About us - IPA

The International Performance Association (IPA)

The International Performance Association (IPA) is an expanding network of process oriented artists, devoted to cultural awareness through the professional practice of performance art. IPA strives to provide a platform for such artists from all over the globe to exchange ideas and initiate progress in the world of performance art. Founded as IPAH e.V. in 2006, we have formed a series of workshops, performance festivals and meetings that encourage the development of participants‘ artistic endeavors. In 2012 the original organization was split. IPAH e.V. still remains in Hildesheim/Germany. The original IPAH Summercamp and the Platform For Young Performance Artists is from now on organized by IPA, seated in Hanau/Germany, under the new title IPA Summer. In 2012, IPA Istanbul was established as partner organizations.

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Heike Pfingsten, Meeting of Performance Art, Hildesheim 2006; Photographer: Jürgen Fritz

I PA arose from a seminar, which Jürgen Fritz had held in winter 2005 at the University Hildesheim. In spring 2006 he founded together with students the International Performance Association Hildesheim (IPAH e.V.). In summer 2006, the first summercamp with students from the University took place. The first teachers had been Boris Nieslony and Jürgen Fritz. In autumn 2006, the first meeting for Performance Art was organized, already with the partizipation of international artists: Marylin Arsem USA), Clemente Padin (Uruguay), Gusztav Üto (Romania), Boris Nieslony and Christopher Hewitt from Germany. A special thanks for the development and commitment to the IPAH e.V. shall include: Adina Bier, Malte Beisenherz, Markus Gustav Brinkmann, Lisa Bauer, Tesi Gburek, Nadine Grobeis, Sascha A. Hermeth, Mayte Kappel Rovira, Isa Lange, Malte Pfeiffer, Heike Pfingsten, Kathrin Weber - Krüger and Sina Wachenfeld.

Jürgen Fritz, Performance mit Black Market International, Aalborg 2015, Photographer: Peter Lind

J ürgen Fritz is the artistic director of the IPA Summer. Since the founding of IPAH e.V. he is instrumental in the design and implementation of all events.1982 – 1990 he worked as a theater director, curator and actor, since 1984 as performance artist. He is co-founder of Black Market International, since the beginning of this international Cooperation of Performance Artists with whom he works since 1985. He showed his performances in all countries of Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico Asia and Australia. Since 2012 he lives as free lance artist in Hanau, Germany. He is co- founder of the International Performance Association (IPAH, registered association) and artistic director of the festival of performance art ZOOM!, co-founder and co-organizer of the Platform for Young Performance Artists and the IPA Summer. Since 1995 he is a lecturer in performance art at different Universities in Germany.

IPA Organisers

Jolanda Jansen, NL

IPA The Hague 2017

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Jolanda Jansen studied art at the Royal Academie of Art in The Hague. After this, she undertook a Masters degree at DAI; The Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. Since 2007 she has been an artist in Video and Performance Art. In 2007 she established with 3 other artists in The Hague, the art collective; ‘stichting STeC’. Their organization strives to make Site Specific projects at original spaces. They collaborated, amongst others, with id11 in the Flatland project in Delft, a site-specific project. They presented the initiative at the ArtPie (Kunstvlaai) in Amsterdam. In 2009, Jansen was selected to participate in the Mentoring Program for emerging artists and curators of Cultuur en Ondernemen where she worked with as mentor, the artist Ulay. During one of her artistic projectS, she met Lisetteh and after this they initiated the P.S. Performance Festival in The Hague in 2015. She has made several trips to do workshops in Europe to deepen her experience and grow artistically; PAS studies, by Johannes Deimling (Ge), IPA by performance duo Vest And Page (Ge/It) and a workshop by performance duo Zierle & Carter (Uk).

www.jolandajansen.nl

Lisetteh, NL

IPA The Hague 2017

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Lisetteh studied fine arts at the academie for visual arts in Tilburg, The Netherlands, Cleveland College Fine Arts Middlesbrough, UK and Academie of fine arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Since 1997 she has worked as a visual artist in especially drawing, graphic art, installations and life installations, collage/assemblage. In 1998-2004 she worked as an artist in Antwerp and Mechelen and produced and curated her first Art shows. When she moved to TAC Eindhoven in 2005 she met new artists with whom she undertook interesting art projects.(such as the "verstand van smaak" series in different cities of Holland and abroard) on moving back to 's-Hertogenbosch she started working with bART and CBK 's-Hertogenbosch. She started up some new Art projects about collaborations between different artists in different disciplines. This travelled around in the south of Holland ( "Match", ) and she created the first "Big Draw" in 's-Hertogenbosch), this is where she met Jolanda Jansen and out of this grew among other things the collaboration for P.S. Performance Festival the Haque, in 2015.

www.lisetteh.com

Eva Martino

IPA Bristol 2015, Creative Producer

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Fay Stevens

IPA Bristol 2015, Curator

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Valentina Chirita

IPA Bucharest 2014, Coordinator

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Performer, writer and member of the collective EGG NO EGO. See the Webpage

Irinel Anghel

IPA Bucharest 2014, Event Coordinator

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Irinel Anghel – All-round artist (vocal performer, composer, improviser, performance artist, soundactor, soundancer). Her activities are devoted to the experimental crossing borders art. Homepage

Alexandra Sutru

IPA Bucharest 2014, PR

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Alexandra is an economist passionate about artistic world.

Burçak Konukman

IPA İstanbul Director - artist

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Co-Founder member of maumau artist in residency İstanbul. Member of "Artikişler Art Collective" and Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association. Guest editor at Mondaynews-Berlin. Co-Founder of the International Performance Association (IPA) İstanbul and the Platform For Young Performance Artists İstanbul.

Özge Çelikaslan

IPA Istanbul Coordinator

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Director of Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association and member of Artikisler/Wastedworks Art Collective.Co-founder of Platform for Young Performance Artists Festival Istanbul.

Hatice Utkan

IPA Istanbul - Freelance Writer and journalist

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Hatice Utkan is a freelance writer and journalist. She is currently working at Hürriyet Daily News as an arts and culture editor. She is also continuing her academic reaserach on museum studies. She has invloved in writing articles on and about IPA (Germany-Turkey) to different papers and also organized conference events of the association in Istanbul.

Mehmet Kahramann

Ipa Istanbul Event Coordinator – Art Historian / Curator

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Coordinator of artists relations of Mixer Artgallery. Member of Diyalog Association and Koza Visual Culture Arts Association. Independent art critic and curator based in Istanbul. Responsible for the events and activities for IPA (International Performance Association) and the Festival of Young Performance Artists.