reading session
17 March 2017
Location a.pass
Book Club #9 Language as Magic and the Language of Things
Book Club Series / Caroline Godart & Marialena Marouda
In the essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” Benjamin proposes a language metaphysics that extends to every thing. Every thing has a language: objects, animals, human beings but also immaterial things, like the Arts or Technology. For Benjamin language is therefore a medium going very much beyond human language and the communication through words. One could say language is the way in which some thing – indeed every thing – communicates itself to the world. Read more
A 2 day EventA temporary CommunityIn times of emergency we choose to see ourselves as WarriorsWhen you need to survive you fightThe intimate self unfolding, clad in a new vocabularyTo change what is there, what keeps us hostage.A warrior that fights to reveal the present of lifeThe divinity of the everydayDiscovering our dreams to be as real as our wakingWARRIORS isAn event to share our processA process of becomingA journey through our labyrinthsA moment of confusion
don’t eat the microphone / televizinho / mommy, daddy, me Veridiana zurita24/10/2015, 7-10pm, a.pass studio, de bottelarijIn 2014 I started working as an artistic researcher in a.pass. Since then I developed three different projects. ‘Don’t Eat the Microphone’: a weekly session developed together with the residents of the psychiatric hospital Dr. Guislain in Ghent, ‘Televizinho’: a series of re-enactments of Brazilian soap-operas with no-actors of a river community in the Amazon and ‘Mommy, Daddy, Me’: a letter trialogue about love relationships between me and my parents. Through these experimental set-ups I gathered a lot of materials of various kinds. Now I would like to share these video’s, texts, experiences and set-ups with you. I would be happy to host you during an evening-long sharing of materials from the research, and offer an idea of the contexts and imaginations that brought these ongoing projects to life.More information here
workshop
25-29 May 2015
Location a.pass
Pierre Joachim / Geert Opsomer / Pierre Rubio
ECOLOGY OF AFFECTS
'A revolution is as much a reorientation of our affective relations as it is of social relations and cannot be one without the other.'
Jason Read, ‘Economies of Affect / Affective Economies’, 2013 Read more
As a red thread throughout the block the participants engage in a weekly communal reading practice of the book ‘Realist Magic – Object, Ontology, Causality’ by Timothy Morton.Reading and discussing in-depth this one central text allows for the development of a common ground of reference and connection that functions as a backdrop to the workshops and practices that shape the block. The Reading Circle happens on Monday evenings from 6pm to 10pm.
S9.11 Mavi to Samah 8 from A.pass Perform Back Score on Vimeo.michrophone body shadow drafta.pass research march 2015
The Therapy Sessions, a performance piece in four parts exploring the emotional role of a bureaucrat using a video, a screenplay, an audio file and a collection of illustrations.The Therapy Sessions involves three characters, which are investigating patterns of bureaucratic behaviour, the compromising bureaucrat, the facilitating therapist and the classifying analyst.Designed by Miriam Hempel http://www.daretoknow.co.uk
