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Intensive Workshop with Ron Athey & Michele Occelli
Deep dive into the practices of hypnosis, trance movement, mortification of the flesh and pageantry that have informed Ron Athey’s legendary works.
11 - 15 November, Peckham
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Intensive Workshop with gustaf broms
Explore London’s hidden stories, restless energies and feral undersides through performance art action.
11 - 15 November, Peckham
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VestAndPage
VestAndPage are Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, who have been working together nomadically since 2006 in collaborative performance art and film. Their works are contextual and situation-responsive and embody ecological, philosophical and queer thought.
Focusing on art's ritual and liminal nature, collective memory, imaginings, and transcorporeal and psychoterratic states, they have produced collaborative performance-based art in Antarctic, subterranean, military and other extreme environments. In a psychogeography of symbiotic realms, they move between embodiment and research, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed.
Focusing on art's ritual and liminal nature, collective memory, imaginings, and transcorporeal and psychoterratic states, they have produced collaborative performance-based art in Antarctic, subterranean, military and other extreme environments. In a psychogeography of symbiotic realms, they move between embodiment and research, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed.
To create new myths, narratives and archetypes, they activate memory and uncover layers of information and imagery stored in the human body, psyche, spirit, and environment. Their works have been presented at numerous sites and in theatres, museums, galleries and cinemas worldwide, in differing formats from month-long performance walks over 5-days to 24-hour performances.
They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers.
They share their methodology on collaborative performance and filmmaking in master classes and have been visiting artists and lecturers at art academies worldwide.
https://www.vest-and-page.de
They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers.
They share their methodology on collaborative performance and filmmaking in master classes and have been visiting artists and lecturers at art academies worldwide.
https://www.vest-and-page.de
Bio updated in April 2025.
VestAndPage, BREATHE FEAR IN. BREATHE GOLD OUT., Future Ritual, 2025. Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.