OPEN CALL - PAB OPEN
PAB Open 2022
April 1th - April 3rd 2022
Location: The historic Hotel Villa Terminus - Bergen - Norway
Performance Art Bergen is looking for performances from regional, national and international artists. The festival PAB OPEN will take place in the historical building Villa Terminus in Bergen, Norway from March 31st to 3rd of April 2022. The artists will be able to interact with the unique site spanning through the main living rooms, kitchen, library, an exclusive garden and the 18 hotel rooms.
This is the 5th time PAB organizes PAB OPEN. The festival holds a low-threshold offer that allows the artists to explore and test new performative expressions. We want to provide a broad approach where artists with different backgrounds and expressions can evolve and create work.
The festival runs over the course of three days, with a public performance program lasting 3 hours each day — and in addition including a seminar on Friday, and dinner where we gather all participating artists on Saturday. Applicants are encouraged to focus on durational performances with a minimum duration of 30 minutes, which can be performed on multiple days. It is possible to apply with a solo or duo performance.
Due to the amount of performances happening at the same time, please let us know if you wish to use audio or similar elements in your performance. This is so we can fit it into the program without disturbing other performances. The rooms in the hotel are small, therefore it is recommended to not use amplification of sounds. We can unfortunately not offer any technical support or equipment. We kindly ask all artists to be self-reliant due to the size of the event.
What does PAB offer
We have the opportunity to offer 1 night accommodation at the hotel, breakfast, light lunch and a celebratory dinner for participating artists at the festival on Saturday, as well as a seminar on the topic of contemporary Performance Art, networking opportunities, and professional documentation of your performance. PAB will be able to offer a small fee of 1000 NOK (around 97 EUR) at the present time. We are applying for funding to be able to offer more. PAB encourages artists to apply for individual travel and project grants. PAB will send an invitation if needed for applications.
Registration:
Traditionally, PAB OPEN has been a festival without curation, where everyone who applied has been invited to participate. This time, applications are evaluated continuously as there is a limited number of hotel rooms and common rooms available. The committee will make a selection assessed continuously based on local and visiting artists.
The portal for registration opens at september 11 at 18:00 here:
PAB OPEN 2022 REGISTRATION
Organizers of PAB open 2022: Consists of the artists Anett Haukås, Iivi Meltaus, Mari Norddahl, Masja Nødtvedt, Tanja Silvestrini, Anette Friedrich Johannessen & Mia Øquist. The artists have broad and varied experience both as organizers of events and festivals, are active performance artists, and have positions as board members in Performance Art Bergen.
Contact information: post@performanceartbergen.no
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Here you can find documentation & texts from pervious PAB OPEN festivals:
PAB OPEN FESTIVAL 2019 - Grand Hotel Terminus
PAB OPEN FESTIVAL 2017 - Vaskerelven 8
PAB OPEN FESTIVAL 2015 - Old prison of Bergen
PAB OPEN FESTIVAL 2013 - Old prison of Bergen
PAB OPEN 2022 is supported by: Bergen Kommune, Kulturrådet, Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, Grand Hotel Terminus, USF Verftet AIR