MOMENTUM – Platform for Performance-Art is an annual international festival focusing on visual art performance. For the fourth year in a row Momentum offers a platform for internationally renowned artist and young upcoming artists who consider Performance-Art as their primary medium.The fourth edition of Momentum will take place on the 5th, 6th and 7th of June 2009 in Bains::Connective, Q-O2, La Bellone and Charleroi/Danses – La Raffinerie (workshop).

Participating artists: Danny Devos (BE), Bernd Lohaus (BE/DE), Béatrice Didier (BE), the trio Jamie McMurry (US), Helge Meyer (DE) and Julie Andrée T. (CA), Melati Suryodarmo (DE/ID), Roi Vaara (FI), Boedi S. Otong (ID/CH), the duo Amel and Elisa Andessner (AT), Jason Lim (SG), Lee Wen (SG), Chu Yia Chia (SG).

http://www.momentum-festival.org/

Collaborating partners of Momentum#4 are Bains::Connective, Q-O2, H29, La Bellone, Ricochets, Charleroi/Danses – La Raffinerie, Trouble/Les Halles, the National Arts Council Singapore, the Finnish Cultural Institute, Infr’Action Paris and Live Action Göteborg.

Momentum#4 is supported by the Flemish Community, the VGC, the Finnish Embassy and the French Community.