Corpus has as its main objective the production, presentation and dissemination of new performance works, addressing a professional and a general audience. The instrument for realizing these performance works is a consortium. European institutions that have established a robust expertise and legacy in the field of performance, commission artists to develop new ambitious performance work. The consortium and the performance works it produces, are supported by a network of associate partners from within and outside of Europe. In this way Corpus wants to improve performance art, stimulate the development and production of performance art, and increase the mobility of performance art within and outside Europe.The initiating institutions that have fulfilled the pilot phase of Corpus (2012-2014, strand 1.2.1) are If I Can’t Dance (NL), STUK/Museum M (BE) and Tate Modern (GB). For the second phase of Corpus (2014-2017) the consortium is welcoming Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao (ES), Kunstwerke in Berlin (DE), and CAC in Vilnius (LT) thus spreading its productions throughout west, east and south Europe. The associated partners are Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, The Kitchen and Whitney Museum in New York (US), Kunsthaus Bregenz (AT), REDCAT in Los Angeles (US), and OCAT in Shenzhen (CN).Corpus, represented by the directors and/or curators of the partner institutions, exchanges, shares and archives ideas, expertise, knowledge, and networks, to collectively initiate, produce and present ambitious performance works that each tour extensively throughout Europe. Authors of these performance works are artists from diverse, European and extra-European backgrounds, with outstanding skills. They are selected from a trans-generational perspective, allowing for encounters that articulate both legacies and current developments in performance practice.Corpus addresses audiences within the field of art and performance, and actively seeks relations with a general audience.