Beecroft, Abramovic, Acconci: at the PAC in Milan, a three-day event to talk about performance

The first three days of March 2018 will be under the banner of the performing arts at the PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan with a series of meetings, screenings and live performances that will be held as part of the “Performing PAC” program.
During these days there will be meetings focused on performance in its different forms with internationally renowned experts in the field: Thursday, March 1, there will be Susanne Franco, professor of dance and theater history atCa’ Foscari University in Venice; Friday, March 2, it will be the turn to Lois Keidan, director of the Live Art Development Agency LADA in London; Saturday, March 3 will feature André Lepecki, head of the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York.
The three encounters will be accompanied by 3 live perfomances by artists active in both performance, such as Dora Garcia and Paulien Oltheten, and dance, such as Annamaria Ajmone and Cristina Kristal Rizzo, who will reenact some of their works in a new version.

For the first time, moreover, the PAC is opening its archives by rereading two exhibitions it has produced in the past in tribute to two iconic performance artists, Vito Acconci and Gina Pane. In the exhibition Exploding House (PAC 1981), curated by Zeno Birolli, Vito Acconci moved from his famous and irreverent performances to interacting with the space through a direct involvement of the public, while in Partitions Opere Multimedia 1984-1985 (PAC 1985), curated by Lea Vergine, Gina Pane abandoned the provocations of the 1970s to arrive at a conceptual, mental and analytical synthesis.

A rereading not through the works, but with documents, photographs, reviews and correspondences from the PAC’s historical archive - sounded out for the occasion by students of the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the University of Milan - that will also allow to reconstruct the “backstage” of those exhibitions. During the three days, it will also be possible to see videos of performances that PAC has produced over the years, including Vanessa Beecroft, Marina Abramović, Santiago Sierra, young Cuban artists and new generations of South African women artists.

Together with Franca Ferrari, a choreographer-dancer-teacher of contemporary dance, the PAC also involves schools and creates 2 workshops dedicated to the students of the Tito Livio choreographic high school in Milan on Thursday, March 1 and Friday, March 2. Saturday, March 3, closes the three-day event with a finissage marked by music: at 9:30 p.m. Cosmic Bombero Show, the sensory experience designed by artist Marco Belfiore that combines video projections and live electronic music; from 10 p.m.00 the collaboration with Le Cannibale brings to PAC the “cinematic” “cerebral” and “cosmic” Marco Shuttle, one of the most highly regarded contemporary Italian electronic artists based in Berlin, and UABOS, known for his highly technical approach to the art of mixing and his versatility in mixing different musical influences. For all information you can call 0288446359 or visit www.pacmilano.it.

Beecroft, Abramovic, Acconci: at the PAC in Milan, a three-day event to talk about performance

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