The text is commissioned by Michele Robecchi for the RES Art WOrld – World Art Magazine, on the expansion of programming performance in large scale institutions.
“Performance is a medium experimental by nature, mostly multi-authored, and collectively realised. Defined in brackets of time, performance entails an action of variant kind marking a sensuous space. Unlike other media, the duration of performance depends on its artist(s). In some cases, it might take consecutive yearsii while in others it can take place as small portions of time. Reliant on the nature of the action, performance can be named as a visual experience that exceeds further onto the physical at its moment of execution while activating the bodies in space (body of the performers, the audience, the place, etc).
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