Para Site International Conference 2014 “Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The new performance turn, its histories and its institutions”

The Para Site International Conference 2014 discussed the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art. Divided into three larger chapters, the conference attempted to look at the collective history of performance art, and in the process point out and extend the boundaries of what is possible in the paradigm of art and performance today.