Corpus, network for performance practice, is pleased to present its new web platform, the Corpus Companion. Like a travelogue, the Companion lays out the journeys of the performances and performance-related projects commissioned by Corpus. By subscribing to the Companion, you can follow the movements of these projects as they develop over time and through their international trajectories. We invite you to sign up here and to subscribe to individual projects in order to receive tailor-made information, performance documentation, and notes from behind the scenes.
Corpus is a network for commissioning performance-related work. The commissioned performances are developed across the diverse platforms of the network partners, who all share a longstanding interest in and commitment to performance. Corpus aims to create specific conditions and production structures for artists working with performance that allow them to experiment, speculate, and revisit ideas. For Corpus, process and presentation are equally important. The collaboration between the institutional partners creates new leverage for the heterogeneous needs of performance. As an extension of the network, the Corpus Companion opens up the development of the projects to an audience online. Signing up to the Companion offers insight into the practices of some of the most exciting artists working with performance today.
Founded in 2012, Corpus currently consists of Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in Amsterdam, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum and M-Museum) in Leuven, and Tate Modern in London.
Performances and projects are being developed with Mary Reid Kelley, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Paulina Olowska, Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Cally Spooner, Nástio Mosquito, and by Bulegoa z/b in the framework of The Book to Come, Myriam Lefkowitz, CAConrad, and Michael Portnoy. In Corpus’ first phase, projects have been realized with Orla Barry, Tim Etchells (i.c.w. FormContent), Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Emily Roysdon, as well as research projects on Laboratoire Agit-Art and with Isidoro Valcárcel Medina.
The Corpus Companion has been developed with Kommerz.
Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
