page_title: VestAndPage
section_title: Long durational performances
hierarchical_section_title: VestAndPage / Major works and projects / Long durational performances
caption_attribution_description: English: Andrea Pagnes in the performance 'Bist Du glücklich?', Kulturbrauerei Berlin, 2008
context_page_description: VestAndPage is an artist duo founded in 2006 by Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, working in contemporary performance art, visual art, and film. Their work is positioned within the social, political and environmental context of spherology, fragility, memory activation and communication, with a strong influence of the artists’ backgrounds in philosophy and theatre. They present meditative and ritualistic performances that challenge impermanence, transformation and self-awareness.
  Over the past years they have presented their work extensively in Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia. They work in extensive collaborations in what they call "collective performance operas", and create "temporary artistic communities".
  An untitled controversial work presented in Singapore in 2011, involves the couple drinking Pagnes' blood. The artist stated in an interview that blood is "the purest part of me", and that "I am using drops of my soul to say something."
caption: Andrea Pagnes in the dog crate. Photograph by Simone Donati.
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