2018 - Performance Art Week - BIPF - History will be kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It?

BIPF - Bergen International performance festival
"History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It"
Kunstgarasjen - Møllendalsveien 15
Saturday & Sunday, February 15th - 16th
Time: 13:00 - 17:00

Participating artists at BIBF from the tour History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It :
Christian Etongo (Kamerun), Anthea Moys (Sør-Afrika), Serge Olivier Fokoua (Kamerun / Canada), Diana Soria Hernandez (Finland / Mexico), Gøril Wallin (Norge),Mekdes W Shbeta (Ethiopia/Norway) og Elias Björn (Sweden)

Participating artists at BIBF from the tour "It´s personal: Pavana Reid, Pattree Chimnok, Terese Longva, Nopawan Sirivejkul, Rita Marhaug, Jittima Pholsawek, Sareena Sattapon og Marit Tunestveit Dyre.

BIPF - Bergen International performance festival
- History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It
10-17th of September, two international performance art tours will meet in Bergen & at BIPF - Bergen international performance festival. Similar themes in both groups are how big, global societal trends affect local environment and sphere of the individual. The project "History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It" invites artists and theorists from African and Nordic countries to use performance as a means to deconstruct knowledge and examine the power relations of today. Can performative artistic processes challenge the dominating historical narratives? If the fixed history of the west used to be the reference to revisit and remember the past, now it is crucial to bring performance to the forefront of meaning making.

Program for the festival:

Wednesday September 12th
Time: 10:00-15:00
SEMINAR : History will be kind to me?
Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design

Fredag September 14th
Time: 18:30-19:30.
PAB OPEN SESSION
-Performance Festplassen, Culture Night

Saturday & Sunday, February 15th - 16th
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME FOR I INTEND TO PERFORM IT
BERGEN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANC

In collaboration with "SAVVY Contemporary History will be kind to me for i intend to perform it project & tour" is funded by:
Kulturkontakt Nord, Nordisk Kulturfond, Art Promotion Center Finland, Statens Kulturråd Sverige, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond, Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturråd

Sponsors:
Fylkingen / SVERIGE Universitetet i Bergen, Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design / NORGE Tehdas Theatre og Pro Manilla Foundation / FINLAND

It's Personal prosjektet supported locally by:
Bergen Kommune, Hordaland Fylkeskommune, Performance Art Bergen og Kunsthall 3.14.

Here is documentation from:
BIPF - Bergen International performance festival
"History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It"
Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum