Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations ends a glorious 15-hour marathon, with a rewarding feast. A meal welcomes us as our first and only intermission for the day.

From the struggle for human rights to the defence of the rights of nature and other species, an adventure for the decolonization of planet Earth and the future of other planets.

This presentation will be sharing the artist’s unique approach to artistic activism, while making a case for why dance can be a solid tool for change locally and globally.

Drawing from their extensive body of work, Selma and Sofiane discuss the stages and strategies of the body/bodies as a powerful vessel for creative, political and social action.

This film looks at the bodies, lives (and afterlives) and livelihoods entangled within the shipbreaking industry, and asks us to consider its costs, and to assign culpability.

This plea attempts a different movement. We use “plea” to make it our own and dynamise its meaning.

Aziz presents three projects “In Search of Baba Singh” (2019), “Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas” (2022) and “The World that Belongs to Us” (2023)

Diamantina Arcoiris shares the journey and experiences of working with the individuals whose silences, self-doubt, shame, rejection and hopeless are re-fashioned.

Chathuri invokes and harnesses a cross disciplinary performative language of speculative reclamation.

We search for our silences, and subsequently create pathways in the field of art education in Nepal. We develop a taste for different ways of telling stories, listening, and sometimes magic happens.

In this presentation documenting lived experiences in Sri Lanka, we explore how ‘performing coloniality’ impacts the everyday lives of women sex workers today.

Marianne shares her ways of imagining a future to come for a city that is threatened by the rise of the sea level.