There is not one way of doing performance but many.
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We are very happy to finally be able to write to you again. Nowadays, we are all flooded with information and content. Maybe it is a good moment to return to slow reading and slow writing - without creating images and texts for the algorithm or following the ever-shifting rules of Instagram.
Our control as viewers is becoming more and more limited. We are offered new content all the time, yet we stop seeing what we truly want or like. We get bored quickly, and it is easy to get caught in an infinite scroll, flooding our minds with overstimulation. Old-fashioned emails, somehow, remain slightly outside of this system. Of course, they can still land in spam or get lost among many other messages, but they also create a different kind of space.
At the same time, we cannot ignore that the current situation in the arts is challenging. With sadness, we witness festivals, galleries, and even academies closing due to a lack of funding. It does not matter that some of these places existed for decades, becoming important points on the art map. The money simply flows elsewhere.
However, history also reminds us that creating art is essential, especially in times of crisis. As is connecting with others in person, supporting small initiatives, attending festivals, and even leaving small traces online - a like, a share, a comment.
As artists, we are still a relatively small community. There is not one way of doing performance art, but many. There is also not only one way of supporting the arts. For PAS, building a community has always been a crucial point. We want to bring together artists of different ages, backgrounds, and nationalities. We mix and compose our ideas and creativity in this shared space of performance art - a kind of hot pot where different elements meet. And somewhere in this process, we can hear a soft, pleasant sizzling sound of togetherness. Maybe this is also why staying in touch feels so important to us.
We would still like to write to you about our plans, thoughts, and discoveries. Next PAS | Studies is coming up in less than a month and you can still apply to join us. This time, we will focus on urban interventions, working in the city of Plzeň in Czechia. Is there a better way to get to know a place than through performance and direct interaction with its spaces?
We’ll share more about the workshops below, along with a few things we found worth passing on.
Let’s stay in touch!
Coming Soon in Czechia
If we are lost in a city, we usually take out our phone, check our location, type the place where we want to end up and simply follow the proposed route. Reaching the destination often becomes more important than the way itself. We follow the lines on the map and move through the urban labyrinth accordingly.
In this course we will explore the city of Plzeň differently.
The term site-specific describes artistic production in close relation to a particular place. But site-specific describes more than simply being somewhere. It is a working method – a way of researching.
During the course we will move through this environment as observers, listeners and performers. Through walks, exercises, discussions and artistic experiments we will investigate how a site can influence performative action and how performance can respond to the conditions of a place.
Knock, Knock! Are you coming?
Early bird deadline: 28 April 2026
Application deadline: 8 May 2026
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, meaning that studies may fill up before the closing date.
Food for thoughts
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3 minute read: A plea for embodied art education: 9 good reasons why performance art should be included in art teacher training and pedagogical practice.
20 minute read: The Idea Wasn’t Invited, But It Came Anyway: Lisa-Marie Porst in conversation with BBB Johannes Deimling.
Thank you for taking your time. With this email, we wanted to try something a bit different - more personal, less complex. Let us know what you think about this form, and if there’s anything you’d like to see more (or less) of, or if you have any other wishes when it comes to what we share here.
Monika & Johannes