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Introduction discourse This object is a performative book that can be flipped through without a linear narrative. It contains moments of encounters. In 2022, a three days performance festival took place in Biel/Bienne. Created in 2003, this festival, ACT, then celebrated its 20th edition. Whenever I have to explain the concept of ACT, I usually say it’s a performance festival for students. Each school organizes its own festival day. The students can participate to any festival organized by the schools. It is a national gathering and exchange on performative practices and performance art not only for students, but also for us, the coordinating team. Each school has one or two coordinators for the ACT festival, usually performance artists themselves that are sharing the joy and potential of performance art. For the 20th festival edition we decided to organize a three days event that hosted more than 100 performances. The performances took place in DISPO, Schlachthof / Les abattoirs, Lokal-Int, Kunsttreibhaus (Joli mois de Mai / Visarte), Centre d’art Pasquart and Public Sphere in Bienne/Biel. We give thanks to each venue for their amazing collaboration during the festival. We also owe our schools the financial, technical support and their trust: édhéa Valais / F+F School of Art and Design, Zürich / FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel / HEAD – Geneva / HSLU Lucerne School of art and Design / SfG BB School of Design Bern and Biel / Bern Academy of the Arts HKB / Zhdk Zurich University of the Arts. We also want to thank the city of Biel/Bienne, city of Sierre, city of Nidau and the Oertli Stiffung for their financial support. After the pandemic during which all the living art events were cancelled, we realized how much occasions such as ACT are important for students and more broadly for art. We realized how much this gathering matters, may be even more than art itself. Keeping this idea in mind we designed the festival, emphasizing on the relational aspect of such an event: gathering and building bridges. We thus invited external artists, special guests, former art students and participants of ACT themselves, who all proposed a workshop for the students, along the festival program: Louise Bozolec, Aziza Daou, Alex Ghandour, Till Langschied, Léa Rüegg & Marc Norbert Hörler, Lumpen Station – Andrea Marioni, Anina Müller, Jorge Raka, Gregory Stauffer. Apreperf / PANCH Resonanz in Sprache participated too by writing various texts about the performances. So what does it mean, a performative book? It isn’t an archive of the performances. You will not find beautiful images of the performances, a catalog of the artists, or decriptions of the performances itself. As the festival has a webpage that functions as an archive, pictures and texts on the performances can be discovered online: www.act-perform.net. This book is a collection of thoughts, moments, ideas, events and encounters arising while experiencing the festival. An archive of gatherings, an archive that foster the importance of sharing such moments in a student’s journey, an archive of what happened around the performances during the festival. We collected testimonials such as visuals or memories of participating students, texts generously written by Apreperf, adapted versions of the interventions by our invited artists, thoughts about act by the original founders, and the organization team: Anja Braun, Gökçe Ergör, Nicola Genovese, Linda Luv, Maricruz Pe Peñaloza, Marion Ritzmann, Anne Rochat, Darren Roshier, Davide-Christelle Sanvee, Benjamin Sunarjo, Hannah Weinberger – own experience of the festival. Some of the texts were originally written in French or German, they are all translated in English in this publication, but preferably to be read in their original language. This book is meant to be discovered. Whenever you feel like it, pick it up and let yourself float into the different contents. This will be your performance. Enjoy your own encounters flipping through this book. Darren Roshier

Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW

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