PERFORMANCY FORUM

PERFORMANCY FORUM is a clustering, condensing, and critical effort comprising interdisciplinary exhibitions (emphasis on performance art, social practices, and participatory/publicly engaged work), workshops, conferences, actions, events, and more.

PERFORMANCY FORUM began in 2009 as a project of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) while the collective was in residence at Surreal Estate. It has since become an open project, collaborating with spaces, sites, curatorial collectives, and many others to:

1.) Forge IN-PERSON relationships (including collaborations) between artists from different artistic mediums and micro-communities.

2.) Perform collective research, including drawing of parallels between current performance and social practices and attempts to locate them within historic, economic, socio-political, and aesthetic contexts.

3.) Provide a site (physical or cognitive) for complex and critical thought beyond academic and other institutional parameters, for political and cultural organization amongst artists, and for experimentation with modes, methods, and mediums in conjunction with concrete practice.

4.) Involve publics of ‘artists’ and ‘non-artists’ alike in constructive, collective, and critical analysis and debate of artistic operation.

Sometimes a simple evening of performances, sometimes a mix of panels, artist talks, and discussions, PEFORMANCY FORUMS have taken place at Surreal Estate (PF I-XI), University of the Streets, BOB the Pavilion, during SUPERFRONT Public Summer at Industry City, Vaudeville Park, and elsewhere.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS–
If you are interested in applying to perform at the PERFORMANCY FORUM please e-mail an inquiry to Esther and Brian at panoplylab@gmail.com with a bio/CV, description of proposed work, and any links (video is best) that would help us understand what you do. Due to the number of queries received, please be patient, it may take us two-to-three weeks to respond….