Performance Art Institute

The Performance Art Institute was established to help preserve performance art and to increase its audience. The PAI's goal is to inspire research, as well as foster creativity and collaboration among an international network of young artists, whose mediums range from performance, dance, and theater, to film, video, opera, and music. The San Francisco institute is located at 575 Sutter Street in Union Square, with two floors totalling 7,500 square feet of exhibition space and four lofts for workshops, artist residencies, and film and lecture series.