24 Sep 2013

Live Art Festival: The Philippines meets Austria

Friday, 27. September 18:00 –19:00:
Open session of the experimental Performance Laboratory

Saturday, 28. September 17:00 – 22:00:
public presentation of Live Art projects with a Philippine buffet break at 19:00 from the Philippine Austrian Association in Linz (PAAL).

7 artistic positions of the Philippines encounter diverse artists from the European towns: Linz/A + Bale/CH + Cologen, Bonn, Essen/DE. The goal of this festival is to show various methods and models of artistic strategies of Live Art, action art and performance art. All actions, movements, interventions, interactions and performances will be located at Tabakfabrik Linz (indoor & outdoor)


Artists from The Philippines
Patrick Chong is a visual artist from Santiago City.
Thomas Daquioag compares Philippine workers in foreign countries with superheros
Boyet de Mesa's work is about people in poor situations like poverty, victims of corruption,...
Rommel Espenosa is asking questions about the life of Philippine alien employees
Yuan Mor'o Ocampo was artistic director of Pattaradday Festival 2012
Kaye O'yek is working with autobiographical topics
Mannet Villariba focuses on interactivity and visual interpretations

Artists from Austria
Aldo Giannotti, Veronika Merklein, Katrin Wölger
as well as Sibylle Ettengruber, Theresa Gindlstrasser, Claudia Hochedlinger, Christine Pfarrhofer, Doris Roth, Ilona Roth, Betty Wimmer an others.

All events will be located at Tabakfabrik Linz (Magazin A and RedSapata Tanzfabrik). Entrance: Untere Donaulände.

In cooperation with:
FAMA – Fine and Performing Arts / Elisa Andessner (AT), Boris Nielsony / E.P.I Zentrum (DE) and Gisela Hochuli, Bern (CH)