Performance Art TVfounder and art director
Dec. 2016RomePerformance Art TV is a project by Italian performance artists Francesca Fini and Paola Michela Mineo: a "social TV" dedicated to the live streaming on social networks of performance art works.
The special streaming format available on the net, the use of a familiar device such as the smartphone, the ephemeral nature of communication on social networks, are all elements that provocatively overlap to idea of โโ"live" as the creative process that guides the production of any work of art.
Through the streaming of substantially abstract performative actions our "social tv" conceptually acts on many levels, to overturn even poetically the very meaning of the use of a smartphone as a filter through which we observe - or escape - the reality around us. The reality in this case returns deformed and amplified, in a game of mirrors that is no longer evasion, but crucial reflection on ourselves.
The transmissions are scheduled according to a specific program, which provides a live stream every thursday at 12:00 (if the site is an artist's studio) or after 19.00 (if the streaming regards public events in museums or art galleries). https://www.facebook.com/performancearttv/