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This is a list of organisations that are involved supporting or providing information about performance art but do not fit into any of the other categories. The ratings give a rough indication of how committed the organisation is to the presentation of performance art (1=less, 3=more). The organisations are listed first by country, then by city and then alphabetically by name name.To skip to a particular country, city or venue, use your browser's 'Find' function. If the text is too small increase it with your browers's "Text Size" function.
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Argentina

Buenos Aires

Rating: 3
Buenos Aires Performance
Buenos Aires

Info:
PerfoPuerto.org and Buenos Aires Performance (an independant Artist organization in Argentina), decided to produce a joint endeavour, an international Performance Art festival, "In Transit", in early November 2004, in Santiago (Chile) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Guests included are artists from 6 countries, as well as a selection of local artists. See (www.perfopuerto.org/new_en.htm)

Belgium

Brussels

Rating: 2
I.E.T.M.
Contact:
Mary Ann de Vlieg

Address:
19 Square Sainctelette

1210 Brussels

Phone: 32 2 210 09 15
Fax: 32 2 203 02 26
Info:
The Informal European Theatre Meeting is a network of theatre venues, promoters and producers primarily involved in contemporary theatre, dance, performance and multimedia work. The network has several hundred international members and organises two meetings of the network per year.

Rating: 2
IETM - Informal European Theatre Meeting
Coordinator
Address:
19 Square Sainctelette

1000 Brussels

Phone: +32 2 201 09 15
Fax: +32 2 203 02 26
E-mail: ietm@ietm.org
Web: www.ietm.org

Rating: 1
Vlaams Theater Instituut
Contact:
Ann Olaerts

Director
Address:
Sainctelettesquare 19

B 1000 , Brussels

Phone: +32 (0)2/201 09 06
Fax: +32 (0)2/203 02 05
E-mail: info@vti.be
Web: www.vti.be
Info:
The platform of performing arts professionals in Flanders!

Gentbrugge

Rating: 2
PAIN Performing Arts International
Contact:
Wouter Bouchez

Office Manager
Address:
Kliniekstraat 90

9050 Gentbrugge

Phone: +32 485 32 37 52
E-mail: europe@painarts.org
Web: www.painarts.org
Info:
Promotiion / production organisation for performing artists. Offers touring funding.

Chile

Santiago

Rating: 3
PerfoPuerto
Contact:
Alexander Del Re

Director
Santiago

E-mail: info@adelre.com
Web: www.adelre.com
Info:
PerfoPuerto.org, is an independent artist-run organization, producing, teaching and promoting Performance Art in Chile, since 1997. Even with a minimum budget, the organization has managed to survive and even expand its activities throughout the years, presenting performance artworks both from local and international artists, as well as organizing many performance art workshops and other related events, like conferences and video documentation screenings.

China

Hong Kong

Rating: 1
Asia Art Archive
Address:
11/F Hollywood Centre

233 Hollywood Rd.
Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 2815 1112
Fax: (852) 2815 0032
E-mail: info@aaa.org.hk
Web: www.aaa.org.hk
Info:
The Asia Art Archive (AAA) is the first ever non- profit research centre in Hong Kong dedicated to documenting the recent history of visual art from the region within an international context.

Denmark

Copenhagen

Rating: 2
NordScenNordic - Centre for the Performing Arts
Address:
Vesterbrogade 26, 3rd floor

DK-1620 Copenhagen

Phone: +45 3322 4555
Fax: +45 3324 0157
E-mail: post@nordscen.org
Web: www.nordscen.org
Info:
NordScen – Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts is the Nordic Council of Ministers’ institution for the performing arts. NordScen’s aim is to promote and develop creative Nordic cooperation within the professional performing arts and to spread awareness of Nordic theatre, dance and musical theatre in the Nordic region and internationally. NordScen is active in four main areas: presentation/promotion of the Nordic region’s creative, practising performing arts; development of expertise and seminar and conference organisation; project development and project support; support for research and artistic development work

Finland

Helsinki

Rating: 2
Muu ry
Contact:
Timo Soppela

Director
Address:
Lönnrotinkatu 33

00180 Helsinki

Phone: +358-(0)9-625 972
Fax: +358-(0)9-436 86470
E-mail: office@muu.fi
Web: www.muu.fi
Info:
Artist Association MUU is an artist run, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association, founded in 1987 to represent and promote new and experimental forms of art. These are such as media art, performance, video, environmental, space and conceptual art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.
The aims of Muu are to develop the collaboration and interchange of artists working within different fields, to produce projects, events, seminars and exhibitions of the Muu ("the Other") art fields and to arouse cultural political discussion. Muu operates with Finnish and international cultural and educational organizations.

Tampere

Rating: 3
Tampere Performance Association
Address:
Nekalantie 70 A 26

33800 Tampere

Phone: 03 2231422

France

Marseille

Rating: 3
Ornic'art
Contact:
Christine Bouvier

Address:
23 place Jean Jaurès

13005 Marseille

Phone: (33)661349362
E-mail: ornicart@lafriche.org
Web: lieu- ressource-ornicart.over-blog.com
Info:
Organisation promoting performance art and organising workshops and an annual festival. Also maintains a French language blog of performance resources.

Germany

Berlin

Rating: 2
Europäische Ost West Akademie für Kultur und Medien
Contact:
Carola Dürr

Vorstandsvorsitzende
Address:
Gieselerstraße 13

10713 Berlin

Phone: +49. (0)170. 5329831
Fax: +49. (0)30.3911811
E-mail: info@ost-west- akademie.de
Web: www.ost-west- akademie.de
Info:
The European East-West Academy initiates and promotes projects which are both interdisciplinary and cross national in the fields of Art and culture.

Rating: 3
Fernwärme
Berlin

Web: www.fernwaerme- berlin.net
Info:
Fernwaerme was founded as a production group in 2002 by seven Berlin based artists. It is the continuation of their longlasting cooperation in various performance projects. Fernwaerme has a special interest in artistic process research and cross genre exchange. Fernwärme supports the realization of projects through its publicity network in and outside Berlin. We wish to create new contacts among performance artists themselves and between performance spaces and their activities.

Rating: 2
Junge Hunde Network
Network Coordinator
Address:
Pasteurstr. 38

10407 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 498 557 40
Fax: +49 30 498 557 42
E-mail: info@jungehunde.net
Web: www.jungehunde.net
Info:
The JUNGE HUNDE network was created in 1995 to enable young experimenting artists to tour outside of their home country, to meet artists from different cultural contexts and to exchange ideas and experiences as well as to create long lasting co-operations. The network is dedicated to the presentation, promotion, exchange and development of young, contemporary performing artists, their new ideas and new works by providing them with the necessary resources, support and continuity across European borders. Every year several public events; festivals or single presentations along with residencies, co-productions, artist exchanges, workshops, seminars, debates etc. take place in the cities of the network.

Rating: ?
Tanzwerkstatt Berlin
Contact:
Ulrike Becker

Artistic Director
Address:
Klosterstrasse 68-70

10179 Berlin

Phone: + 49 30 24 74 97 56
Fax: + 49 30 24 74 97 57
E-mail: twb@bkv.org
Info:
TanzWerkstatt Berlin, founded in 1988 and incorporated into Kulturveranstaltungs-GmbH in 1992, is dedicated to supporting and presenting new approaches and works in the field of international contemporary dance that are open to influences from other media and experiment with new forms. In particular, this includes work in the zone between dance and performance, work that does not grasp contemporary dance as an isolated discipline, but rather as an artistic means of coming to terms with the world we live in, works whose means of expression are based on movement and the human body. In addition, dance films and video work are an integral part of TanzWerkstatt’s program. A special focus is placed on process-oriented projects and an international exchange of ideas between artists.

Cologne

Rating: 2
235 Media
Contact:
Alexandra Wessels

Address:
Am Kölner Brett 6

50825 Cologne

Phone: +49 221 546 4819
Fax: +49 221 546 4848
E-mail: project@235media.com
Web: www.235media.com
Info:
Online archive of media art and some performance work.

Rating: 3
ASA: Art Service Association
Address:
Rathenauplatz 35

50674 Cologne

Phone: +49-221 245115
E-mail: asabank@asa.de
Web: www.asa.de
Info:
Organisation which promotes, supports and documents international performance art. Provides extensive online archive and contacts.

Hildesheim

Rating: 3
International Performance Association Hildesheim
Contact:
Jürgen Fritz

Hildesheim

E-mail: jfritz@i-pah.de
Web: www.i-pah.de

Hungary

Budapest

Rating: 2
Artpool - Art Research Centre
Address:
Liszt Ferenc tér 10.

Budapest

Phone: (+36-1) 268-01-14
Fax: 36(1)121-0833
E-mail: artpool@artpool.hu
Web: www.artpool.hu
Info:
A non profit, alternative art institution with the objective of registering changes in art, presenting and documenting the most interesting art experiments and to promote artistic communication.

India

New Delhi

Rating: 2
KHOJ International Artists' Association
Director
Address:
S-17, Khirkee Extension,

110017 New Delhi

Phone: +91-11-65655874
E-mail: interact@khojworkshop.org
Web: www.khojworkshop.org
Info:
KHOJ International Artists' Association is an artist led, alternative space for experimentation and international exchange based in India. Part of the global Triangle Arts Trust, KHOJ sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialogue in the visual arts. Through our programming we aim to assist and develop, forms of art such as media art, performance, video, environmental, public and community based art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production. As a deliberate policy our core invitees have been from South Asia which has resulted in the development of an active network of artists in the region. KHOJ seeks to promote cross cultural exchange within the visual practices of the 'Global South'. Since our inception in 1997 artists from Iran, Egypt, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Lebanon, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan and several countries in Africa, have participated in our workshops and residencies.

Indonesia

Bandung

Rating: 3
B+PAC Bandung + Performance Art Community
Director
Address:
Jl. Sentosa 91 B KPAD

40153 Bandung

Phone: +62 22 201 4380
E-mail: yoyogasmana@yahoo.com
Web: www.araiart.jp/bpac.html
Info:
B+PAC is an organization for performance artists and organizers, and supported performance activities in Bandung. Although performance art activities in Bandung are always been based on independency of the artists or organizers, and a mutual cooperation among them, B+PAC supported by become a database, publishing, promoting and build networking.

Israel

Tel Aviv

Rating: 3
Performance Art Platform – Tel Aviv
Address:
The New Central Bus Station

Lewinski St. 116
Tel Aviv

Phone: +972 3 5372096
Fax: +972 3 5372098
E-mail: miklat_t@zahav.net.il
Web: www.miklat209.org.il
Info:
The Performance Art Platform is home for all performance artists in Israel.
We are committed to acting in a relevant manner and according to contemporary reality, especially in the area where we are active: Downtown Tel-Aviv, Israel, and the Middle East.
The Performance Art Platform puts on original productions and continues to exhibit the works of Tamar Raban, including She Has a Headache in the Stomach and Dinner Dress – Tales about Dora (at the time of the fire this work was at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and thus survived). These works were exhibited and produced in collaboration with the Viener Festwochen, Zuercher Theater Spektakel, Kampnagal - Hamburg, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien - Berlin, Teatri di Vita - Bologna, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual -Mexico-City, FFT - Dusseldorf, "Politik-Um" The Center for Contemporary Art - Prague, NIPAF Festival - Japan, and more.

Mail Address
P.O.B.: 59492, Tel-Aviv, 61593 Israel

Rating: 2
Shelter 209
Address:
The New Tel-Aviv Bus Terminal

POB 59492
61593 Tel Aviv

Phone: +972 (3) 5372096
Fax: +972 (3) 5372098
E-mail: miklat@zahav.net.il
Web: www.shelter209.org.il
Info:
Organisation for the advancement of interdisciplinary art in Israel.

Italy

Milan

Rating: ?
Med
Milan

E-mail: contact@bymed.org
Web: www.bymed.org/med
Info:
Med is a cultural network founded at Superstudio Più in Milan in 2003. Its purpose is the realisation of projects to promote and circulate contemporary artistic work, overcoming the traditional divisions between genres and representational spaces. med aims to create a collective open to an ongoing dialogue with the most challenging and original experiences of both the Italian and international scenes. med cooperates with public institutions and private companies to devise, plan and advise on a wide variety of artistic and cultural projects.

Japan

Tokyo

Rating: 3
ARAIart.jp
Contact:
Arai Shin-ichi

Address:
Kamezawa 2-5-4 #201

Sumida-ku
Tokyo 130-0014 Tokyo

E-mail: arai@j.email.ne.jp
Web: www.araiart.jp
Info:
Japanese performance artist who maintains an excellent website with information and documentation from a range of East Asian performance art festivals.

Poland

Lublin

Rating: 3
Performance Art Centre
Curator
Address:
Centrum Kultury

Peowiaków 12
20-007 Lublin

Phone: (081) 536 03 19
E-mail: performance@osp.art.pl
Web: www.osp.art.pl
Info:
A venue and organisation presenting and promoting performance art.

Serbia

Belgrade

Rating: 2
Flexible Art Network
Address:
Zabranska 26

11309 Belgrade

E-mail: flexibleart@yahoo.com
Web: www.flexibleart.net
Info:
A wide informal net between individuals, organizations or groups. Flexibleart searches for creative authors, art forms through direct - personal communication and displacing of events into the urban city space. Working on actions / widely inviting public (not to be passive observer) + artists to explore strategies and approaches of live, direct contact and communication between creative art forms and daily life introduction / cooperation.

Switzerland

Basel

Rating: 3
Agentur für Performancekunst
Basel

E-mail: info@kasko.ch
Web: www.kasko.ch
Info:
A project from Timothy Grundy, Barbara Neidhart and Isabel Rohner, the 'Agency for Performance Art' was presented during the Liste 05 festival at the Kaskenkondensator festival. Although the agency appears to have been a temporary project, the remaining website provides links to over 20 performance artists.

Pfäffikon

Rating: 3
Perforum
Address:
Seedamm-Kulturzentrum

Gwattstrasse
CH-8808 Pfäffikon

Phone: +41 (079) 467 26 89
E-mail: info@perforum.ch
Web: ww.perforum.ch
Info:
Perforum is funded by Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Stiftung Charles und Agnes Vögele in Pfäffikon/SZ.

Through our Archive and our regular Festival we want to support a historical and contemporary discussion about performance-art and related fields. Our archive is open to the public. Please support us with documentation of your artistic or scientific work.

UK

Lincoln

Rating: 2
Beacon Art Project
Contact:
Nicola Streeten

Address:
Reading Room & Chapel

High Street
LN5 OHW Lincoln

Phone: +44 (0)1522 811 809
E-mail: info@beaconartproject.com
Web: www.beaconartproject.com

Aberystwyth

Rating: 3
Centre for Performance Research
Address:
8 Science Park

SY23 3AH Aberystwyth

Phone: 01970 622 133
Fax: 01970 622 132
E-mail: cprwww@aber.ac.uk

Brighton

Rating: 3
Brighton Fringe Arts Production
Contact:
Daryl Ann Whitehead

Administrator & Venue manager
Address:
Ground Floor Argus Lofts

24 Kensington St
BN1 4AJ Brighton

Phone: +44 1273 699 733
E-mail: info@brightonfringe.net
Web: www.brightonfringe.net
Info:
BFAP focuses on supporting and facilitating the production of innovative, inspiring, high quality and accessible performance, visual, media and mixed media art by emergent (individuals as well as small to medium organisations) within Brighton and Hove. BFAP engages with creative individuals and organisations by providing resources, administrative and production support to enable them to develop and create work. Live Art Programme BFAP will over the next two years establish itself as a Live Art hub for the South East England

Bristol

Rating: 3
Live Art Archives
Assistant Keeper (Live Art)
Address:
University of Bristol

Theatre Collection - Drama Dept.
BS8 1UP Bristol

Phone: +44 (0) 0117 33 15186
Fax: +44 (0) 117 33 15082
E-mail: liveart- archives@bristol.ac.uk
Web: www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/liveart/liveart-archivesmain.html
Info:
The Live Art Archives include the Record of Live Art Practice, the National Review of Live Art Archive, the Digital Performance Archive, the Arts Council England Live Art and Performance Archive and Performance magazine Archive.

The Archives' holdings also contain a number of smaller collections of Live Art related material in various formats, such as full sets of Hybrid and LiveArt magazine, Liveartwork DVDs, and a complete set of DVDs by the artist Reza Abdoh. We also hold both the analogue and digital masters, plus viewing copies of the Queer Up North International Festival Video Archive.

The Live Art Archives are also responsible for the administation of the LIVEART, FESTIVAL and ARTNET JISCmail discussion lists

Leeds

Rating: 3
New Work Yorkshire
Address:
Studio 15

Patrick Studios
LS9 7EH Leeds

Phone: 0113 3807466
E-mail: newworkyorkshire@googlemail.com
Web: www.newworknetwork.org.uk/newworkyorkshire
Info:
New Work Yorkshire is developing Live Art/New Work in Yorkshire, providing stimulus, professional development opportunities, visibility, support and signposting for all those who make up the Live Art/New Work sector in the region.

London

Rating: 3
Artsadmin
Contact:
Judith Knight

Director
Address:
Toynbee Studios

28 Commercial Street
E1 6LS London

Phone: +44 20 247 5102
Fax: +44 20 247 5103
E-mail: admin@artsadmin.co.uk
Web: www.artsadmin.co.uk

Rating: 3
New Work Network
Co-ordinator
Address:
Toynebee Studios

28 Commercial Road
E1 6AB London

Phone: +44 (0)20 7729 5779
E-mail: philippa@newworknetwork.org.uk
Web: www.newworknetwork.org.uk
Info:
New Work Network is a sector-wide, artist-led organisation that brings together artists, producers, venues, academics and other practitioners involved in the new work sector in the UK. The organisation builds on the existing cross-over between a wide variety of practices in the fields of performance, live art, new theatre, new dance, installation, video art, digital art, time-based and interdisciplinary arts including those that embrace new technologies.

Also provide funding through the Networked Bodies scheme.

Newcastle upon Tyne

Rating: 3
Amino
Contact:
Ben Ponton

Address:
14 High Bridge House

NE1 1EW Newcastle upon Tyne

Phone: +44 191 261 7262
E-mail: mail@amino.org.uk
Web: amino@amino.org.uk
Info:
amino is a project-based contemporary arts production company based in Newcastle upon Tyne run by Lee Callaghan and Ben Ponton. Our main areas of interest, though not exclusively so, are live art, music and sound art and technology-based art.

Rating: 3
Locus+
Contact:
Jon Bewley

Address:
Room17

3rd Floor Wards Building
NE1 1EW Newcastle upon Tyne

Phone: 0191 233 1450
Fax: 0191 233 1451
E-mail: locusplus@newart.demon.co.uk
Web: www.locusplus.org.uk

Rating: 3
Piggyback
Address:
PO BOX 265

NE6 2WT Newcastle upon Tyne

E-mail: info@piggybackarts.org
Web: www.piggybackarts.org
Info:
An informal artist-led organisation whose aim is to encourage student and emergent artist activity within live and digital arts.

USA

Chicago

Rating: 3
Chicago Performance Network
CHICAGO

Rating: ?
INTERDISCIPLINARY ART PRODUCTIONS
Address:
BOX 68, 500 W. CERMAK RDL

IL 60616 CHICAGO

Downers Grove

Rating: 1
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Address:
P.O. Box 69

IL 60515 Downers Grove

Phone: 1-888-284-3737 / 1-630-964-1940
Fax: 1-630-964-1941
E-mail: info@athe.org
Web: www.athe.org
Info:
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education is an organization of individuals and institutions that provides vision and leadership for the profession and promotes excellence in theatre education. ATHE actively supports scholarship through teaching, research and practice and serves as a collective voice for its mission through its publications, conferences, advocacy, projects, and through collaborative efforts with other organizations.

New York

Rating: ?
DIA Centre for the Arts Bookstore
Address:
548 West 22nd Street

New York

Phone: 212 645 2943
Fax: 212 989 9615
Web: www.diabooks.org

Rating: 2
Double M Arts & Events
Contact:
Michael Mushalla

President
Address:
32 West 39th Street

11th floor
NY 10018 New York

E-mail: mmushalla@cs.com
Web: www.double-m- arts.com
Info:
Promoters representing a range of performance work (including some performance art) in the US.

Rating: 2
Electronic Arts Intermix
Executive Director
Address:
535 West 22 St., 5th floor

NY 10011 New York

Phone: +1 (212) 337-0680
Fax: +1 (212) 337-0679
E-mail: info@eai.org
Web: www.eai.org
Info:
Has extensive catalogue of artists videos to rent or buy. Includes documentation of performance art works.

Rating: 2
Printed Matter Bookstore
Acting Executive Director
Address:
535 West 22nd Street

NY 10011 New York

Phone: 212 925 0325
Fax: 212 925 0464
E-mail: aabronson@printedmatter.org
Web: www.printedmatter.org
Info:
Book store with range of performance art related publications, artists books and other documentation.

Stanford

Rating: 2
Performance Studies International
Contact:
Peggy Phelan

President
Address:
Stanford University

551 Serra Mall
CA 94305-5010 Stanford

Phone: +1 650 724 9648
Fax: +1 650 723 0843
E-mail: admin-mail@psi- web.org
Web: psi-web.org
Info:
(PSi) is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange among scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance. We seek to create opportunities for dialogue among artists and academics in a variety of disciplines whose concerns converge in the still-evolving areas of live art and performance. Organises an annual, international conference.

Washington

Rating: 1
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Programs Director
Address:
1112 16th Street NW

Suite 400
DC 20036 Washington

Phone: 202-833-2787
Fax: 202-833-1543
E-mail: info@artspresenters.org
Web: www.artspresenters.org
Info:
The Association of Performing Arts Presenters is a membership organization, dedicated to bringing performing artists and audiences together in every place and way imaginable. The Association achieves its goal by providing visionary thinking, professional development, resource sharing, and advocacy, in support of its members and all those who create and disseminate the performing arts.

Venezuela

Caracas

Rating: 3
PERFORMANCELOGÍA: Todo sobre Performance y Performancistas
Contact:
Ignacio Pérez

Address:
Av.Urdaneta

Edificio Ipostel.
Caracas

Phone: 0058 412 976 72 37 / 0058 412 584 92 93
E-mail: performancelogia@gmail.com
Web: www.performancelogia.blogspot.com
Info:
PERFORMANCELOGÍA is a project dedicated to the collection, publication, difund and interchange of documentation about performance and performers. Created since 2006 by Ignacio Pérez, Aidana Rico and Amira Tremont, PERFORMANCELOGÍA began its activities with the creation of a website as a Virtual Archive of Documentation about Performance ( http://performancelogia.blogspot.com).

PERFORMANCELOGÍA es un proyecto dedicado a la recopilación, publicación, difusión e intercambio de documentación sobre performance y performancistas. Creado desde el 2006 por Ignacio Pérez, Aidana Rico y Amira Tremont, PERFORMANCELOGÍA inició su actividad con la creación de un sitio web a modo de Archivo Virtual de Documentación sobre Performance ( http://performancelogia.blogspot.com).