German artist Verena Stenke and Venetian artist and writer Andrea Pagnes have been working together since 2006, generating art in the mediums of live performance, filmmaking and writing, and as independent curators. Their practice is contextual, process-led, situation-responsive and conceived psycho-geographically in response to natural surroundings, social contexts, historical sites or architecture, hence unrepeatable and subdue to the given conditions. In a poetics of relations it examines notions of perception, reality, communication, fragility and failure of the individual and the collective within different social or environmental spheres. Exploring what, as human beings, we still have to offer, VestAndPage question our existence within a humanity characterized by social exclusion and global atrocities. Demanding themselves to inspire others and animated by a nomadic, confrontational spirit, they apply the themes of acceptance, resistance, endurance and union with a poetic bodily approach to art practice. They have presented their productions in Europe, US, Asia, South America, as well as giving workshops, lectures and seminars on their methodology and research in institutions worldwide. Their book "The Fall of Faust - Considerations on Contemporary Art and Art Action" has been published by VestAndPage press (Florence, 2010).
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performance, performance art, live art, artistic research, art praxis, art process, art theory, visual art, video art, art education, filmmaking, official website, performing arts
