13, 2024
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Boden International Film Festival, Boden (SE), May 15, 2024
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Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Mannheim (DE), 2024
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Montreal Independent Film Festival, Montreal (CA), 2024
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International Migration & Environmental Film Festival, Toronto (CA) / ONLINE, October 9-15, 2024
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Museum of Prehistory, Blaubeuren (DE), as part of the exhibition Ice Age Creatures - Modern Perspectives on Ice Age Art, November 15, 2024 until January 12, 2025
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European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), multichannel video installation, Venice International Performance Art Week, December 12-15, 2024
VESTANDPAGE
Since 2006, German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian-born artist and writer Andrea Pagnes have been working together as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects.
VestAndPage have been devoted to experimental performance-based filmmaking to examine the evolution from original documentation of performative acts toward non-linear storytelling. They produce films as direct and visceral performances, which happen in response to critical environments "familiar as a dream" (London City Nights), such as polar glaciers, dormant vulcanoes, underground cave systems or in military enclaves. Stenke and Pagnes use non-invasive equipment, working alone or with a small team. In a constant search through a reflexive mode for new images of interior landscapes, they consider the world their studio and host: they do not go to a place to tell a story but to find its story. They explore “thin places”: locations-in-between, where the veil between different temporalities, occurrences and stories is porous. To perform in these thresholds where the visible blends with the invisible, they apply a psychogeographical approach to activate memory and uncover layers of information and imagery stored in the human and beyond-human.
Working on performance art’s liminal, spectral and ritual nature, in an ongoing poetics of relations, they apply endurance, sublimation and risk-taking with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. They consider performance-based filmmaking an artistic practice that serves the body’s capacity to generate situated and embodied knowledge, convey meanings and shape concepts of intimate archiving. For them, film can delude space-time, open the unconscious as a resourceful vessel, and reveal processes and relations by linking apparently disconnected human and beyond-human bodies, sites and happenings.
They also commit to film as a mnemonic and archive and produce conversations and interviews on existential topics with inspiring people from the arts, culture and science. Since 2010, they have produced three feature-length films, a silent film, a trilogy of shorts, two shorts and numerous interview series and art videos. In 2020, they published their Manifesto on performance-based filmmaking: Poetics of Relations on the Journal of Embodied Research as a video article.
They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their artistic research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers. They share their methodology as lecturers and mentors worldwide.
For STRATA, they are responsible as artistic directors, producers, writers, and performers.
VESTANDPAGE
Since 2006, German artist Verena Stenke (she/they) and Venetian-born artist and writer Andrea Pagnes (he/him) have been working together as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects.
VestAndPage have been devoted to experimental performance-based filmmaking to examine the evolution from original documentation of performative acts toward non-linear storytelling. They produce films as direct and visceral performances, which happen in response to critical environments "familiar as a dream" (London City Nights), such as polar glaciers, dormant vulcanoes, underground cave systems or in military enclaves. Stenke and Pagnes use non-invasive equipment, working alone or with a small team. In a constant search through a reflexive mode for new images of interior landscapes, they consider the world their studio and host: they do not go to a place to tell a story but to find its story. They explore “thin places”: locations-in-between, where the veil between different temporalities, occurrences and stories is porous. To perform in these thresholds where the visible blends with the invisible, they apply a psychogeographical approach to activate memory and uncover layers of information and imagery stored in the human and beyond-human.
Working on performance art’s liminal, spectral and ritual nature, in an ongoing poetics of relations, they apply endurance, sublimation and risk-taking with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. They consider performance-based filmmaking an artistic practice that serves the body’s capacity to generate situated and embodied knowledge, convey meanings and shape concepts of intimate archiving. For them, film can delude space-time, open the unconscious as a resourceful vessel, and reveal processes and relations by linking apparently disconnected human and beyond-human bodies, sites and happenings.
They also commit to film as a mnemonic and archive and produce conversations and interviews on existential topics with inspiring people from the arts, culture and science. Since 2010, they have produced three feature-length films, a silent film, a trilogy of shorts, two shorts and numerous interview series and art videos. In 2020, they published their Manifesto on performance-based filmmaking: Poetics of Relations on the Journal of Embodied Research as a video article.
They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their artistic research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers. They share their methodology as lecturers and mentors worldwide.
For STRATA, they are responsible as artistic directors, producers, writers, and performers.
Photograph by Fenia Kotsopoulou
ARTISTS
Aldo Aliprandi Sound
Marianna Andrigo Movement
Balaustio Costume design
Andreas Bauer Kanabas Classical bass
Anguezomo Mba Bikoro Performance
Giorgia de Santi Performance
daz disley Lighting Director, Cinematography
Francesca Fini Performance
Nicola Fornoni Performance
LA SAULA Performance
Stephan Knies Violin
Fenia Kotsopoulou Performance, Visuals, Cinematography
Boris Nieslony Performance
Ralf Peters Performance
Aisha Pagnes Sound
Enok Ripley Performance
Sara Simeoni Performance
Marcel Sparmann Performance, Production Assistance
VestAndPage Performance, Directors, Producers, Writers, Editors
Susanne Weins Performance
Douglas Quin Sound design, Audio arts
PYUR Electronic music
Woob Electronic music
PRESS
Schwäbische Zeitung, "Performancekunst triftt Archäologie" (August 11, 2023)
Heilbronner Stimme, "Das Künstlerpaar VestAndPage produziert einen Performance-Film" (March 2021)
Südwest Presse, "Dreharbeiten mit Künstlerduo – Cosmo-Hase erforscht die Unterwelt" (April 2021)
Südwest Presse, "Von Kunst und Zeit im Ur-Opernhaus" (May 2021)
Schwäbische Zeitung, "Hohle Fels: Wenn Kunst auf Wissenschaft trifft" (May 2021)
Südwest Presse, "Magische Momente überm Blautopf" (June 2021)
Augsburger Allgemeine, "Schweben über dem Blautopf - wie ein Wasservogel" (June 2021)
Schwäbische Zeitung, "Hier schwebt eine Frau über dem Blautopf" (June 2021)
Regio-TV, "Luftakrobatik über dem Blautopf: Kunstfilm entsteht in der Region" (June 2021)
ARD, SWR Landesschau Baden-Württemberg (June 8, 2021)
Südwest Presse, "Hochkultur in tiefen Höhlen" (July 2021)