Festival Performa
MKC Maribor, Ljubljanska 4, SI-2000 Maribor
Phone386 (0) 2 300 2995
Organised byMKC Maribor Youth Culture Centre
Frequencyannual
Festival dates1.9.2015 - 5.9.2015
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History
The festival of performance art in Maribor has a long tradition. The first festival with the title Sen žice (Dreamwire) took place in 1993 under Beno Artnak, followed by four editions of Multicultural Week. In 2000, Tomaž Brenk took over the management of the festival, held for the first time as Performa. Performa was conceived as a different, bold festival of contemporary performing arts that focused on addressing home audiences through the prism of unconventional, for many even shocking multimedia and performing approaches and forms. Performa broke new ground in being different and, with its concept, provoked the emergence of similar festivals in Maribor and its immediate surroundings. After trying out different programme concepts in the years 2004-2009, the festival has redirected its focus a bit, yet still considered the primary vision of the festival: to show hybrid, multimedia, and experimental, mostly non-institutional art projects that test genre limits and seek new expressions and communications according to the tendencies present in the modern world.
Programme orientation
Performa's programme offers performances, video projections and installations, rearticulations of historical performance art events, premieres of videoperformances, lecture performances, street performances, installations, multimedia, literary, and music performances, and discussions with artists and cultural theorists. The organisers are interested in authors who develop a specific and individual language, even beyond the boundaries of a specific media, and are present in international areas through their works. Their (often hybrid) art forms are frequently presented in non-institutionalised venues and unconventional spaces.
Since 2008, Performa features a video section titled video:performa, which presents multimedia and video projects by independent artists, ambiental videoinstallations, and video performances.
In the frame of Performa, the collective Stegnar, Horvat & Family has been preparing since 2011 a series of lecture performances aimed at reflecting on the work of performance artists as well as establishing new connections and possible collaborations. The series has thus far hosted artists such as Katarina Stegnar, Mala Kline, Jaša, Primož Bezjak, Nataša Živković, Mare Bulc, Luka Prinčič, etc.
Partnering with Contemporary Dance Platform
2014 and 2015 editions of the festival have been prepared in collaboration with Contemporary Dance Platform, run by Plesna Izba Maribor, which focuses on presenting the work of younger dance makers.
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