pETER Purg: Quo vadis? (participative crucifixion performance)
ACE KIBLA / Kiblix 2018
pETER Purg: Quo vadis?
(participative crucifixion performance)
11. 11. 2017, 20.00
ACE KIBLA / Kiblix 2018
When asked /Quo Vadis//? /(Where are you gong?), Saint Peter decided to follow Jesus back to Rome, where he was crucified upside down.
In this performance, the babylonian condition of different migration vectors and communication codes is reflected by inverted mobile media.
Each KIBLIX pilgrim should upload their short video (of 5 to 15 seconds) to
Use your language to tell /– Where are you going?/
pETER Purg explores and teaches New Media (Art). He acts as a performer and media artist, but also as an expert in the area of academic quality, a juror, consultant, and coordinator of projects and networks. He is head of the New Media module within the Digital/Media Arts and Practices graduate/postgraduate programs at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, where he acts as associate professor and international project manager. Having obtained a PhD in media art and communication and literature sciences from the University of Erfurt, his current scientific inquiries include media arts pedagogy, (inter)cultural management, media ecology and interdisciplinary collaboration. His artistic interests range from intermedia and didactic performances to interactive installations, as well as web art, sound art and body art, with a particular focus on public space. He led the interdisciplinary collective Bobnars United, organizing over a hundred musical and intermedia events and several research projects, and is a co-author of anti-consumerism interventions for the Podgana PPP street performance group.