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Thou Twin of Slumber
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Alexis Avedisian
German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian artist, writer and curator Andrea Pagnes have been working together since 2006 as VestAndPage in Performance art, filmmaking, visual art, writing and as independent curators. Being among the most acclaimed representatives of contemporary performance art from Italy, their works, recordings and live performances have been shown extensively across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Their art originates from a here-and-now interpretation of the fragility of the individual and its surroundings, researching private, social and environmental spheres through precariousness, transformation, liminality, loss of control and authenticity. The socially or environmentally orientated live performances are primarily site-responsive and process-led, conceived psycho-geographically for architectures or in response to natural surroundings and historical sites. VestAndPage collaborate with international theater companies and social organizations in production and education, as recently for the street-children workshop project "Fear is Fear. Love is Love." in Mexico City. They hold methodological practical workshop series in institutions worldwide, working on memory activation and stimulation of the personal, inner library for creative use. Their theoretical investigations have been published in various books and magazines of contemporary art, and in the book "The Fall of Faust - Considerations on Contemporary Art and Art Action" by Andrea Pagnes. They have been active as independent curators and organizers, such as of the recent VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK and the on-going global art initiative "FRAGILE global performance chain journey". Between 2010-2012, VestAndPage produced the experimental art film trilogy "sin∞fin The Movie" in Antarctica, India, Kashmir, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, combining the ephemeral art form of Performance with filmmaking.
VestAndPage create profoundly poetic images that sometimes appear as allegories, and other times stripped off all pretension, being confronting in what they show. There's cruelty crowned by the sober aesthetics of beauty in form and content, expressed through actions that seem disquietudes of existence, from the depth of being. VestAndPage's investigation leads to the essence: to reveal this vital impulse, which gives movement to the body. To be conscious of that divine spark that lights up for a moment giving life to movement. To be a testimony. Where does it come from? Where does it lead us? It comes from mystery. A strong state of humility has to turn flesh from within, to carry towards this. The content of VestAndPage's work reveals mystery, it is the fruit of knowledge of oneself, and this gives breath through art. -- Ana Alexandra Moreno, Caracas (2012)
www.vest-and-page.de | www.sinfin-themovie.de | www.veniceperformanceart.org
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: VelaPhelan
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: VelaPhelan
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Kim Napoli
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Kim Napoli
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Daniel DeLuca mobius
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Alexis Avedisian
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Daniel DeLuca mobius
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Daniel DeLuca mobius
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Daniel DeLuca mobius
VestAndPage: Thou Twin of Slumber 2013 Ndpae photo: Phil Fryer