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OUR NEXT COURSES:

PAS | Online Classes 2025 – 2026
A series of engaging Performance Art Weekend Courses centered around specific research themes that offer exploration through practical activities and exercises, along with insightful theoretical discussions.

BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS #1″
20 – 21 September 2025 in Dresden, Germany

BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS #2″
4 – 5 October 2025 in Nijmegen, Netherlands

PAS | Online Classes 2025 – 2026

PAS | Online Class is a two-day programme dedicated to performance art, combining theory and practice in exchange with like-minded people from across the globe.

#34 REMOTE PRESENCE
8. + 15. November 2025

#35 THE TROUBLE WITH DEFINITIONS
13. + 14. December 2025

#36 SOCIAL ACUPUNCTURE
14. + 21. February 2026

#37 FRAMED BY THE WINDOW
14. + 21. March 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.

Lisa Marie Porst und BBB Johannes Deimling in einer angeregten Unterhaltung.

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? 

WHAT IS PAS?

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

PAS | TEAM

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.

BBB JOHANNES DEIMLING

PAS | Founder, Artistic Director and Leading Teacher

www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de

MONIKA DEIMLING

PAS | Creative Manager, Photographer, Teaching Assistant

www.monikadeimling.com

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PAS #43 | Places of duration #2  22. october - 7. november 2015 / Fredrikstad, Norway as part of the study program at the NTA - Norwegian Theatre Academy