Synopsis:

Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2025 (POA), T:>Works' cultural touchpoint returns with its third iteration. Following the successful live gatherings of Per°Form Fellows from the Global South in 2023 and 2024, this year's edition features a line-up of 17 Per°Form Fellows. They include eminent thought leaders and cultural innovators across diverse fields of contemporary indigeneity, curation, research, education, visual culture, disability-access, and performance. These Fellows will present their strategies for activating contexts and communities, raising provocative possibilities for staying alive in these uncertain times. Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2025 comprises three components:

7–22 February: The Mentor Series and Public Workshop by Marc Brew featuring leading voices in transformative practices

12–15 February: POA Opening Studio: Contemporary Indigeneity, a week-long immersive engagement with the arts, social-political and heritage ecologies of Nepal with eight diverse indigenous artists from collectives ArTree Nepal and Kalā Kulo

24–28 February: POA Closing Studio: Embodiments and Exhibitions helmed by conceptual artist and choreographer Xavier Le Roy, examining the effects of generated movement materials on the qualities of relationships between performers and between spectators and performers