"How can we really boost the recognition and reach of performance art, showing why it matters not just for museums but for society as a whole? What can it bring to communities, artists, and art institutions? And how can it create moments and spaces where different generations come together to connect, interact, and learn from each other? That’s exactly the goal of PIT—Perform, Inform, Transform."
Between 2024 and 2027, ‘Perform Inform Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums’ (PIT) will explore innovative forms of live activation between bodies and museums. Performances can nurture and deepen relationships between citizens and museums in Europe, proposing new paradigms for participatory and intergenerational dialogues. However, the production, circulation and presentation of performances also present challenges, raising various ethical, environmental, technical and artistic questions.
How can we amplify the recognition, mobility and visibility of performance art and its added value for museums and, more broadly, for society? What can it offer to communities, artists and art institutions? In what ways can performance art create spaces and moments of interaction and negotiation, bridging different generations of artists and citizens, from young people to the elderly?
Through newly commissioned performances, professional workshops, research activities, film screenings, or debates held across six European countries, PIT aims to address these questions and propose innovative ways to engage and activate our bodies in museum spaces.
The project has received a three-year grant from the EU Creative Europe Programme under its ‘Cooperation Project’ strand. Its primary partners are the Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels (Bozar – Belgium), Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg), CAC Contemporary Art Centre (Lithuania), Serralves Foundation (Portugal), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Spain), and Triennale Milano Teatro.
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