Venice, Veneto, Italy
- Since 2006 he has been collaborating together with his German partner Verena Stenke as VestAndPage in the field of Performance art and independent filmmaking, presenting their productions across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Holding lectures, seminars and practical workshops on the praxis of Performance art in academies, schools and cultural institutions. The last chapter of their experimental art film trilogy "sin∞fin The Movie", which combines Performance art with filmmaking, has been produced 2012 in Antarctica. - Art essayist, prose works and poetry writer, translator, journalist. - Contemporary art curator. Coordinating collateral art projects for several Venice Biennale and international exhibitions in Europe and North America. Currently curator of the live art exhibition project VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK (2012/2014). - Visual Art: his paintings, sculptures and installations have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous collections. - Social Theatre actor and playwright. Specialties: - Performance art, Live art, Visual art _Artist. - Performance art workshop _Facilitator. - Performance art and Contemporary art theory _Lecturer. - Performance art and Contemporary art projects _Conceiver and Curator. - Performance art / Experimental filmmaking (hybrid) _Idea maker and co-producer.
ANDREA PAGNES and VERENA STENKE have been working together since 2006, generating art in the mediums of live performance, filmmaking and writing, and as independent curators. Their practice is contextual, process-led, situation-responsive and conceived psycho-geographically in response to social contexts, natural surroundings, historical sites or architecture, hence unrepeatable and subdue to the given conditions. It examines notions of fragility, vulnerability and failure of the individual and the collective within different social or environmental spheres. Exploring what, as human beings, we still have to offer, VestAndPage question our existence within a humanity characterised by social exclusion and global atrocities. Demanding themselves to inspire others and animated by a nomadic, confrontational spirit, they apply the themes of acceptance, resistance, endurance and union with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. Between 2010-2012, VestAndPage produced the experimental art film trilogy "sin∞fin The Movie", a complex visual research realised during three years in Antarctica, South America and Asia, examining the relationship between performance art and filmmaking. They are the initiators and independent curatorial force behind projects such as the live art exhibition project Venice International Performance Art Week (2012/2014) and the on-going global art initiative FRAGILE global performance chain journey. VestAndPage collaborate with international theatre groups, cultural institutions and humanitarian organisations in production and education, presenting a methodological workshop series. Their writings have been published in various magazines and books of contemporary art among which Performance Research, Flash Art, Art&Education, Re-Tooling Residencies, Research Catalogue. Their book "The Fall of Faust - Considerations on Contemporary Art and Art Action" investigates the intimate tissue of creativity, questioning performance art as an urgency.
The independent live art exhibition project dedicated to contemporary performance art showcased in three editions works of over 120 international performance artists from around the globe. I "HYBRID BODY - POETIC BODY" (2012, European Cultural Centre, Venice) http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=106&lang=en II "RITUAL BODY - POLITICAL BODY" (2014, European Cultural Centre, Venice) http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=1&lang=en III "FRAGILE BODY - MATERIAL BODY" (2016, European Cultural Centre, Venice) http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=257&lang=en IV "CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY Prologue 1" (2017, European Cultural Centre, Venice) http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=400&lang=en