MOMENTUM - Platform for Performance-Art is an annual international festival focusing on visual art performance.
For the fifth year in a row Momentum offers a platform for internationally renowned artist and young upcoming artists who consider Performance-Art as their primary medium. Throughout the festival the audience has the opportunity to discover the many facets of Performance-Art. Momentum is a place where public, artists and curators can meet and exchange ideas.
The festival weekend with its two nights of performances will again be accompanied by a Performance-Art workshop offering the opportunity to its participants to research and discover the practice of Performance-Art.
In the weeks leading up to the festival and in collaboration with different partners in Brussels Momentum co-organizes several parallel events focussing on Performance-Art.
For the first time this fifth edition of Momentum also contains a residency programm which enables young international Performance Artists to create and present their work in Belgium.
The fifth edition of Momentum will take place on the 4th, 5th and 6th of June 2010 in the spaces of Art2Work/Bellevue - Creative Brewery and Charleroi/Danses - La Raffinerie (workshop).
Participating artists: Angie Seah (SG), Los Torreznos (ES), Irma Optimist (FI), Ronaldo Ruiz (PH), Dorothea Rust (CH), Markus Goessi (CH), Mikes Poppe (BE), Emilio López-Menchero (BE), Jürgen Fritz (DE), Shima (BR)
Collaborating partners of Momentum#5 are ART2WORK / Bellevue - Creative Brewery, Q-O2, Wiels, Trouble/Les Halles, Charleroi/Danses - La Raffinerie, Bains::Connective, La Bellone, ZSenne art lab and LiveArtWork.
Momentum#5 is supported by the Flemish Community, the French Community, The Brussels-Capital Region, the Finnish Cultural Institute, Singapore International Foundation, National Art Council Singapore and Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung.
*** During Momentum#5 a team of young artists and writers will post daily about their impressions on the performances they see at Momentum on our blog. See: http://momentumfestival.wordpress.com/
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