In the modern and contemporary era, art has progressively extended its semiotic horizon, reaching large audiences, across societies and cultures, becoming more and more a globalized phenomenon.
The social distancing imposed by the events relating to the pandemic comes at a time when art is increasingly offering a terrain of social, intercultural and interdisciplinary aggregation.
In this webinar I will focus on how and why it is possible, and perhaps necessary, to curate and put in practice Performance Art, also in the context of social distancing, in the virtual meeting space of the world wide web.
Attending this seminar is limited by 20 participants. To learn the conditions for participation in a single seminar: apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org
About Francesco Kiais
Italian artist, independent art writer, and curator Francesco Kiàis is currently based in Athens. He is the founder and director of the initiative [mind the] G.A.P. - Gathering Around Performance, associate curator of the Venice International Performance Art Week, as well as a Scientific Collaborator at InArts Lab, University of Corfu, Department of Audio-visual Arts. Parallel to his artistic activity he has been invited in and out of Europe by several Universities and other institutions of international level to hold lectures and to lead or participate in roundtables on Performance Art, and on his own artistic research. He also leaded workshops for different educational programs focused on performance art, like Body and Citizenship (Athens School of Fine Arts), Transient Bodies (Open Space Contemporary and Open Dialogue Istanbul), Along and through - Paris Summer Academy (Micadanse and Oriane Theatre), besides his involvement as a facilitator in The Marathon – Performance Art Workshop (Berlin, Athens, Nicosia, Edmonton), or as a lecturer for Performance now (University of West Macedonia), or for the project hosted by the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Platformance.