The organizers put a special emphasis on the SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE, which continued to work on the concept of thematic workshops. The SCHOOL has become a holistic cycle of workshops during the last ten years. It focuses on the individuality of each participant and it is an opportunity to work in a team, to try yourself in group activities and to create a common space that generates a definitive context for the behavior of all participants. This year the SCHOOL finally covered not only different subjects but techniques. Among the invited teachers were Janusz Baldyga (Poland) with the program «STATIC PERFOMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS», Martine Viale (France) with the «LABORATORY OF THE BODY» and Bartolomé Ferrando (Spain) with a cycle of practical lectures «IN THE SOUND WORK». Continue reading “YARYNA SHUMSKA. SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE 2018: DYNAMICS OF THE CHANGE PROCESSES” →

I had a very rich experience at Days of performance art in Lviv, as a participating artist of the festival and also as a workshop facilitator. As an artist I felt supported and listened to which is always reassuring. The festival team did everything they could to facilitate the work of all the artists and the event format, two or three actions a night, gives the audience the chance to reflect on each work and gives the artist the space to experiment. I appreciated this kind of direction which is not concentrated on productivity but rather on the reality of what the practice requires. Continue reading “MARTINE VIALE. SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE, LVIV 2018” →

The festival, which has just come to an end, gave an answer to an important question of the educational potential of performance art. The adequate distribution of the activities of School of performance and the presentations by artists from different countries and artistic environments led to the formation of a single organism based on the interconnections of art and practical training. The participants admit that this year’s version has become an extremely original platform for exchanging information and experience among festival participants, invited performers, and young school participants. Continue reading “JANUSZ BALDYGA. SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE. DAYS OF PERFORMANCE ART – LVIV 2018” →

Between September 1 to September 8, 2018, Lviv will host the SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE within the framework of the festival Days of Performance Art. This is the only training ground in Ukraine where you can learn from experience shared by recognized experts of performance art from all over the world.

This year’s SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE includes an integral cycle of master classes, targeted primarily at attaining individual results for each participant. The School offers a training process open to all forms and circumstances related to the art of performance, and, therefore, it is not a closed laboratory. At the end of the training, the School participants will have a chance to present their own ideas within the framework of the festival.

“Training practice revealed to the public as an open show makes the Lviv project one of the most outstanding presentations of the art of performance in Europe. The confrontation of the youngest performers and experienced participants in the international artistic movement, in particular from Spain, Great Britain, Israel, Ukraine, Indonesia, and Poland, yields fruit in the form of new contacts and information exchange, which is priceless for the development of art.” (Janusz Baldyga, Curator of the SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE)

Each year, the School develops training proposals, offering the opportunity to work together with new teachers – artists who implement original copyrighted practices. This strategy contributes to enriching the experience of school participants.

This year’s SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE will include three training groups with master classes conducted by experienced performers: JANUSZ BALDYGA from Poland, BARTOLOMÉ FERRANDO from Spain, and MARTINE VIALE from France.

JANUSZ BALDYGA will carry on with the concept of thematic master classes and offer the topic: “STATIC PERFOMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS”, where students will explore the moment of motionlessness, standstill as a culmination of action.

BARTOLOMÉ FERRANDO, artist, educator, and curator of many festivals and practical educational projects related to performance art, who works in the genre of visual and vocal poetry, will hold the master class “IN THE SOUND WORK”.

MARTINE VIALE’s master class “LABORATORY OF THE BODY” will focus on the various ways to bond with time and space, using the body as a research laboratory. For fifteen years, Viale has been conducting intensive master classes in Montreal (Canada), as well as in Chicago (USA), France and Brussels, and recently in Catalonia (Spain).

The School’s program of master classes will also include the performance lecture DESCENSION by VOLODYMYR KAUFMAN.

Alongside the School’s activity, there will be performances by Ukrainian artists ANTON SAIENKO, NATALYA LISOVA and KOSTYANTYN ZORKIN, LIOR KARIEL and GALIA PAVLICHENKO from Israel, MARTINE VIALE and PASCALE CIAPP from France, JANUSZ BALDYGA and MARIAN STEPAK from Poland, SIGMUND SKARD from Norway and BARTOLOMÉ FERRANDO from Spain.

Training at the SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE and performance shows will take place in the period from September 1 to September 7. At the end of the festival, there will be an open discussion of the results of the project among the School participants and audience of the festival.

You can register for the SCHOOL OF PERFORMANCE from August 10 to August 23, 2018 by filling out the electronic form at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15v4JTZ7-NZ7pi3nnd-C0w38gNZ9k87lLCsuAEFoZf3E/edit

The key selection criterion will be the personal motivation of potential students.

You will be notified about your admission by August 25.

The main venue of the festival: Dzyga Gallery, 35 Virmenska Street

Curators: Volodymyr Kaufman (Ukraine), Janusz Baldyga (Poland)

Art Director – Lida Savchenko-Duda (Ukraine)

Organizers and partners of the festival: Lviv City Council, Dzyga Art Association, Virmenska-thirty-five (Lviv), Polish Institute in Kyiv, Embassy of the State of Israel to Ukraine, OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Lviv puppet theatre,  Alliance Française Lviv.

September 02 – September 04, 10:00-14:00,
the Program STATIC PERFORMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS by Janusz Baldyga in frame of the School of Performance 2018.

Last year we accepted the concept of thematic workshops, that time the theme was Presence. The next important element and task for this year participants will be a creation of a common space that will form the workshop context for the first phase, and it will define the behavior of all participants.

I offer the theme “STATIC PERFORMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS” for this year. We work with the moment of motionless, stop as culmination of an action. Of course, it does not mean that the classes will be abstract from the dynamics. On the contrary, our task will be to search for the relationship between the state of the motionless and the dynamic action. The use of the objects directs our attention to gravity, equilibrium, and overload. We must be aware of the flow of time and the associated exhaustion, which leads to the stoppage of the action. Continue reading “the Program STATIC PERFORMANCE – DYNAMICS OF MOTIONLESS by Janusz Baldyga [2018]” →

September 02 – September 04, 10:00-14:00,
the Program LABORATORY OF THE BODY by Martine Vial in frame of the School of Performance 2018.

This workshop will be addressing  different ways to connect with time and space while using the body as a place of research.

We will be looking at how duration can transform our vision and inform the directions of our actions. Continue reading “the Program LABORATORY OF THE BODY by Martine Viale [2018]” →

September 01 – September 03, 10:00-14:00,
the Program IN THE SUND WORK by Bartolomé Ferrando in frame of the School of Performance 2018.

1 − First of all, I show you a system that I created, based on the history of phonetic poetry, for the decomposition of language.

2 − Through the use of newspapers, we create a new language and work both individually and collectively

3 − We work some historical pieces of phonetic poetry

4 − We do practices of semantic and asemantic oral simultaneism

5 − We work on the relationship between writing, gesture and sound

6 − We work on the relationship between performance and voice. Various practices.

Continue reading “the Program IN THE SOUND WORK by Bartolomé Ferrando [2018]” →

The 10th DAYS of Performance took place in Lviv.

August 28 – September 3, 2017, Days of Performance Art – the first Ukrainian festival of art-performance took place in Lviv. Every year, the festival demonstrates unique, successful practices and is the space for communication between performers of different cultures, generations, and schools.

Continue reading “10th DAYS OF PERFORMANCE. 2017” →

August 28 – August 30, 10:00-14:00, a lecture hall of the Lviv Museum of Religious History (Muzeina Square, 1) The Program PRESENCE/ABSENCE by Janusz Baldyga in frame of the School of Performance 2017

Continue reading “The Program PRESENCE/ABSENCE by Janusz Baldyga” →

Traditionally, the festival combined the School of Performance and displays and attracted unexpectedly vast audience not only to the shows, but also to the School’s studies. In unison with the stated theme, the festival boosted environment up, and, as organizers said, this year it reached its peak within the accustomed format. Performers from Belarus, Israel, Germany, Poland and Ukraine participated in the festival. Altogether, in four days 18 performances took place, and more than 20 students demonstrated their work on the School’s final.

The School of Performance, after submitting applications during August, accepted 50 people. Most of them were completely new scholars, who had never attended previous Schools. For four days they had four morning hours with Waldemar TATARCZUK – for novices, Zygmunt PIOTROWSKI – for all students, Sandra JOHNSTON – for experts. Lecture-performance «Iconic Symbol in The Art of Performance» by Janusz BALDYGA became a specific educational format of the School. Continue reading “Performance. Activation. Eighth Days of Performance Art in Lviv took place on 2-6 of September, 2015” →

Autumn in Lviv traditionally begins with contemporary art and activation
of the art performances in urban space.

The eighth International Festival of Performance Days of Performance Art in Lviv (the first was in the far 2008) – unique and only in Ukraine – will take place on 2 – 6 of September. This year the performances are combined with the events of Eastern Partnership Culture Congress that also takes place in Lviv in those days.

Vector of the art performances/events is seen through the theme of the festival:  Performance. Activation Continue reading “VIІI DAYS OF PERFORMANCE ART IN LVIV. September 2 – 6, 2015. press release” →

16 05 2017 The workshop of Marta Bosowska ended. During tree days of workshops, pupils had to
have a possibility to work with a gesture understanding and expression, research a reliance of
audience and author on a place, its worth for work, experiment with changes, which are happen with
an object by interaction with a human beeing, by repeating, in different spaces.

Continue reading “The workshop of Marta Bosowska has ended” →

15 05 2017 Marta Bosowska stayed motionless in front of the Dominic church during two hours. She like a sculpture pointed out on the Museum of Religion History entrance and over her swing the big black air ball showing wind direction, pointing out on the place…

Continue reading “there was even a long term performance” →