ABOUT MIAMI PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Founded in 2012 as Miami's first performance art festival, M/P has become a central platform for the city's crossover between performance and sound and noise experimentation, connecting established noise musicians with younger artists exploring similar territory. This unique event gives Florida and international audiences the opportunity to learn from and be exposed to some of the finest contemporary international artists creating performance art today.
Throughout the years, M/P has featured the work of artists from around the world, including Japan, Germany, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Panama, China, Poland, Austria, Guatemala, USA, Romania, India, Spain, Iran, Korea, France, and Brazil.
Marianna Angel is a Miami-based artist working across collage, performance, and video. Her practice centers around photography as a voyeuristic medium, used to document moments in suspension—glimpses into memory, intimacy, and fragmented identity. Often drawing from devices of self-portraiture, Angel positions herself as both artist and subject, re-articulating the exhibitionist quality of being seen. Even in her non-figurative works, she remains present—the output reading as diaristic traces, quietly cataloging the emotional residue of personal timelines.
Lisa Kusanagi is a Tokyo-born interdisciplinary artist working across choreography, film, and visual arts. Her performances, films, and visual installations have been presented in over 30 countries at venues including Film at Lincoln Center, Harlem Stage, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Miami Light Project, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Cineteca Nacional México, and the BAFTA-qualifying 10th Aesthetica Film Festival. Her work pursues visceral vulnerability that merges rigorous form with quirky humor, bold physicality, and social commentary.
Edge Zones will present the 15th edition of the Miami Performance International Festival (M/P '26) on September 3, 4 and 5, 2026, at its Miami art center and on Edge Zones' YouTube channel. This year's edition, titled Rituals for Uncertain Futures, will feature more than 20 performance works, along with artist talks, workshops, and outdoor performances. All events are free and open to the public.
Co-Curators: Estefanía Papescu and Charo Oquet
SCHEDULE
September 3, 2026 | 5:00 – 6:00 PM | M/P '26 Video Festival — Online via YouTube
September 4, 2026 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM | M/P '26 Artist Talk — Edge Zones Art Center
September 5, 2026 | 6:00 – 10:00 PM | M/P '26 Live Performance - Edge Zones Art Center
Rituals for Uncertain Futures asks what it means to practice ritual amid ongoing instability. The works in this year's festival treat the body as both a site and an instrument — a place where memory, ancestry, and belonging are held, and where displacement, migration, and environmental change are confronted. Through collective actions, processions, and participatory pieces, alongside improvisational and durational works, the program engages themes of care, healing, and resistance as contemporary ritual practice.
Performances, video screening and conversation take place both inside Edge Zones' gallery, virtually and in outdoor and non-traditional spaces, responding directly to the city's cultural and ecological landscape. Participating artists work across performance art, movement-based practice, sound, installation, and socially engaged art, and represent both emerging and established voices in the field.
Live Performance Participants: Mariana Angels | Dimitry Chamy | Girl Heaven, Jurj Kojs, Katelyn Kopenhaver, Lisa Kusanagi, Meshi Vital, MyFiStudio, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Richard Verges & Carlos Bonil
Video Performance: Participants To be announced
Talk Participants: Lisa Kusanagi , Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Richard Verges & Carlos Bonil. Moderators: Estefanía Papescu and Charo Oquet