IMPORT/EXPORT Performance

Yesterday we had the opportunity to present our new publication at La Biblioteca di Scandicci. This inaugural event marks the beginning of a series of occasions aimed at bringing this free resource to as many interested artists, curators, and cultural professionals as possible, while sharing the knowledge gathered throughout the past three years of IMPORT/EXPORT nomadic events.

This presentation took place as part of FORMA EFFIMERA, a microfestival dedicated to performance art, organized by GOGMAGOG (Cristina Abati) in collaboration with the Municipality of Scandicci, Open City Scandicci Estate, and the Region of Tuscany.

Thank you to the audience in Scandicci for the thoughtful questions, to Cristina Abati for making this event possible, and to La Biblioteca di Scandicci for hosting us!

𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘀. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱!

Siamo lieti di invitarvi alla presentazione di IMPORT/EXPORT: A Guide to Performance Art Curation, Space, and Documentation, pubblicazione nata dall'esperienza di IMPORT/EXPORT a nomadic performance art platform, progetto europeo dedicato alla performance art contemporanea.

📍 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗮 𝗱𝗶 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗰𝗶
𝗩𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝟯𝟴/𝗔, 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗰𝗶 (𝗙𝗜)
🗓 𝟭𝟬 𝗹𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
🕕 𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟴.𝟬𝟬

La presentazione si svolge nell'ambito di FORMA EFFIMERA, microfestival dedicato alla performance, organizzato da GOGMAGOG Cristina Abati, in collaborazione con il Comune di Scandicci, Open City e Regione Toscana.

L'incontro sarà un'occasione per presentare il manuale, condividere strumenti, esperienze e prospettive sulla curatela della performance art, e aprire uno spazio di dialogo e possibili nuove collaborazioni.

𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗼. 𝗩𝗶 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗼!

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Il manuale è stato realizzato dal team curatoriale di IMPORT/EXPORT e U10 Art Collective: Jovana Trifuljesk , Bojana Jovanović Bojana Jovanović, Maja Petrović maja, Dunja Belić e Ana Simona Zelenović zelenovicas. Revisione editoriale di Sanda Kalebić Санда e del team di IMPORT/EXPORT.

IMPORT/EXPORT è co-creato dal gruppo di artisti Aleksander Zain Aleksander Zain, Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio Sharon Estacio, Enrico L'Abbate Rilaben performance intuition, Darius Bogdanowicz Da Rius e Maria Novella Tattanelli in collaborazione con U10 Art Collective U10, mowan teatro mo-wan e Flutgraben e.V. Flutgraben e.V..

✏️ Design originale della copertina di Marina Marković Marina Markovic. Le immagini aggiuntive di questo post sono state progettate da Darius Bogdanowicz con l'utilizzo dell'IA.

🇪🇺 Progetto cofinanziato dall'Unione Europea attraverso il programma Creative Europe.

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We are delighted to announce the launching of our free publication:

𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏/𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏: 𝘼 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

Read it cover to cover, or use it to solve a single question. Like the IMPORT/EXPORT project itself, there is no single path through this guide. A handful, ryzomatic compendium of tools to be used, revisited, questioned, and shared.

THE I/E PERFORMANCE GUIDE WILL BE RELEASED SOON VIA OUR NETWORKS & LIVE EVENTS

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗠 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄!

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The IMPORT/EXPORT Performance Guide is co-authored by the curatorial teams of IMPORT/EXPORT and U10 Art Collective: Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović Bojana Jovanović, Maja Petrović maja, Dunja Belić , and Ana Simona Zelenović zelenovicas. Designed by Marina Milanović marina milanović. Edited by the I/E core-group and Sanda Kalebić Санда.

IMPORT/EXPORT is co-created by the core group of artists Aleksander Zain Aleksander Zain, Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio Sharon Estacio, Enrico l’Abbate Rilaben performance intuition, Darius Bogdanowicz Da Rius, and Maria Novella Tattanelli in collaboration with U10 Art Collective U10, mowan teatro mo-wan and Flutgraben e.V. Flutgraben e.V., and through the participation of numerous collaborators and partner organizations across Europe.



🇪🇺 Co-funded by Creative Europe

At Flower Square, in collaboration with Kulturni centar Beograda, Darius Bogdanowicz Da Rius presented a video installation bringing together documentation of two past performances: “WHITE SHEET (Street Poetry on Passive Body)” and “Salvando las Distancias”, both performed in the surroundings of Moria Migrant Detention Camp in Le**os (Greece) in 2018.
“Salvando las Distancias” takes its title from a Spanish idiom meaning “saving the distances,” used to express that, apart from the obvious differences, two different things are exactly the same. The action was performed with afrobeat artist Mapipo Yeyo at the fence surrounding the camp. Walking for a stretch of a time along opposite sides of the barrier — Mapipo inside the camp where he was detained, Bogdanowicz outside — the two artists eventually crossed through an opening in the fence and exchanged positions, continuing their walk - Darius inside the camp, Mapipo outside.

“WHITE SHEET” is a participatory performance in which the artist remained still in front of the camp, while passers-by wrote their emotions, desires and dreams directly onto his body. Over time, the body became a collective poem, a cadavre exquis assembled through spontaneous encounters.

Sharon Estacio Sharon Estacio presented “Amerkána” at SULUJ, an interactive performance where she invited the audience to join her in peaceful acts of revolution through word games. The piece offered visitors a space for conversation, contemplation, and collective creation. The overall light and fun evolution of the happening generated a constellation of terms, phrases and discourses on walls, tables and other artifacts. At the end of the evening, Estacio concluded the piece by resetting the empty space and painting its walls back to white, highlighting the transitory nature of memory and communal knowledge, as well as the fragility of what a community can lose: undocumented narratives, erased perspectives, forgotten vocabularies.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade, co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain Aleksander Zain, Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio Sharon Estacio, Enrico l’Abbate Rilaben performance intuition, Darius Bogdanowicz Da Rius, Maria Novella Tattanelli ), U10 Art Collective U10 (Sanda Kalebić Санда, Jana Jovašević Jana Jovasevic, Maša Obradović Maša ⌫) and the team of curators heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović maja , Dunja Belić , Ana Simona Zelenović zelenovicas).

Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade Kulturni centar Beograda, SULUJ Gallery SULUJ, Goethe Institut of Belgrade Goethe-Institut Belgrad and Cultural Center Magacin KC Magacin

Consortium partners mo-wan, & U10

📸 Credits: Tanja Drobnjak

At Flower Square in the city center of Belgrade, Darius Bogdanowicz performed  “WHITE SHEET (Street Poetry on Passive Body)”, in collaboration with . Standing still in the busy square, the artist offered his body as a surface for pause and expression, holding markers for passers-by to write their emotions, desires and dreams. Remaining silent and without reaction, Bogdanowicz allowed the public to shape the work entirely through their gestures and words. Over time, his body became a living page, a cadavre exquis. A collective poem assembled through spontaneous encounters in Belgrade’s charged urban space.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade, co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain , Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio  , Enrico l’Abbate , Darius Bogdanowicz , Maria Novella Tattanelli ), U10 Art Collective (Sanda Kalebić , Jana Jovašević , Maša Obradović .obradovic_) and the team of curators heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko , Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović , Dunja Belić , Ana Simona Zelenović ).

Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade , SULUJ Gallery , Goethe Institut of Belgrade and Cultural Center Magacin .

Consortium partners &

📸 Credits: .cam

“There and Back” by Tiina Lehtimäki unfolded as a travelling performance
along the central Kralja Milana street, starting from Flower Square, turning at
and finishing back at Flower Square. The artist moved a found sofa, inviting passersby to
share its weight, sit, rest, chat, or simply be.
In its own way, the sofa willed the piece.
Conversations remained unscripted, and the journey unfolded at its own pace, open to
detours and the rhythms of the participants who, (un)surprisingly, were very eager to help.

IMPORT/EXPORT Belgrade was a unique, kaleidoscopic event happening across Belgrade,
co-created by the joint force of the IMPORT/EXPORT core group of artists (Aleksander Zain
, Tiina Lehtimäki , Sharon Estacio , Enrico
l’Abbate , Darius Bogdanowicz , Maria Novella Tattanelli
), U10 Art Collective (Sanda Kalebić ,
Jana Jovašević , Maša Obradović .obradovic_) and the team of curators
heading the creation of the IMPORT/EXPORT handbook (Jovana Trifuljesko ,
Bojana Jovanović , Maja Petrović , Dunja Belić ,
Ana Simona Zelenović ).

Co-funded by Creative Europe. Additional support from the Cultural Center of Belgrade
, SULUJ Gallery , Goethe Institut of Belgrade
and Cultural Center Magacin

📸 Credits: .cam