The project has received a three-year grant from the EU Creative Europe Programme under its ‘Cooperation Project’ strand. Its primary partners are the Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels (Bozar – Belgium), MUDAM - Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), CAC Contemporary Art Centre (Lithuania), Serralves Foundation (Portugal), TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Spain), and Triennale Milano Teatro.

Between 2024 and 2027, ‘Perform Inform Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums’ (PIT) will explore new forms of live activation between bodies and museums. Performances can nurture and deepen relationships between citizens and museums in Europe, proposing new paradigms for participatory and intergenerational dialogues. Yet, their production, circulation and presentation of performances present challenges, raising various ethical, environmental, technical and, of course, artistic questions.

"Living a space" declares Umberto Angelini, Artistic Director of Triennale Milano Teatro, "reinventing it and traversing it with gestures, images, and bodies in connection with objects and other bodies, like those of the visitors-spectators, means building and redefining, in the present, a place of community, listening, and vision".

How can we enhance the recognition, mobility and visibility of performance art and its added value for museums and, more globally, for society? What can it offer to communities, artists and art institutions? How can performance art offer spaces and moments of interaction and negotiation between different generations of artists and citizens, from young people to the elderly?

Through newly commissioned performances, professional workshops, research activities, film screenings, or debates taking place in six European countries, PIT seeks to bring answers to these questions and propose new ways to engage and activate our bodies in museum spaces.