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Performance Matters Journal

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

Dialogue of Memories

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 

  • Cinematic Festival, Ancona (IT) Preview and Q&A, October 27, 2022

  • Sommerbühne am Blautopf, Blaubeuren (DE) Preview and Q&A, August, 03, 2023

  • Stockholm City Film Festival, Stockholm (SE) Official Selection November 2023

  • Infinite Present Festival, Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana (SI), Gallery preview, January 25, 2024

  • Altered States Festival, De Regentes Theatre, Den Haag (NL) Premiere screening, February 2, 2024

  • 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

  • Volkshochschule, Neckarsulm (DE), Gallery preview, March 1, 2024, 19:00

  • Festival de Largos y Cortos de Santiago, Santiago de Chile (CL), March 2, 2024

  • University of Applied Arts - Angewandte Performance Laboratory, Vienna (AT),  ⁠March 15, 2024, 20:00

  • San Antonio Independent Film Festival, TeatroCine Sebastián Cordero Espinosa, Ibbara (EC), March 19-22, 2024

  • Butohpolis Festival, Warsaw (PL), May 13, 2024

  • Boden International Film Festival, Boden (SE), May 15, 2024

  • Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Mannheim (DE), 2024

  • Montreal Independent Film Festival, Montreal (CA), 2024

  • International Migration & Environmental Film Festival, Toronto (CA) / ONLINE, October 9-15, 2024

  • 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

  • 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.

www.vest-and-page.de

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.

www.vest-and-page.de

Fenia Kotsopoulou.jpg

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

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