Starting today, a new festival at the OK and Musiktheater Linz will show new approaches to performance art. Entitled “The non-fungible body?” twenty artists from around the world deal with the function of the real body in the digital age. The festival, which runs until Sunday, is organized by Landes-Kultur-GmbH.

Vienna-based Freda Fiala and Paris-based Taiwanese performance artist River Lin serve as curators. “For example, we wonder what happens when the artist’s body enters the digital space,” says Fiala, describing one of the focal points.

One of the guests is Xavier Le Roy from France, who will present his iconic work “Product of Circumstances” tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Musiktheater. He developed this choreography in 1999 and has already performed it at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Tate Gallery in London. “This work has influenced many other artists,” says Fiala. In it, Le Roy explores what happens to an artist as he ages and how his body becomes an archive.

Sara Lanner, who studied at Bruckner University in Linz, will also barter with the public tomorrow (7:30 p.m.) in her performance “Caught in the Blockchain” at the OK: personal items for so-called tokens, in her case desired performance. Jianan Qu from China has developed with dance students from Bruckneruni a work that reflects the relationship between the body and technology: to see tomorrow (1:30 p.m., musical theater) and Sunday (8:30 p.m., OK).

Towards the end of the festival, there will be a live performance on Sunday (OK, 7:30 p.m.) with David Henry Nobody Jr., who will be connected via live chat from New York. The American is known for his colorful installations on Instagram. He has no less than 114,000 followers.

The Performance Festival (June 17-19) will open today at 7 p.m. in the Linzer OK. More information is available ooekultur.at