AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Call for Application

PANic 3 - Performance as Documentation
Who performs (live) is inevitably confronted with the issue of
documentation. Still, photography and video, are the main mediums in terms
of the documentation of live performances. However, shortcomings result in
the translation of the live event to another medium, whether digital or
analog type. The complexity of various performances can not just be
preserved by saving the visual and auditory moments. Therefore, many artists
understand the documentation not only as a preservation of a past event, but
give a new and important meaning to the documentation itself. Exactly at
this point, our interest starts. If the circuit of documentation is not
stopped in the need for preservation, but gets into a self-sufficient
process, the documentation becomes the protagonist and the protagonist will
turn into another performer. Either the performative work is inseparable
from its documentation - or the documentation is an independent part that is
able to create a new presence.

For the purposes of the One-Night-Show "PANic 3 - Performance as
Documentation" organized by the Vienna Performance Art Network (PAN Vienna)
we are looking for live performances, which
a. transform theories on documentation of performance artistically.
b. use a true or fictional narrative to represent their performance.
c. have the issue of documentation as a necessity or contingency as a part
of the performance.
Four performances will presented during the One-night-show "PANic 3 -
Performance as Documentation" in September 2011 in Vienna. Artist
Remuneration, travel allowance and accommodation will be paid.
Please send your proposals incl. 2-3 work samples till July 5th 2011 by
email to:
twgeiger@gmx.net or veronika.merklein@gmail.com
For further informationen: http://pan-vienna.at/
(only German version available yet)
Concept and Curating:
Veronika Merklein & Thomas Geiger

Performance Art Network Vienna:
PAN Vienna is an organization from artists for artists and artistic
discourse.
PAN Vienna aims an evolving debate with the strategies of artistic work, e.g
through the quarter events "PANic".
PAN Vienna addresses an artistic and scientific audience as well as an art
interested public.
PAN Vienna supports work relations and exchange between performance artists.
PAN Vienna sustains the public presence of Performance and Performance Art
in Vienna.

from Franklin Furnace