ACT Performance Festival

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The ACT Performance Festival of the Swiss art academies is a performance art festival which is exclusively dedicated to student work. The festival tours Switzerland every spring. In 2019 the ACT took place in Bern, Geneva, Lucerne, Sierre, Zurich and Basel.

history

The ACT project was launched jointly in 2003 by the art academies of Aarau, Basel, Bern and Zurich.

focus

The ACT Festival focuses entirely on performance work by students from the participating art schools. Above all, individual performances are shown, as well as performance videos, acoustic interventions and interactive and performative installations.

Participating art schools

Since 2003

• Zurich University of the Arts
• HGK Basel (today HGK FHNW )
• Aargau University of Applied Sciences (today FHNW )
• F + F school for art and design
• Bern University of the Arts

Since 2004

• Haute École d'art et de design Genève
• Lucerne School of Design & Art

Since 2011

• École de design et haute école d'art du Valais

Web links

• Official website of the ACT Festival

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} ACT. Retrieved May 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ACT Performance Festival of the Swiss art academies. Retrieved May 20, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ACT Performance Festival of the Swiss art academies. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .