E. P. I. 
Zentrum
Europäisches Performance Institut

The PERFORMANCE RESEARCH's in E. P. I. Zentrum; Europäisches Performance Institut


- structure
- aims
- research
- sponsoring
Structure:

E.P.I. Zentrum is generally a nomadic and only temporary localised project. The cooperative artists, organizations, sponsors and other supporters come ad hoc together for researchs and will connect their special projects in any way with their own or other institutions (universities, academies of arts, artistic or scientific projects etc.) In the beginning the preparatory committees are:
a) the two basic secretaries: ASA-European e.V. (Cologne / Frankfurt a.M.) and 
b) Maschinenhaus Essen / Zeche Karl (Essen)

The E.P.I. Zentrum is international, intercultural and works independent from academic departments and their traditional borderlines.

There is no legal membership, artists and organizations can work together temporary or for a long time with the nomadic institute. 
Aims:

- New ways of information, discussion, research and the development of education and mediation in Performance Arts
- Transformations from the theoretical and practical understanding of "acting" and practice in to a general contextual, field-research-based and medial / mediated 
"practice of action" (research as acting)

- Performance as a wide and widen ethnographic and anthropological mode of perception and acting
- Performance as a critical social instrument
- Performance as a social organ of communication and exchange ("Die Gabe"/ "The Gift")
- Performance as a life-based mode of orientation and contextual / social statement of interests (Performance as the aim of E.P.I. Zentrum)
Basic Researchs I - Performance, Performance Arts and Performing Arts

Basic Researchs II - Performance as social acting and a mood of practice
Image-Research in both subjects


Theory of Performance (ethnographical, anthropological, perceptional-logical, Image-Research)
See Basic Researchs II

Practice of Performance (Image-Research, perceptional-theoretical, Practice of perception)
See Basic Researchs II

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