EARLY BIRD PRICE: €350 until 9 March 2025
REGULAR FEE: €390 – it costs you less than 8€ per hour 🙂
Price includes coffee, tea, snacks + we try to organise collective lunch to share the costs. Price does NOT include travel and accommodation costs, but we try to connect participants to share accommodation costs – simply let us know about it in your application form.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 31 March 2025
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, meaning that studies may fill up before the closing date.

Maximum 12 participants

13 April 2025: official start 10:00 until 17:00, at Salon am Moritzplatz (Oranienstrasse 58, 10969 Berlin)
13 – 17 April 2025: practical studies and research (10:00 – 18:00)
18 April 2025: public presentation at Salon am Moritzplatz
19 April 2025: reflection, brunch and closing day, departure (15:00)

Visit our Library to take a closer look at our previous Studies documented in a process publication.

• pedagogical, artistic and technical guidance of experienced artist and performance art professor BBB Johannes Deimling with assitance of visual artist Monika Deimling
• exploring performance art through a variety of unique performative exercises, experiments, games and assignments
• collaborating with other like-minded people with different experiences, backgrounds and nationalities
• program adjusted to the group dynamics and individual needs
• contacts with artists, curators and art institutions
• final public presentation at Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin, Germany
• photo documentation by Monika Deimling and video documentation of the final presentation
• tons of inspiration, practical and theoretical knowledge, new experiences
• and many more that is dependent on your engagement

In the age of constant acceleration, we live in a world where time is often a commodity, measured in hours, minutes, and seconds. We schedule, we rush, we multitask. But in performance art, time is not just a tool or a constraint – it becomes a medium. The exploration of time through long-durational or short-duration performance is an invitation to reconsider how we experience it and how it shapes both the artist and the audience.

Time is both a personal and collective experience. Our perception of time, our engagement with its passing, and its varying speeds reflect broader shifts in society. In a world that demands immediacy, long-durational performance challenges the need for quick fixes or instant gratification. It becomes an exploration of endurance, of slowing down, of stretching and expanding moments into something rich and dense. Meanwhile, short-duration performance, in contrast, heightens intensity, compressing meaning into brief encounters and fleeting moments, challenging the audience’s capacity to process and engage in an accelerated reality. 

Duration becomes a tool that confronts the audience’s expectations and their relationship to time. Through extended durations, we confront the audience with the uncomfortable, the mundane, the stillness of time, and often, their own limitations. During our researches we will ask questions that may not have clear answers. How long can we sustain attention? How does the passage of time affect emotional states, cognition, or perception? What happens when we stop and simply let time unfold? Can we compress experience into a momentary flash? Duration in performance art becomes a critical tool for reflecting on the way we live now, and how we might choose to experience time differently.

In PAS | 94, we explore time as a transformative tool in performance art. Through a series of experimental exercises, participants will engage with both long and short durations, searching the limits of how time can reshape meaning and perception. This process will culminate in public presentations, where the artworks will unfold in real-time, offering the public a chance to experience time in an embodied way. Through these works, we will explore the complexities of duration and its potential to provoke new understandings of our own relationship to time.

BBB Johannes Deimling as a teacher
Visual artist working with performance art, film, drawing and sound. He is the founder and artistic director of PAS | Performance Art Studies.
https://www.bbbjohannesdeimling.de

Monika Deimling as a critical observer and photographer
Visual artist working with photography, embroidery and film. She is a creative manager and photographer of PAS | Performance Art Studies.
https://www.monikadeimling.com/art-projects

We are very happy to collaborate with Salon am Moritzplatz in Berlin, Germany for PAS #94.

Performers with the most diverse backgrounds find a platform for their performance in the Salon am Moritzplatz.
Here, people experiment, exhibit, perform, make music, read, reflect and exchange ideas. Interaction takes centre stage,
which is why the Salon sees itself as a space for discourse in the traditional sense.

Moritzplatz is a place with a special history. The salon is located at the interface between the fragmentarily preserved Luisenstadt and the relics of social housing from the post-war period. The window front is reminiscent of the former shop at the beginning of the 20th century. Finally, the roundabout as a front garden recalls the border between the Cold War blocks, which ran through Heinrich-Heine-Straße in the immediate vicinity.

The architecture of the site is discreetly harmonised and offers space for interaction and concentration. The rooms are directly connected to the city through their location and windows. While the city pulsates outside, the history of the premises can be experienced on the ground floor. The old, heavy vault door in the basement bears witness to the previous bank branch.

By Farnoosh A. Nik
“You managed somehow to ACTIVATE my creative spirit and provided the opportunity to expose it to others and to hear from them and to look into other’s mind and to WATCH ACTIVELY and to LISTEN RESPONSIVELY which are amazing skills that I forgot I have and I forgot to pleasure them.“

By Kevin Meehan
“I very very very much appreciated the “there is no wrong or right” motto and you sticking to it! I have heard these very words from other teachers and then very quickly it is revealed that there is in fact a “wrong”. But throughout the PAS Study I felt a growing freedom, a deeper confidence, and a respect for my gut impulses.”

By Veronika Merklein
“And there it was: “Trust your image, your action, yourself!”. PAS empowered me to take MY (performance) art more serious, called my attention to the structures of performances, co-performers in performances and especially really precisely to materials and objects. All in all, I learnt a general attentiveness and it gave me the needed boost to grow up and risk.” – (Veronika Merklein)

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5In the case of cancelling the confirmed spot, the Participant is entitled to a full refund, if PAS | Performance Art Studies receives a notice about it via email, 30 days before the program. If the notice is shorter than 14 days before the program, the fee is going to be returned only if a replacement is found by the Participant.

If the program is cancelled by PAS | Performance Art Studies, the Participant receives a full refund of the fee.

In the case of cancelling the confirmed spot by the Participant, PAS | Performance Art Studies needs to receive a notice about it via email:
– minimum 30 days before the program, the participant is entitled to a full refund,
– 20 – 29 days before the program, the participant is entitled to a 50% refund, unless a replacement is found by the Participant,
– shorter than 20 days before the program, the fee is going to be returned only if a replacement is found by the Participant.

If the program is cancelled by PAS | Performance Art Studies, the Participant receives a full refund of the fee.

– How to register?
Please fill the form to register for the classes: here. Wait for the confirmation, transfer the fee and you are ready to go.

– I registered but didn’t cover the fee. Is my workshop spot reserved?
Unfortunately not, your place is fully booked only when you cover the fee.

– I am interested in Performance Art but have not much experience, can I take these classes?
Of course, you can, moreover, you should 😉 The PAS teaching method is structured in a way, that no matter what stage you are in you will gain from the process and can further develop your interests.

-I am already an experienced performance artist, will I learn anything new?
Yes, you will, under one condition – you will attend the class with full dedication 😉

– I would need a letter to apply for covering my participation fee / accommodation / travel. Can you provide such a letter?
No problem with that. You just need to provide us with some details and we can send you the letter.

– Can I apply for a scholarship?
Unfortunately, we cannot provide scholarships. We can support you by sending invitation letters if you want to apply for some grants. Besides, we offer payment by instalments.

– I am an art student at a university. Is it possible that my whole class takes part in this course?
Yes, reach out to us and we will help you with further steps.

Were your questions still not answered? Write us an email: pas@bbbjohannesdeimling.de