postgraduate program, research center

2008 BLOCK I

1 January-31 March 2008

-Researchers Participants in the Postgraduate Program

Bruno Stappaerts
Christophe Engels
Gable Roelofsen
Hanne Jacobs
Karolien De Schepper
Kim Lien Desault
Klaas Devos
Lieselot Jansen
Lore Rabaut
Luk Sips
Sara Manente
Vick Verachtert

-Partners

Beursschouwburg / Bettina Knaup – festival ‘Performing Proximities’
UA University of Antwerpen
Troubleyn
PAF (Performing Arts Forum, Reims)
TkH (Walking Theory, Belgrade)
TQW (TanzQuartier Wien)

-Contributors for workshops

Constant vzw ( Rogerio Liro / Simon Yuill / Kirstie Stansfield / Laurence Rassel / Peter Westenberg / Wendy Van Wynsberghe)

Heather Kravas / Antonija Livingstone

Peter Stamer / Philippe Riera

-Coordinator a.pass

Elke van Campenhout

The block is curated by Elke van Campengout (Coordinator a.pass)

Program #1 in collaboration with Constant vzw

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/mutual/?article377

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/mutual/spip.php?mot150

21-15 / 01 / 2008

‘PERFORMATIVE RECORDINGS, BROWSING THE CITY’

workshop by Constant vzw (Brussels)

Day 1: We will walk the city of Antwerp. Attached to our feet will be low tech recording devices. Through them, we observe us making contact with the surfaces of the city. The regions of impact beneath the soles of our shoes, touching the sleeves of our coat, entering our field of vision produce an image of our physical presence. In a group we will explore different surroundings (busy street, shopping mall, open space… ) and make collective audio-visual collages. The devices we carry will function as our ears and eyes, they act as audio-visual mediators. At the end of the day we will use this material to make a festive audio-visual mix.

Day 2: We will publish the video and audio we will have collected online. This involves selecting fragments, make a simple montage, install and dress up a weblog, upload the audio and video, describe the material. We will use free software and operating systems and think about alternatives for copyright by applying permissive licenses.

28-31 / 01 / 2008

‘MODULATING SENSORY INPUT: OBJECTS AND SPACES STRATEGIES’

workshop by Rogerio Liro

In today’s society we face in increasing degree of technological tools for communication: phone, email, text messaging, internet data generated oriented person. These instruments gain influence and determine already greatly our personal lives. The growth of these media seems endless. But our reserves of energy and attention is finite although we tend to test its limits. These technological opportunities for interaction show as well their own borders.

How these instruments affect our perception of space and of our social needs? How do they redefine the boundary between ourselves and the world that surrounds us? What is the nature of this limit and how liquid is that? Do we always know when the saturation point is reached?

In practice, particular attention will be paid to the work of Lygia Clark as therapeutic art practice, and the workshop will result in the construction of a new model for the use of a.pass workspaces.

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/mutual/spip.php?article353

29-31 / 01 / 2008

‘PERFORMING PROXIMITIES : SWEETNESS AND FEAR AMONG FRIENDS AND STRANGERS’

(SWAP MEAT AND MALE BREAST FEEDING)

workshop by Heather Kravas (U.S.) and Antonija Livingstone (SE / CA)

Choreographers Antonija Livingstone and Heather Kravas already worked a long time together, and will try to share their choreographic practices. In particular, they will work with the participants on two motion systems that simultaneously construct and deconstruct an image. The workshop revolves around the development of intimacy in a performance situation.

The workshop takes place during the ‘Performing Proximities’ festival, curated by Bettina Knaup at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels. This festival focuses on notions of hospitality, intimacy and confrontation, both in terms of programming formats and in relation to artistic work and research.

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/mutual/spip.php?article368

11-17 / 02 / 2008

‘OBJECT SCORE NOTATION’

workshop by Simon Yuill (software developer) and Kirstie Stansfield (artist)

This workshop looks for the potentiality of softwares as tools to create notation of performance.

The starting point is the development of a notation system for everyday objects, movements, and gestures capture. For this, the physical space (the dance floor) is used as notation canvas shared by/in a collective authorship.

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/mutual/spip.php?article369

Program #2 by a.pass in collaboration with the Antwerpen Master in Theater Studies

18  / 02 – 20 / 03 / 2008

‘DRAMA QUEENS’

workshop by Peter Stamer and Philippe Riera

This long-term project will develop in several phases, including the development of a performance with the master students Theatre Studies of the University of Antwerp.

Peter Stamer initially will work with the participants around the basic principles of the therapeutic practice ‘family constellations’, where participants act as representatives of characters involved in the therapeutic needs of the client. The theatrical aspect of family constellations (volunteers take the ‘role’ of the father, mother, daughter or lover of the client, and are placed in the room to promote in this way the relationship between these key players), is the starting point for testing out this methodology as a tool in performance creation. The participants will work around these principles in the creation of improvisational moments of singing, wordless, dramatic or choreographic constellations.

Secondarily Peter Stamer will work with about 20 students of the master Theatre Studies at UA and apass participants will become their coaches.

One of the working week will focus on the contribution of choreographer Philippe Riera. He will work, inspired by his experience with the collective Superamas, with students around notions of fake / real and film editing esthetics principles in performance.

Research laboratory

28-29 / 03 / 2008

‘PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGIES OF AUTO-EDUCATION’

research laboratory curated by a.pass, PAF (Performing Arts Forum, Reims), TkH (Walking Theory, Belgrade) and TQW (Tanz Quartier Wien).