How The Festival WorksHow The Festival WorksThe Performance Art Festival is an annual showcase for emerging and established performance artists from around the world. The open structure invites all performance artists to participate by contacting the PAF and completing an application form. Send contact info to: PAF, 1365 Webb Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44107, 216-221-6017, or e-mail at info@performance-art.org. All applications are reviewed by a regional and national panel of constituent representatives who recommend the Featured artists. These artists are awarded an artist fee, a travel stipend, accommodations and the opportunity to present special events in the community. Invitational artists are also recommended by the panel and are offered an honorarium and invited to present work at the Festival. All remaining artists are offered a stipend and invited to participate in The Performance Open.
Based on the issues discussed in the essay "Death of the Curator," the panelists for the 1996 Performance Art Festival are made up of representatives of various constituent groups critical to the Festival: performance artists, audience, media, technical artists, staff.
Lois Keidan
Director of Live Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London
Janet Grau
A PAF Featured Artist in 1996
Andrew Kaletta
Artist and Technical Director of the PAF
Roi Vaara
Performance artist fron Helsinki
Angharad Wynne-Jones
Director of The Performance Space in New South Wales, Australia
Thomas Mulready
Director of PAF
Lois Keidan
Director of Live Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London
Julie Laffin
Performance artist; PAF Featured artist in 1993 and 1995
Sally Miklowski
Performance artist, educator; PAF Featured artist in 1995
Robert Sirovica
Performance and visual artist; Technical Director of the PAF
Jean Sommer
Artist and educator
Amy Bracken Sparks
Artist, writer and critic; writes for Free Times, Dialogue and High Performance
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