LIVE WORKS - Free School of Performance

a project of Centrale Fies
curated by: Barbara Boninsegna (artistic director and founder of Centrale Fies) & Simone Frangi (researcher, critic and curator)

Deadline: March 29, 2024

Conceived in 2013 by Centrale Fies in collaboration with Viafarini, LIVE WORKS is a platform dedicated to contemporary live practices that contribute to the deepening and broadening of the notion of performance, following the current shift of the performative and its figures.

There will be 6 projects selected and each project will have:
● an annual fellowship of €3,000.00
● participation in the Kick Off Seminar on July 19-20-21, 2024, during the Live Works Summit 2024
● a 15-day individual residency at Centrale Fies
● a collective residency together with all selected projects, at Centrale Fies, in summer 2025 with presentation of the performances during the Live Works Summit 2025

The announcement is open to a wide range of performative actions, also including sound and new media arts, text-based performances, lecture performances, multimedia storytelling, choreographic practices, relational and workshop-based projects, and other projects questioning the idea of performativity beyond the body.
Artists and professionals from any geographic location and with no limits on age can enter the announcement, as individuals or in groups, with a single project. The open call only accepts unpublished or long-term projects that need to be developed and/or concluded, for which participation would represent an evolution of the project or its final chapter.