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Thu, 07/25/2013 - 6:46pm -- bipaf

Festival CLOSING PARTY and BAZAAR

Thu, 07/25/2013 - 6:25pm -- bipaf

Grace Exhibition Space
www.grace-exhibition-space.com
840 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11206
8pm-11pm

Performance artists confront commodification head-on, presenting a BAZAAR of video and photographic documentation, props, objects, and other ephemera as well as anything else performance artists have, including actions, private performances, and anything else they can think of to trade or sell.

Items from the vitrine from the Framing BIPAF Exhibition accumulated at festival homebase Glasshouse (link) will also be up for auction.

FREE ENTRY (suggested donation $5-20 towards maintaining this crucial artspace)

Image credit: David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale (1983)

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Wed, 07/10/2013 - 1:49pm -- bipaf

BIPAF Independance Day Opening Party!

Mon, 07/01/2013 - 5:02pm -- bipaf

The festival is almost upon us! Don't miss the kickoff Thursday, July 4th!
6pm-10pm
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238

What is more patriotic than performance art? The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festial is begun with words from the former first lady of the United States of America Barbara Bush about her son's painting career, and the current first lady of the performance art community on self-organization.

Featuring Martha Wilson. Emcee: Ike Ufomadu. With additional performances by Ryan Eggensperger and Dhira Rauch.

$5 suggested donation. Beer and wine available for purchase. Bring your own grill items!
http://www.jackny.org/

SUPPORT

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 8:54pm -- bipaf

SUPPORT THE BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL HERE ON INDIEGOGO - every little bit counts!

BIPAF is a mass performance. Performance artists, curators, critics, gallery directors, cultural organizers, and many others are working together to perform a festival, framing the organization and the festival itself as a work of constructive institutional critique.

Over 200 individuals are participating in this festival.

Performance art is social research, relational practice, and political assembly. Performance artists are not creating luxury objects, performance artists work with human Being, create alternative social situations, and operating across class, race, nationality, gender identity and sexual orientation, envisioning and then actualizing cultural gatherings and actions.

Right now, BIPAF participants are donating time, materials, and pooling all of their resources to make this festival happen. We see BIPAF as an epic culmination of our community's ability to pull together in absolute destitution, and to combine our practices for maximum impact. Performance art has long existed on the margins of arts industries, largely unsupported and critically neglected. As such, performance art-making, or organizing for the discipline, is not a paying job.

For International participants, BIPAF's formal no-budget structure means paying for plane tickets out-of-pocket, even for local artists this means paying for materials, transportation, and donating time. For the organizers, this means 40+ unpaid hours per week, all while we each work day jobs and/or produce our own practices. None of the spaces are rented, all are donated. The incredible generosity of artists, spaces, and curators is already demonstrably historic. We all believe so strongly in performance art as a social tool that we are compelled to work, no matter if we must do so outside of capitalist structures for reward and punishment.

To an extent, this no-budget approach is intentional, we exist via mutualism, collaboration, and simple sharing. However, we need to make a website and catalog at the very least, to make it possible for audiences to even attend the festival.

$26,000 is a bare minumum amount for making the BIPAF website, festival catalog, purchase adspace, and provide supplemental funds to the spaces for light bulbs, toilet paper, and other functional neccesities for the public. Beyond this amount, we will split funding evenly between all participants.

Grace Exhibition Space (Jill McDermid and Erik Hokanson), Panoply Performance Laboratory (Esther Neff, Brian McCorkle, Valerie Kuehne), The Woods Co-Operative (Lindsey Drury), Gowanus Ballroom, Matthew Silver, CAVE Art Space (Raul Zbengheci), No Collective, Glasshouse Projects (Lital Dotan and Eyal Perry), IV Soldiers (Ivy Castellanos), Kathinka Walters, 109 Gallery (Ryan Krause), Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics (Miles Pflanz and Laura Bluer), Teena Lange, PERFORMEANDO/Nexus Sur Nexus (Hector Canonge), Goodbye Blue Monday, JACK (Alec Duffy), and the No Wave Performance Task Force, are just a few of the current spaces, individuals/curators, and organizing entities. If you have a space, are an organizer/curator, or have other cultural resources/skills/needs, get involved! We are always open to ideas, criticism, and collaboration.

Other Ways You Can Help

Some people just can’t contribute money, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help:To volunteer time, materials, resources, housing (couch? floor?) for International artists, to get involved as a performer, visit the wiki atwww.bipaf.net/bipafwiki and e-mail bipafbipaf@gmail.com

If you would like to make a major gift, you can recieve a tax-deduction by donating through one of our fiscal sponsors. E-mail bipafbipaf@gmail.com

All contributors will be acknowledged in the festival catalogue.

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