“Performance art is a spontaneous and unique form of artistic expression created by artists using their bodies and wisdom at a specific time and place. Its ephemeral nature makes it a one-of-a-kind experience that cannot be replicated, which is what makes it so special. For the 8th Annual Live Art Tour, we are excited to showcase this exciting and dynamic art form in vibrant and colorful New York City.
To create according to local conditions, artists will choose locations and venues that suit their unique styles, and immediately communicate with curators to organize and record their works on site. This approach not only expresses the richness and depth of Greater New York as an art center, but also highlights the unique method of performance art creation. It will provide performing artists from all over the world with the opportunity to unleash their unique energy.” - CAI QING (Curator)
Founder and curator Cai Qing [China/Germany] has gathered performance artists from around the world to immerse themselves and their art in the streets, parks and spaces in a different international city each year. This year, GES has invited Cai Qing and the curated artists to bring their vision to New York City for the first time. NYC is a stage for life, life/art, and art/life, that allows the artists to perform site-specific works at GES and on the streets, alleys and spaces throughout NYC.
The IMMERSIVE 8 Festival reacts not only to the richness and depth of Greater New York as a center for the arts, but also highlights the distinct and creative methods of performance art - with Week #3 live performance art pieces by: Cai Qing, Arahmaiani Feisal, Gao Zhiyan, and Kuan Ying-Chen.
ABOUT CAI QING
Cai Qing, PhD, was born in China and is currently a German citizen, artist, curator and art critic who is active in the field of contemporary art and performance art.
He is also involved in education at fine-art academies, leading workshops and teaching courses in contemporary art.
PERFORMERS
ARAHMAIANI FEISAL
Born in 1961 (Bandung, Indonesia) Feisal is an artist, activist, poet and writer.She has long been internationally recognized for her powerful commentaries on social, political, cultural and environmental issues. And has been working as a guest lecture in Passau University, Germany in the last 10 years (teaching every summer semester – except 2020-2021 just do it online). She also used to teach in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2006-2008). Her own identity as Muslim mediates between Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and animist beliefs. She has been working with communities dealing with environmental, social-political and cultural issue in Indonesia and abroad. Creating a long term community base art project called “Flag Project” since 2006 (she has been working with Islamic boarding school community in Yogyakarta). Then working with various community in Indonesia and abroad. And since 2010 she has been working with Tibetan monks & the lay people in Tibet Plateau dealing with environmental issue till today.
GAO ZHIYAN
Gao Zhiyan (English translation: Grace), also known as Gao Ya and Mr. Ya. Artist, poet, and freelance art creator. She has participated in exhibitions in New York, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, and Zhuhai, Beijing, and Shanghai in China. she has had two solo exhibitions. Her works involve painting, installation, performance, poetry, and commentary. multiple fields.
KUAN-YING CHEN
Kuan-Ying Chen was born in Keelung, Taiwan, in 1989, is currently an artist and doctoral student at the Institute of Art Creation and Theory, National Tainan University of the Arts. Focusing on social culture and public issues, Kuan-Ying is obsessed with several problems: the relationship between art and political power of environment, the interaction of fine art and the public, and how the art turn on new dialogue, either inside or outside the system. Through diving into the very bottom of the society, he discovered the possibility and ruminant of creativity, where people input publicity and dialogue. (Delete it according to your needs)
Ivo Ivanov (Bulgaria)
Ivo Ivanov is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural manager based in Sofia, Bulgaria. His interests and education are in text, theatre, performance, sound and image manipulation and digital art. Collaboration and understanding artistic thought flow and practice is one of his life’s main objectives. As is presenting contemporary art and independent culture to broader audiences.
He has been playing and making music professionally since the end of the last century. Under the moniker Yves O, he experiments with live visuals since 2005. Award-winning artist and participant in numerous events and festivals on several continents.
Co-founder of Studio Dauhaus, one of the first independent art spaces. Curator and organizer of some of the most avant-garde events in Bulgaria, among which is the Sofia Underground international performance art festival.