Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in Amsterdam, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum and M-Museum) in Leuven, and Tate Modern in London join together in Corpus, a collaborative network for performance in a visual arts context. Diverse in scale, character and history, these institutions all share a longstanding interest in, and engagement with performance. By exchanging our different experiences, ideas, and (re)sources through shared commissioning, production and presentation of performance-related work, Corpus aims to invest in specific practices of performance, and embraces performance's many connotations and varied intellectual kinships. Six associated partners – Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), The Kitchen (New York), KUB Arena of the Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz), OCAT (Shenzhen), Gallery at REDCAT (Los Angeles) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) – extend both the reach and the conversation.

Corpus was founded in 2012 by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution with Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum and M-Museum) and Tate Modern, and Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brétigny as an additional founding partner.

Corpus operates within a three-year rhythm, with its current phase running up to the end of 2017. During this time, twelve new performance productions are commissioned and produced across the partner institutions. Corpus' structure enables artists to develop work over time, and for these works to evolve in repertory and across platforms.

Corpus wants to create conditions within which artists can experiment, or speculate, and in which ideas can be revisited. Process and presentation are considered to be equally important, and the evolution of the series of works is considered as a part of the whole project. Corpus creates the possibilities for very specific production structures for artists, outside the usual routines of each partner institution. The collaboration between the partners thus creates new leverage in terms of the specific and heterogeneous needs of performance.

The name of the network is chosen for its meaning of "collection," and refers both to the "body of institutions" and "body of works" that intersect within its structure. In its current phase, projects are being developed with Mary Reid Kelley, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Paulina Olowska, Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Cally Spooner, Nástio Mosquito, and by Bulegoa z/b in the framework of The Book to Come.

In Corpus’ first phase, projects have been realized with Orla Barry, Tim Etchells (i.c.w. FormContent), Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Emily Roysdon, as well as research projects on Laboratoire Agit-Art and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina.

Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.