* Open Session (PAB OS) is a free and experimental art space, open to performers, artists and audience with an interest in Performance Art. PAB Open Session focuses mainly on performance in the public space, inspired by Bbeyond’s monthly meetings in Belfast. The concept is inclusive and open, so performance artists can have an arena to test new ideas and freely work with their intuition and with each other. We also aim to stimulate and promote exchange between improvisations from different fields and disciplines - artists, dancers, musicians, actors, vocalists and above all, those who cross all these art forms and have an interest to improvise interdisciplinary and interpersonal.

NEXT OPEN SESSIONS:

Reality and Emotion - Open session
Time: Saturay, April 22 - 14:00
Location: The Art Centre Kabuso - Hardangerfjordvegen 626, Øystese

The Art Centre Kabuso and the artists Terese Longva og Rita Marhaug invites all members of PAB to a performance happening/ Open Session Saturday 22nd of April at 2pm.

The event is in conjunction with the last weekend of their exhibition (Longva and Marhaug), with the title Røynd og kjensle (Reality and Emotion). The event will start with a solo performance by Terese Longva inside the gallery space, then Rita Marhaug will perform hers. Her work will end with her going out into the sculpture park in front of KABUSO. From here, everyone is most welcome to take part, outside and in the cafe area (if the weather is particularly bad). The Open Session lasts for an hour, until around 3.30pm.

All of the participants are invited for a coffee and some cake after the performance. Kabuso closes at 4pm.

How to get there?
Buss nr 925 leaves from the busstation at 11.55, the price is 60 NOK (single journey only).

More information & documentation in the Facebook group PAB: OPEN SESSION

PREVIOUS OPEN SESSIONS

PAB OPEN SESSION - VENØ GÅRD
Place: Venøya - Stad kommune
Saturday: 16.07.22

Venø Gård & PAB: Open session (PAB) collaborated on a PAB Open session in the landscape on the Norwegian west coast - Venøya.
6 performance artists performed with a 3 hour open session

Here is the documentation by photographer Ulf Rugumayo Amundsen
from 3 hours PAB Open session - Venø gård KUNST

Thanks to the organizers & hosts:
Venø gård KUNST, Bjørn Venø & Julia Kröner Venø,
& Anita Eide for practical help.

Photo by: Ulf Rugumayo Amundsen

Photo: Ulf Rugumayo Amundsen

Photo: Ulf Rugumayo Amundsen

PAB OS: GROUNDED
Sunday 13.06.21
12:00
Voss

All PAB members are invited for the next Open Session at Voss. We travel from Bergen with train around 9am, and will be back in Bergen around 7pm.

March Equinox a Day of Public Action: for Freedom and Democracy

We invite all members of Open Session to a collective performance done individually on the 20th of March.

After your performance, please send your documentation to: greenpapaya@me.com We will post it in our group.

*Videos should be a maximum lenght of 1-3 minutes.

*The maximum amount of photos is 5.

Looking forward to seeing all the documentation of your performance!

*March Equinox a Day of Public Action: for Freedom and Democracy World wide performances by artists working together in public spaces to mark the September Equinox as a celebration for Freedom and Democracy. As more and more countries are experiencing social unrest due to the rise of governmental cut backs on civil liberties, environmental issues, women’s rights, migration, slavery, etc., every continent is experiencing some form of repression of civil liberties, be they individual, social, economic, political, religious, cultural or environmental, these rights are at the forefront to what makes us human and civil society.

PAB OS: RETRACE

March 6th, 13:00

Skansedammen, Bergen

PAB OS are thrilled to invite you to the first Open Session of 2021.As always, feel free to join in, either as a participant or as an audience.We look forward to see you all there!

PAB OS MASQUERADE

11 desember 2020

kl 17:00

Torgalmenningen, Bergen

PAB Open Session welcomes you to our next group performance!

Please remember to keep distance as adviced. Even so, the space is available for everyone who wishes to experiment, play and test ideas, individually or with each other. Together we will explore the concept of collective performance.

PAB OS Fluctuation - Oseana

October 10, 12:00

Oseana Kunst og kultursenter, Os

PAB OPEN SESSION are again travelling out of Bergen!

Please join us for our next event at Oseana Art and Culture senter, inside of the space named Dansehallen.

For an hour we will interact with each other, the space and selected materials, where the action is unplanned and intuitive. After the performance we will meet for a talk over coffee and cakes! The event is open for everyone, either you want to perform or as an audience.

PS: we will try to organize co-driving, please let us know if you want to participate in the event at post@performanceartbergen.no

PAB OS Authenticity

in conjunction with B-Open 2020

September 26th at 17.00

Engen, Bergen

This edition of PAB OS happens as a part of B-Open, an annual art-festival with a main focus on open artist-studios, in addition to several other events.

Please remember to keep distance as adviced. Even so, the space is available for everyone who wishes to experiment, play and test ideas, individually or with each other. Together we will explore the concept of collective performance.

PAB OS /September Equinox, A Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy

September 22th 2020, 18.00

Festplassen, Bergen

This project developed from the Bbeyond symposium, Being in Public, Encounters, Outside Space and Inner Space, April 2017 and was proposed by Chumpon Apisuk who stated that:“It is the day that all states must recognise and allow actions from the people which are ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-violent’. This day of action can be with or without context, but for the recognition of all people’s rights to share the public space together, in solidarity with each other, in respect of each others rights to share the same public space, as well as the time.”

Everyone is welcome to join, participating with performative actions or as spectator.

This event is also part of the celebration of Bergen 950år: https://www.bergen950.no/ka-skjer/KjsOReSP

PAB OS Symbolic
June 6th 2020 at 12.00
Meeting place is at Skansen, Bergen

PAB Open Session welcomes you to our next group performance! We are so happy that we again can meet, perform and share actions together.

Please remember to keep distance as adviced. Even so, the space is available for everyone who wishes to experiment, play and test ideas, individually or with each other. Together we will explore the concept of collective performance.

For more info about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/260796441946892/

PAB OS Passing Time

March 6th 2020 at 1700

USF Verftet

As an extension of BIPF Hour at Kunstgarasjen February 28th-Marsch 1st , we’re inviting everyone to join in on this first PAB OS event of 2020, on March 6th at 5 pm in Utestua at USF Verftet.

The space is available for everyone who wishes to experiment, play and test ideas, individually or with each other. Together we will explore the concept of collective performance.

Artist Talk 7.30-2200 pm:
Following the Open Session we will move over to Hordaland Kunstsenter for a social gathering combined with some snacks and an artist talk by Marilyn Arsem.

PAB OS: Decoration
6 december 2019
“Atelier Fernanda Chieco” - Stolengaten 10 a, Bergen

On behalf of the PAB OS team - Pavana Reid is arranging PAB OS: Decoration. Friday 6th December at Atelier Fernanda Chieco as part of Vitrine Project.

Theme: Decoration which relate to the festive time of the year. The open session will take place in a corner room inside the gallery and the duration will be 1 hour. After we finish, the stage of the gallery will be left as it is, to display the traces to the public until the evening of Sunday 8th December. The participants can collect their materials after 16.00 at the atelier.https://www.facebook.com/events/612965152579012/

PAB OS DRAW
Herdla Museum -Herdla fort
Sunday 27. of October 13:00-15:00

PAB OS and Bergen Akt and Croquis (BAC) welcomes everyone to Herdla museum for a two hour open session. We will investigate how performance can be viewed and captured through drawing.

You are welcome to participate, either as an audience or as a performer. After the performance there will be a concert by the duo Amasia (150,-) and you will also have the opportunity to see Torild Stray's in progress- drawings from the cultural landscape at Herdla. More information at PAB OS DRAW -facebook

Photo: Petter Lønningen

Photo: Petter Lønningen

PAB OPEN/PAB OPEN SESSION
October 6th- Time: 12:00-2.00 pm
Grand Hotel terminus - 5. floor - Room 510 Roald Amundsen

PAB Open Session * welcomes participants of the festival PAB OPEN and everyone else with an interest in improvised group performances to participate in a two-hour festival-impro in room 510. The room is available for everyone who wishes to experiment, play and test ideas, individually or with other performers inside the space. No registration are required, you are free to come and go as you please!

OPEN Session - Culture night - Anonymity
Time 13 sept. Torgallmenningen

"Among the Trees"
Blåmannsvannet - 25 aug. time 12.00-15.00

Performance Art Bergen (PAB) invite you to join our next PAB Open Session/ "Among the Trees" in August.The three hours long Performance improvisation on one of the seven mountains close to city of Bergen.

You are welcome to take part or be there as an audience. We will meet at Brushytten before 12.00 on Sunday 25th August 2019.
PAB also welcome two artists from Bbeyond ( performance art organisation from Belfast) Eleni Kolliopoulou and Rebecca Strain to join the session as a part of a mini exchange between PAB and Bbeyond.