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postgraduate program, research center

2012 BLOCK II

1 May-31 July 2012

 

 

 

Researchers Participants in the Postgraduate Program

Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld
Carlotta Scioldo
Catherine (Clé) Lé
Elise Goldstein
Elizabeth Ward
Fleur Ordoukhani
Helena Dietrich
Ive Leemans
Jaime Llopis
Luanda Casella
Lucie Eidenbenz
Oshin Albrecht
Simon Loeffler
Veridiana Zurita

 

Partners

PAF Performance Art Forum
Nadine
De Singel

 

Contributors for workshops

Anja Steglich
Ant Hampton
Caroline Daish
Elizabeth Ward
Elke Van Campenhout
Julie Pfleiderer
Nicolas Galeazzi
Paz Rojo
Vladimir Miller

 

Coordinators a.pass

Bart Van den Eynde
Elke van Campenhout

 

Mentors

Ana Hoffner
Nicolas Galeazzi
Peter Stamer
Pierre Rubio

 

 

 

 

 

07 – 11 / 05 & 14 – 18 / 05 / 2012


‘HIGHER PERFORMANCE’
workshop by Nicolas Galeazzi & Elizabeth Ward


The current economic crisis is not only a result of some major failures in speculating practices, it is the outbreak of the constant crisis inherent to the system. Since many years a precarious and dangerous economic climate has been created through the exploitation of the society and the environment in the believe in constant growth and a policy relying on the infinite creation of money for some through the creation of infinite debt for the majority.
The current cuts of public funding and the absence of interesting jobs are just some visible signs of the consequences of governmental reaction towards the 2008 crisis. Arts all over Europe are now more concretely targeted for cuts then ever in the last 40 years.
In this climate, artists are forced to rethink their relationship to economics. We have to leave our triple position as critiques, prototypes and profiteers of the system, and rethink our relation to the protection through governmental funding. This can not be done by making art in a more ‘economic’ way.
This workshop rather launches a discussion about the repositioning of the economic field towards the arts by “occupying” and appropriating the “economics” and its terminology and fill it with new practices and new meaning. We will occupy the vocabularies, the practices and the appearance of the economy and to open it to a wider spectrum of life than just a financial success. For that we have to ask, what do we expect from future life? What is it what we really are ‘dealing’, ‘trading’ with? What is our currency? What kind of an economy could we establish out of an artistic (researching) practice which will make a real difference?
In order to compare and relate the differing understandings of ‘performance’ in a practical and discursive way, we will setup a lab where artistic performances and economic performances should coexist, contradict and corrupt each other.

 


21-25 / 05 / 2012


‘SEEING SOUND’
two workshops by Julie Pfleiderer and Ant Hampton


‘Soundwalk’
German director Julie Pfleiderer and performance artist Caroline Daish have invited guest artists, including David Helbich, Joanna Baillie & Paul Craenen for the May Soundlab “Seeing Sound”. The idea is to create 10 days around Sound and Performance in the context of Soundwalks and inviting an expansive interpretation of the form ‘Soundwalk’.
‘Fantasy Intervention’
“Fantasy Intervention” is a workshop by Ant Hampton on imagination and writing for site-specific theatre and live urban interventions. With a focus on observation imagination and writing and involving walks in the city, discussion, film and photography the workshop culminates with a series of presentations.

 


28 / 05 – 01 / 06 / 2012


‘COLLABORATION AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH’
a.pass Basics workshop by Elke Van Campenhout


Every block, a.pass organizes some ‘B-workshops’: workshops that focus on the basic principles of a.pass as a working environment. Every B-workshop is accompanied by a reader of texts and information that will be the starting point for discussion and a platform for (re)-thinking the a.pass working environment. In the upcoming blocks we will gather around topics like ‘collaboration’, ‘self-organization’, ‘tools, cases and other methodologies for artistic research’, ‘feedback and critique’, ‘collaborative work spaces’, ‘transdisciplinary research practices’, ‘What is political about research?’, ‘Who’s afraid of the Institute?’, etc…
This first B-workshop on ‘collaboration and collaborative learning’ opens up the field of collaborative practices as ‘open collectives’, as it grew in the artistic practices of the last 10-15 years. We try to get a grip on the social, political, economic and aesthetic context that has produced this proclivity for communal working, and look at some interesting examples of collaborative research projects.

 

 

25 – 29 / 06 / 2012


“WHATEVER MOVING LIKE THIS”
workshop by Paz Rojo


How could we experience the question “what, why, who, where, what for, how we live the tension between individuation and the necessity of collectivity?” What are the conditions that make WE a problem to sustain rather than a problem to solve? How can we address such a question assuming that the sites where the sensible, the corporeal and unspeakable are the battlefield where to challenge our existence? How could we do so without addressing pre-existent models and protocols? Could we experience (the) body as the very battlefield where the “somatic” prime on the “cognitive” where “creation” prime on the “creative” where “tacit experience” primes over “negotiation and responsibility” and where softness, empathy and dispersion prime over self-representation, self-management and self-control? What does being “democratically in contact means today” as a performative and experienciable gesture?
This workshop takes place within the framework “C O R E O G R A F X S”, an investigation that departs from a series of choreographic cultures that emerged over the 70´s in NY, which sought to incorporate the collective daily life through the body. From this context “C O R E O G R A F X S” studies some of the concepts that defined these cultures and, in turn, questions what they mean in the current market democracies and in relation to the triangle brand-body-work.

 


02 – 06 / 07 / 2012


‘FEEDBACK AND CRITIQUE‘
a.pass Basics workshop by Vladimir Miller & Elke Van Campenhout


We want to address the topic of feedback. Since a.pass is a shared environment, we depend a lot on each other as sparring partners in our researches. Often the work is presented within a group and the quality of the feedback is lacking in precision, understanding or communicative strength. What is important in giving or receiving feedback is that both positions are clarified: what position do I speak out of? what kind of feedback would be useful for my research?
In this workshop we try to construct very diverse feedback techniques: spoken critique, non-negotiated critique, direct feedback, indirect feedback, written, walking, one-on-one or transformative feedback.
We refer also back to some basic texts on art critique and feedback systems.

 

 

13 – 22 / 07 / 2012


‘THE WALK’
workshop on location by dr. Anja Steglich & Elke Van Campenhout


The Walk is a ten day workshop on location, focussing on two main questions:
How to turn walking into a qualitative tool for artistic research? and How to create a shared landscape through the individual investigation of connecting territories?
During the Walk we will address these questions out of the proposals of the individual researchers, that will investigate a limited domain and devise a walk that can later be picked by others. Important in this construction is the decisions made on the level of parameters: what do I consider (out of my research) to be important ‘markers’ of the walking experience: fe. sound, shapes, roads, attitude of walking, … Throughout the ten days we try to come back to the PAF ‘headquarters’ with enough information to turn our proposals and experiences into a shared map of the environment, and add the instructions, tasks and guidelines into a useable walking guide for others.
What is important here that these guidelines are both addressing the walk as a method for artistic research and the walk as an investigative tool to discover the landscape as a ‘narrative’.
The main guest on this journey is dr. Anja Steglich, who is currently working on two linked themes: the `telling landscapes´ and the ‘landscape choreography’.





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2008 BLOCK II

1 May-31 July 2008

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2008 BLOCK III

1 September-31 December 2008

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Sara Manente DEMOCRATIC FOREST

1 January 2009

a publication by a.p.t. / a.pass
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2009 BLOCK I

1 January-31 March 2009

2009 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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Tom Plischke & Kattrin Deufert CONSEQUENCES

2-6 March 2009

The most important element of our working process is writing and transference
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Marcos Simoes THE LAUGHING BODY

research publication

1 May 2009

 

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2009 BLOCK II

1 May-31 July 2009

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Ed. by Constanze Schellow 56 Ways (not) to

research publication

1 September 2009

 

 


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Ariane Loze Môwn (movies on my own)

DVD and booklet; research publication

1 September 2009


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2009 BLOCK III

1 September-30 November 2009

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2010 BLOCK I

1 January-31 March 2010

2010 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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Jozef Wouters What is it that I have done?

book

1 January 2010

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Fanny Zaman Song Mountain Area, The Centre Direction

booklet + DVD; research publication

1 January 2010


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Tom Plischke & Kattrin Deufert CONSEQUENCES II

1-6 March 2010

The most important element of our working process is writing and transference
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2010 BLOCK II

1 May-31 July 2010

2010 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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2010 BLOCK III

1 September-30 November 2010

2010 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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texts by: Elke Van Campenhout, André Lepecki, Christophe van Gerrewey, Nele Wynants; ed. by Mokum, a.pass It, Thingly Variations in Space

15 Euro

1 January 2011

IT

This book explores the position of the object in contemporary performance.

price: OUT OF STOCK

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Katrin Lohmann On Some Things

comic strip book

1 January 2011

 

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2011 BLOCK I

1 January-31 March 2011

2011 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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Elke van campenhout tools for research

1 January 2011

resarchtools1

 

 

Thinking about tools in the research environment of a.pass is a tricky ‘thing’. When we think about tools in everyday language, we think about ‘things that do something’. But not whatever. Tools are things that have their function inscribed in them, that are optimized for achieving a certain goal, like the radically specified instruments IKEA offers you in its DIY packages. In an artistic research environment the question thus to ask in the first place is: what kind of tools do we need to do what we do?

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2011 BLOCK II

1 April-31 July 2011

2011 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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Pierre Rubio ARTIFICIAL REALITIES #1

30 May-3 June 2011

Displacements and Attachments

The basic idea is that if one takes distance from one’s own project by ‘moving’ it in unexpected contexts or by ‘translating’ it in non familiar languages, this will allow the discovery of new components and new ‘attachments’ that will enrich and stimulate the ‘original’ project. Or, in other words: developing an otherness by experiencing and exploring “as if's” to get out the over-territorial and locked perception of “our” projects.
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2011 BLOCK III

1 September-30 November 2011

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Pierre Rubio ARTIFICIAL REALITIES #2

10-23 October 2011

Magical Materialism

The magical world is not a fascinating ethnographic object but “a mode of existence” to which individuals, as well as collectives, (and also artistic research projects...) can come back, if they endure the ordeal of disindividuation. “Disindividuation is a lack in structure” that happens when organisations that make us see, think and act break up, making us paradoxically available to invent other ways of seeing, thinking and acting. Welcome to the post-rational shamanistic academia!
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2012 BLOCK I

1 January-13 April 2012

2012 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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Higher Performance!

7-18 May 2012

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Some workshopping in economics for artists is due!
At latest since 2008 it became clear, that the economic system we are living in and with is wacky, unjust and not sustainable. Many of its instruments are either exaggerated or exhausted. The bubbles it produces in different markets are getting out of control and deregulated fiscal constructions are dramatically failing.

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High Performance! Glossary

8 May 2012

workshop day 1

The current economic crisis is not only a result of some major failures in speculating practices, but the outbreak of a constant crisis inherent to the system. Exploitation of the society and the environment through a reliance on constant growth, the possibility of infinite creation of money for some through the creation of debt for the majority, and the binding of most life-procedures to procedures of money are creating a precarious and dangerous economic climate.

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