White shirt moment

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White shirt moments
Since PAS | Performance Art Studies was founded in 2008 the final presentation of performances was always an important part at the end of the process of the PAStudies.
Even the final presentation is just another point in the performative process; it is a summary of the researches and experiences made during the study time. It is simply
wonderful to observe how a performance art piece get’s into shape during the working period. Often during the first tasks and exercises a theme is found and is constantly
researched in the following ones. To me the final presentation is important, but the most joy I feel during the work where ideas are raw, actions are more intuitive and not
‘ready yet’, when material choices are pure and improvisation is the main tool of an artistic articulation. In these processes a lot of valuable questions are raised up and
often they are not made to be answered but more to keep the artistic research vivid. Those processes before the final presentation bears a potential that can influence the
outcome for one performance and it can affect a whole artistic strategy. As soon the working process gets to the final presentation it is interesting to observe how - out of
plenty ideas - the decisions are made for the final performance. Without the final performance we would be not able to prove if the decisions that we took were good or bad
ones, because at the final presentation there is as well the audience and the official character of the presentation that lifts up the whole energy.
The final and public presentation of a performance is for PAS a special moment and as well a social event. The creative act in front of an invited audience we always treat like
we would invite guests to our house. It is a celebration day, a valuable moment when we ask the people that will come to our events, not to sit in front of the television and
not to meet their friends for dinner, we ask them to come to the gallery and witness that what we have thought and worked out the past days. It is what PAS calls the ‘White
Shirt Moment’, a special moment where we celebrate the moment of creation.
To present after an intensive PAStudies a public performance is the aim of PAS. PAS provides a professional setting for the final event with posters, invitation cards, invited
audience, curators and artists and as well photographers and videographers, who are documenting the performance. To give the studies a professional shape is an educational