Lilith Performance Studio Information

Lilith Performance Studio is a non-profit arts organization and an independent arena for visual art performance. The Studio commissions and initiates new major visual art performances by inviting visual artists from around the world, some of whom have never worked live before. Each year, selected artists are given the unique opportunity to realize and present a new large-scale performance on site in the studio in Malmo, or elsewhere in the city, during a longer period of time and in close collaboration with the studio. The invited artists get a great chance to explore their own artistic expression and to work in a larger scale including all aspects in creating a new art work. The invited artists have a distinctively individual artistic mode of expression and integrity when it comes to idea as well as method, artists that also share an interest in exploring their work in relation to the studio as an experimental site. The artists are encouraged to expand their artistic vision through the use of live performance, resulting in unique productions. During a production residency period in Malmo the artists are given a great opportunity to focus on all the parts of a live piece: site, time, staging, participants and audience. A Lilith Commission artist will receive significant financial and production support to experiment and realize innovative new works, in close collaboration with the studio from conceptualization to presentation. Lilith Performance Studio opened in 2007 in Malmo, Sweden and has since the inception created 45 commission-solo performances, several curatorial collaborations, guest appearances and festivals. As a production space and an arena for visual art performance, the studio is the first of its kind in the world. The studio was founded and is run by the artists and artistic directors Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson. The studio is an old industrial space, originally constructed for one of the cities former textile factories located in the south part of the city center of Malmo. Lilith ...