Selected Interviews (2009-2015)
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
The exposition consists of 5 selected interviews given by VestAndPage on Performance art issues and their artistic activity:
1. For eBENT by Carlos Pina, 2009
2. For CIPAF by Karolina Lambrou, 2013
3. For IPA by Hatice Utkan, 2013
4. For VIVO/VOD by Jeremy Todd, 2014
5. For PERFORMANCE IS ALIVE by Quinn Dukes, 2015
Reconfiguring Think Tanks as a discursive, social model in contemporary art | Residencies as places of continuity, mutuality, free thinking and independent research
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
In general, art contains in itself a revolutionary quid, as the artist - through his/her work - provides an opportunity to look at the world in a different way from that to which one was used. The art has a function of perceptive awakening and therefore of sensorial activation. This is revolutionary, because it can change your perception of life that you have had up to that time. Out of this perspective, to reconsider artist in residencies as not mere hosting institutional containers, but as laboratories of continuative production of thoughts and ideas, might also reinforce the concept that a work of art is thus the end result of a specific process – possessing specific forms and aesthetic, and that it serves no purpose except that of channelling a very specific form of energy. It’s always a sort of communicative performance. It allows man to plumb his/her own conscience and to void it, as it’s only within empty spaces that energy can unleash its creative force. For it, it is required great effort and care not just from the artist who's temporarily involved, but from the ones who run the artist in residencies themselves.
SPACED, Art Out Of Place
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
The experiences of the Free University of Liverpool and
the CyberMohalla project as examples of alternative
education.
Published in: ArtLeaks Gazette n.2, June 2014.
Interviews with Massimo Cacciari and Franco Rella
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
Two conversations I had with eminent philosophers and thinkers Massimo Cacciari and Franco Rella on aesthetics, contemporary art and art theory issues in the mid 90s. The interviews are in Italian language as in origin.
My Body Asking Your Body Questions: VestAndPage (Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes) interviewed by Valeria Romagnini & Karlyn De Jong (Personal Structures |GAA Foundation)
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
Complete and revised version in origin of the interview with performance artist duo VestAndPage by Valeria Romagnini with additional questions by Karlyn De Jong, partly published in Personal Structures, vol. II, 2013. The artists analyze in depth issues such as the "here and now", the position of the Self, the value of freedom, relational paradigms and the importance of the audience.
TWO BODIES IN SPACE | DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE: The Quest for Authenticity in the VestAndPage Experience
(2015)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
Andrea Pagnes, from the performance art duo VestAndPage, presents a reflective piece that will become essential reading for anyone interested in durational and related performance practice. The particular focus on research concentrates the importance of the insights in this piece. Pagnes demonstrates the use of performance as a form of personal expression that leads to a greater capacity for sensitive interpretation and understanding.
—Ross Woodrow, Executive Editor Studio Research Journal