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).
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