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PAS 103 | Only Dead Fish Go With The Flow
17-22 November 2026 in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Join our next PAS | Studies and get to know the theme that we prepared. We cannot create a convenient performance art workshop. We never have. Therefore, in PAS #103, we want to explore what it takes to recognise the currents around us and choose where we want to go. Through artistic experiments we will develop tools for moving differently, changing directio
Application deadline: 4 October / 8 November 2026
PAS | Online Tutoring with BBB Johannes Deimling
It is designed for artists, collectives or groups developing work or projects in the field of performance art, as well as for students working on their BA and MA thesis. Besides, it can be offered to art teachers, educators and workshop leaders who want to improve their teaching skills and concepts.
PAS #100 in Rehlovice, Czechia 2026
A video about the annivisary course by John Muse.
“The Idea Wasn’t Invited, But It Came Anyway“
Lisa Marie Porst in conversation with BBB Johannes Deimling
How are ideas generated during the development of performances in teaching and learning contexts?
PAS | Performance Art Studies is an independent art and educational research platform founded by German artist and pedagogue BBB Johannes Deimling. Since 2008, PAS is offering intensive studies, performance art workshops, courses and masterclasses for anyone interested in this art form.
The goal of PAS is to provide a comprehensive form of learning and teaching in the process of Performance Art practice, theory and philosophy.
PAS understands performance art as a social art practice that is rooted within the visual arts. This viewpoint is the base of how we understand performance art education.
At the center of our work is the artistic research process, an open and dynamic working atmosphere focused on finding out together how performance art can be used as a tool in art and society.
“We don’t know the answers to everything. But we are curious to find out together, by experimenting. Asking questions might not lead us to answers, but to other questions. Not knowing is a perfect condition for making art.”
BBB Johannes Deimling
PAS | Artistic Director and Founder
BBB Johannes Deimling and Monika Deimling are the core team of PAS supported by various artists and institutions. As visual artists and educators they aim to change the way performance art has been produced and conceptualised over time. Their shared interest is to use the practice, theory and philosophy of performance art to shape an ongoing shifting research process that reaches beyond art to reshape our perceptions and action strategies.
Since its foundation, PAS has developed into a community of artists, researchers and educators who explore performance art as a tool for social action and the activation of individual and collective action to share this knowledge with other fields within and beyond the arts.
PAS | Founder, Artistic Director and Leading Teacher
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