After the successful conduct of the first and the second Perform­ance Festival, the public’s positive response and how it contrib­uted to the spread of performance as an artistic expression and practice, the 3rd Festival is aiming to be an important project that will explore the concept and the development of performance, will instigate awareness and set down an indelible mark on the city.

The festival’s program include live performances which highlight the diverse elements that constitute the art of performance, master classes by artists participating in the festival and a workshop to be held a week before the opening of the Festival and will aim to broaden the relationship between performance and photography, as also the transition through the photographic lens. In addition, the Festival include an one day conference with theorists/ art his­torians and interventions by artists and participants of the Festival, experimental electronic music concerts and screenings of video performances. In addition, underlining the historical background of this artistic practice, the Festival make tributes to two major art figures that throughout their longtime artistic trajectories, they excelled in the area of performance.

Maria Jose Arjona, Ron Athey, Aymeric Hainaux, Clarice Lima, MaraM, Mohamed El Mahdaoui, Monali Meher,

Alexandros Plomaritis, Tamar Raban, Maria Sideri

Manuel Vason

TRIBUTE: Dimitris Alithinos

(lecture, re-enactments, video screenings)

SCREENINGS: VALIE EXPORT

Filippo Bert, Andres Galeano, Sarah Trouche, Mary Zygouri,

Performance Voyage by Artists’ Association MUU (Finland)-Annette Arlander, Filippo Berta, Trine Hylander, Essi Kausalainen, Mikey Mc Parlane & Michael Mallis, Maria Nikiforaki,

Anna Nykyri, Andreas Pashias, Dana Sederowsky, Surya Tuchler, Tracy Valcarcel, Eero Yli-Vakkuri

Documenting, archiving and curating performance art.

Academic Coordinator: Angeliki Avgitidou

Key note speakers: Adrian Heathfield & Manuel Vason

MASTERCLASSES: Aymeric Hainaux, Clarice Lima, Tamar Raban

S.A., Moni Lazariston Festival, Dynamo Project Space, Donopoulos International Fine Arts