Member Spotlight

Every two weeks, members of the network vote for one of the top 10 most active CPnetwork artists to be featured on the home page and interviewed for the blog. The current bi-monthly’s vote ends June 22 and we would like to introduce you

Each week, members of the network vote for one of the top 10 most active CPnetwork artists to be featured on the home page and interviewed for the blog. We would like to introduce you to last weeks leader, Grace Exhibition Space/Jill

Each week, members of the network vote for one of the top 10 most active CPnetwork artists to be featured on the home page and interviewed for the blog. This week’s vote is half way to the deadline and we would like

An Interview with this week’s Member Spotlight, Theo Edmonds (Lexington, KY, USA). I am a Scotch-Irish-Cherokee child of Appalachia and former corporate lawyer, whose work explores the concepts of: (1) Nature (DNA) vs Nurture (religion, politics, homophobia, racism, elitism, violence, etc); and,

Shiyuan liu, Director Current Town: Brooklyn, New York. Director of An_Ding_Men Performance Group  Shiyuan Liu is the director/creator of An_Ding_Men Performance Group. Her performative interest falls mainly in the field of meshing performance art with other mediums in order to challenge the

Can you tell us a little about your group’s mission, your history and your performative concerns. Working with a collective of artists on an experimental performance, I realized how difficult it was to get a venue to perform in Paris, France. I

Red Bind (Toulouse, France) are multidisciplinary artists; they investigate subjects such as dominant/dominated relationships, social yokes, gender and its limits and ambiguities, issues of the double and of the multiple characters under a single skin, codes and what happens to them out

Alexander Pohnert (Berlin, Germany) Bio: As an ’emerging’ artist and being, he combines video, performance and alternate settings and practices of experience and image production (including edibles, the auditory and olfactory perception). He is interested in the coming into being, absence and

Bio: Yann Gibert’s body of work is situated in the exploitation of the perfomative moment for a revelation of its space/time context. His performances displace social rituals and collective memories in order to activate new fiction fields. In his pieces, the figure

Laurel Jay Carpenter is a performance and installation artist, investigating longing, devotion and alchemy in her durational live works. She has exhibited extensively in New York City at venues including Exit Art/The First World, The Knitting Factory, Performance Space 122, Judson Church

Each week the top ten most active members on the network are voting on. The winner is promoted on the network front page and interviewed on the blog. To see this week’s voting click here–>. Below is this weeks Spotlight Member, Nina Boas

Julie Tolentino Joshua Tree, CA, US Bio: Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including her time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and audio soundscapes. She performed with David Rousseve/REALITY Dance Theater, Ron Athey, Ibrahim Quarishi, Helen Paris and Leslie Hill, Margarita Guergue,

Every week the members of Contemporary Performance Network vote to spotlight one member. This week’s Member Spotlight is The Nerve Tank (NYC, USA) Bio: Founded in 2006 by Melanie S. Armer and Chance D. Muehleck, The Nerve Tank is an incubator for theatrical

Manolis Tsipos (Athens & Amsterdam) Occupation: performance maker, performer, writer, DasArts attendant Bio He was born in 1979. He is currently a participant of DasArts-Master of Theatre, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is co-founder of the theatre collective “Nova Melancholía”, based in