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1. information
   performance
   performative publishing
   SUMMER DRINK with a.pass and nadine
   19 June 2024
   posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
   rue Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek
   07 July 2024
   

   work in progress by Diego Echegoyen (sound performance) & Davide Tidoni (film)

   July 7 at 18h30
   rue de Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek

    

   Let's celebrate SUMMER ! After the Spring Drink nadine and a.pass are very happy to invite you for their Summer Drink ! This time with work in progress (performance, sound and film) by Diego Echegoyen and Davide Tidoni. 

   Join us, together with our friends of nadine, for a free drink and 2 presentations!

    

   PROGRAM:

      – 18:30 - doors open + drink
      – 19:00 - Invisible Cities by Diego Echegoyen 
      – 20:15 - The Birth of a Song/Come nasce una canzone by Davide Tidoni

    

    

   *** Invisible Cities by Diego Echegoyen (work in progress, 50 min)

   Invisible Cities is the new performative project by Diego Echegoyen. This sound performance delves into how, when and under which conditions the cities and memories overlap, how they dislocate, appearing somewhere else and coexisting with different landscapes. During his residency at a.pass, Diego explored the transition from sound installation to performative forms, incorporating elements and techniques from sound art, theatre and expanded choreography. The installation shifts to a performative sound piece by unleashing a choreography of shadows and lights as a glimpse of an ever-murmuring fictive city. Is it a matter of memories or perception, or is it about Migration? How can it be that a place reappears in another and then they stick together? How does it speak about the presence/absence? In any case, they all serve as backdrops and catalysts for Diego’s creative process. His relation to Brussels, where he currently resides, and Buenos Aires marks the pace of his work as the memories bridge one city to the other.

    

   *** The Birth of a Song/Come nasce una canzone by Davide Tidoni (work in progress, 75min + aftertalk)

   The video The Birth of a Song continues Davide's research on voice, protest songs, and the NoTAV movement (more info). The work shows the clashes between police and NoTAV, which occurred in Valsusa on July 4, 2011, and links them to the song, Il furbo celerino (The Sneaky Riot Cop), created by the NoTAV movement itself a few months after the clashes. The work reflects on protest songs as situated and relational gestures, actions intervening within a specific temporal contexts, expressing force and meaning in response to contingent situations.

    

    
2. postgraduate program
   seminar
   block 2018/I
   Making / Conditions
   Performing knowledge. Lecture-performances in perspective
   26 February 2018
   posted by: Nicolas Galeazzi
   Pieter Vermeulen
   ARIA - Antwerp
   09 March 2018
   09 February 2018
   

   Lecture-performances have gained increasing attention in recent years, in the wake of the ‘academic turn’, which frames artistic praxis as a form of research. Its genealogy can arguably be traced back to the emergence of performance art in the 1960s, with canonical examples such as Robert Morris, Dan Graham, Andrea Fraser and Joseph Beuys. Contemporary artists like Sharon Hayes, William Kentridge, Rabih Mroué, Hito Steyerl, Amalia Ulman, Walid Raad, Bruce High Quality Foundation and many others are now continuing this historical legacy. Sharpening the relation between art and knowledge, their work can be situated at the intersection of visual art, lecture and performance.

   How to analyse these different forms of knowledge transmission? What kind of knowledge are we dealing with and how is it being performed? What is the role of the performer's body, and is it possible to move beyond the divide between subject and object? Or, for that matter, between the spectator and performer, or between the academic and artistic realm? Would teaching qualify as a form of art and/or research? The objective of this research seminar is not to canonise the lecture-performance as a ‘medium’, but to examine its multiplicity at the intersection between the arts and academia.

   Performing Knowledge. Lecture-Performances in Perspective consists of a seminar program at ARIA (by registration only) and a public program at Extra City Kunsthal.

    

   Contributions by:

   • Toon Leën
   • Warren Neidich
   • Bryana Fritz
   • Pia Louwerens
   • Lucia Rainer
   • Pieter Vermeulen

   Venue daytime (seminar): ARIA, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp (room S.S208)
   Venue evening (public) at Kunsthal Extra City, Eikelstraat 25-31, 2600 Antwerpen-Berchem

   Co-curator: Michiel Vandevelde

    

   Programme

   ARIA, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerp (room S.S208)

   9:30 - 10:30  Welcome and introduction by Pieter Vermeulen

   10:30 - 12:00  Doing Knowledge: Exploring the Tresholds of Lecturing and Performing, Dr. Lucia Rainer

   12:00 - 13:00  Lunch break

   13:00 - 14:00  Some Comments Concerning my Statisticon Neon, Dr. Warren Neidich

   14:00 - 15:00  The Case of the Ridiculous Curator, or How Transfigurative Recontextualisations May Reveal Authentic Truths, Lecture-performance by Toon Leën

   15:00 - 15:45  Round table discussion

   15:45 - 16:30  Performance by Pia Louwerens

   16:30 - 17:00  Concluding remarks by Pieter Vermeulen

    

   PUBLIC PROGRAM, Kunsthal Extra City, Eikelstraat 25-31, 2600 Antwerpen-Berchem

   19:00 - 20:00  Warren Neidich: The Brain Without Organs in Cognitive Capitalism (lecture)

   20:00 - 20:30  Bryana Fritz: Indispensible blue (lecture-performance)

   (Photo: Warren Neidich, Some Comments concerning my Statisticon Neon, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, 2015)

    

   Register HERE!!

    

   The Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, (aria@uantwerpen.be) is collecting these personal details for the organization of the ARIA research seminar 'Performing knowledge - Lecture-performances in perspective'. Under no circumstances will these details be given to third parties. If you want to change your personal details or have them removed from our database, please inform us using the address above. More information about our privacy policy: www.uantwerpen.be/disclaimer.

    

    
3. research center
   seminar
   block 2018/I
   What are you training for? On acting and performance techniques - Current directions for embodied research in the performing arts
   20 December 2017
   posted by: Nicolas Galeazzi
   Dra. Adriana la Selva
   10 January 2018
   11 January 2018
   

   Adriana La Selva is participant of the a.pass PhD research program and proposes the 2 day seminar "What are you training for?" in relation to her home university U-Ghent. The topic addresses the conditions of the body in relation to its performativity. Starting the investigations of the self-creation of conditions at the body seems to comply with the intentions of the block MAKING / CONDITIONS perfectly.  We therefore decided to join this seminar as part of Plenum I. The first round of the individual research presentations of each a.pass participant will take place within this seminar and amongst the seminar participants.

    

   outline

   This inter-university specialist course intends to investigate acting and performing techniques as a field of knowledge separated from those of the representation and spectacle.

   In which ways can performer’s technique (a range of codified skills one chooses to learn) and performer’s training processes (how you engage with techniques towards creation or, how you create a certain routine to deal/improve these techniques), dialogue with other fields of study, such as philosophy, sociology and politics? Can we look at technique as an aesthetic/poetic device on its own? What is performative about it?

   The designed programme seeks to investigate and challenge what acting and performance technique is, and how it is disseminated through artistic, social and political agency.

   We will tackle this frame in both theory and practice, with interactive workshops, work demonstrations, reading seminars and lectures, where acting and performance technique apprenticeship will dialogue with a philosophical context which unfolds the notion of epistemology: the study of the nature of knowledge itself and how it is sourced.

   The course is open to all contemporary art scholars, both in an academic and a practice-based sense, working on artistic and everyday life techniques as embodied discourses. Participants are invited to elaborate on different training methods and art practices, as much as on theoretical models, and to experiment with their individual approach to artistic work from a technical and training-like perspective.

    

   guest lectures

   Lecturers will work out the above frame in two levels:

   1. on a theoretical level, with the reading seminar sessions and the lectures of Prof. Dr. Ben Spatz (Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Huddersfield University), Nicolas Galeazzi (a.pass) and Odin Teatret’s performer Iben Nagel Rasmussen. Still active, she is considered a living archive, carrier of a legacy that dates back from the beginning of a particular physical theatre culture started by Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba in the 60’s.

   2. a practice-based level: the participants will participate in training exercises with Ben Spatz, and will watch the work demonstrations of Esa Kirkkopelto (Senior Lecture on artistic research at UNIARTS Helsinki) and Carlos Simioni (Performer at Grupo LUME, Sao Paulo), followed by an open talk. The first from Finland, the latter from Brazil, these are two performers that found a precious way of seeing technique as a poetic object on its own, which they use to create radical interactions with the communities they belong to. Throughout the two days of this course, we will investigate the notion of embodied technique - both in artistic and everyday life practices - as an epistemic field, i.e. as a resistant and potentially radical strategy for knowledge of and/or dialoguing with a broader social/political context.

    

   tentative program

   	DAY1: 10/01/2018
   10:00 to 17:00	including 1 hour lunch break + evening event (total of 8 working hours).
   09:30 to 10:00	Coffee and attendance list
   10:00 to 10:30	Introduction by Prof. Dr. Christel Stalpaert and Dra. Adriana La Selva on the overall topic.
   10:30 to 12:00	Prof. Dr. Ben Spatz, who will give an introductory lecture on embodied research and his current artistic outcomes.
   12:00 to 13:00	Nicolas Galeazzi: "Unfolding performance notions and the conditions of the making".
   13.00 to 14.00	Lunch Break
   14.00 to 17:30	Workshop session 1. Presentation and discussion of material linked to participants‘ research projects and art works. Participants are asked to prepare small presentations approaching corporeality and technique in relation to their own researches. This work will then be further developed in the workshop sessions, led and feedbacked by Ben Spatz.
   19:00 to 21:00	Evening event: Esa Kirkkopelto/ Other Spaces will bring a lecture/performance on embodied research and different modes of being, also other-than-human.
   	Day 2: 11/01/2018
   10:00 to 18:30	including 1 hour lunch break+ 30 min refreshments break (total of 8 working hours)
   10:00 to 13:00	Practice-based Workshop with Prof. Ben Spatz where theory and practice aggregated in the previous day with the students will be exposed through an epistemological practice-based work on the very notion of technique.
   13:00 to 14:00	Lunch break
   14:00 to 16:00	lecture / artist talk with Iben Nagel Rasmussen in which she will reflect on her life-long commitment to training and the unfolding of physicality in political and social spheres. The lecture will unfold as an interview, led by Prof. Ben Spatz.
   16:00 to 17:00	Launch of Rasmussen’s book The Blind Horse. Round table with the author and Dr. Adriana La Selva.
   17:00 to 17:30	Refreshments break
   17:30 to 19:30	Carlos Simioni carries out a work demonstration on his long term collaboration with Iben.

    

    

   organising and scientific committee

   Prof. Dr. Christel Stalpaert,

   Full professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at Ghent University, Director of the research centre S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) and PEPPER (Philosophy, Ethology, Politics and Performance)

   E-mail: Christel.Stalpaert@Ugent.be

   Prof. Dr. Jan Steen,

   Lecturer in acting and head of Drama Department, KASK-School of Arts

   E-mail: jan.steen@hogent.be

   Drs. Adriana La Selva,

   PhD Researcher at UGent (S:PAM) and KASK

   E-mail: AdrianaParente.LaSelva@Ugent.be

   Prof. Dr. Luk Van Den Dries

   Full Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp and head of the department of Literature.

   E-mail: luc.vandendries@uantwerpen.be

   Prof. Dr. Bart Philipsen

   Full Professor in the Faculty of Arts, coordinator of Literary Studies Research Unit KULeuven.

   E-mail: bart.philipsen@kuleuven.be

    

   partnership

   PEPPER - Philosophy, Ethology, Politics and PERformance, UGent

   Research Center for Visual Poetics - UAntwerpen

   Embodied Research Working Group:

   a.pass : advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels
   

   NORDISK TEATER LABORATORIUM
4. information
   postgraduate program
   block 2016/I
   Sub -(e)ject
   Block Focus: Sub -(e)ject The relation between writing and performance
   01 December 2015
   posted by: Nicolas Galeazzi
   Lilia Mestre
   a.pass
   04 January 2016
   31 March 2016
   case of: Lilia Mestre
   
   

   The proposal for this block follows up on scores as a tool to organize dialogical or intersubjective formats for exchange in artistic practice and research. In the past two years I developed in the frame of a.pass a score for writing practice, ‘Writing Scores’ and a score for performance ‘Perform Back Score’, both as discursive tools. Both scores created a platform for the different researches to co-habitate and to reflect back the methods and strategies each of us use in the making and thinking of our practices. The main questions are: How do we compose materials and thoughts? What is the performativity at stake on the sharing of those? What’s the relation between subjectivity and collectivity in a collaborative environment? What does that do to our individual practices and to the collective itself?

   I like to think that the becoming of the subject takes place in the experiences s/he partakes in the interiorisation and exteriorisation of the world. The subject as an agent of change that through its own transformation in the collective terrain participates activelly in the collective. I see the arts as a manifestation of that transformation and that transformation as a form of political engagement .

   For 2016 I would like to mix both scores and propose to focus on the gestures of performance and writing as gestures of inscription both containing the desire to create surfaces of reflection that beam our experiences out into the world and give tools for reading that same world.

   We can think performance as writing as well as writing as performance and the multiple relations the practice of arts have with writing. Language is the common denominator in our super capitalized society, it’s the place of communication/ transmission by excellence, where knowledge (experience and thought) gets legitimized and for the same reasons a place where we cross or establish borders. We all have a deep relation with language from daily life existence to the writing of academic papers, theatre programs, grants applications passing by fiction or poetry. And in a moment or another we have to answer the questions: What are you doing? What is is about? Why?

   Through our the block we’ll search for the connection between the word and the event, the resonance of the work into words, also if the work is writing itself, and vice versa. The confrontation between the place of experience and the place of re-telling, the dialogue that runs in between them and makes both evolve. How each of us does it? Which kind of tone, format, lenght, do we use to manifest the experience into words or the words into experience? How do the two practices feed each other? Can a writing about art be art itself?

   The score is called “ Bubble Score for multiple languages” and will take place once a week from January till March. We’ll alternate weekly between writing and performing and a publication will be produced afterwards. The score will have several observation stand points: as practice of both, performing and writing, and their relation, as a way to publish events and reflections and as a social environment of authors without territories developing subjectivies/ collectivities. The five workshops will support the individual researches by contributing with tools and strategies coming from different artistic approaches.

    

   OVERVIEW

   Here we give a short overview on the workshops spread over the block, which shall bring a
   mixture of inputs into the discourses raised through the focus of this block.

   The first workshop about is about subjectivity and will be given by Elke Van Campenhout as a start up to the philosophical environment of the block. We’ll reed authors such as: ...

   After this we will dive into blindness and writing with Lilia Mestre (performance) and Bruno De Wachter (writer). The idea of the workshop is to start a relation between the personal throught working on blindness and writing as a pratice bringing that inside in relation to the outside, the world. The work will take form throught the researches of the participants.

   Jack Hauser and Sabina Holzer will give a workshop on scores where each participant will practice scoring in relation to her/his research as much as the collective construction of a score where the different practices can ‘play’ with each other.

   Myriam Van Imschoot will use various forms of voicing and singing to co-write thoughts, ideas and presence in the multiple spaces of social interaction, communication and their architectural and acoustic envelopes.

   And to end, the choreographer Anne Juren will work with body technics as Feldenkrais to approch different states of the body and write from that perspective taking support on Ecriture Feminine.

    
5. postgraduate program
   project
   Conditions for the Emergence of Poetics
   Perform Back Score
   Perform Back Score how to document performance?
   17 March 2015
   posted by: Nicolas Galeazzi
   14 January 2015
   31 March 2015
   case of: Mavi Veloso
   case of: Sara Santos
   case of: Lilia Mestre
   
   

   WEEKLY MEETING WORKSHOP: 

   Proposed by Lilia Mestre for the Block 2015/I (January-March)

   This score was a proposal to communicate through performance throughout the block. It focuses on performance as a tool for the transformation of thought, intuition, desire, referentiality, practice into a communication medium. How to introduce exposure, playfulness, risk, generosity, exchange, fuck fear, contamination and precision in our way of communicating? How does this communication produce desire? To whom, where and how is this desire directed? What is the intensity/quality of it? What is the political agency of it?

   The aim was to develop systems to practice the staging of philosophy, critical exposure and the rhetorics inherent to any body, object, word, situation. It is a working score. Taking as a principle that the artwork raises questions and doesn’t give answers I would like to propose a Q&A in 9 sessions where we can just perform. The series of performances will function as replies that raise (an)other(s) question(s) or problematic (s). This score will also be a documentation practice that questions performance as a document.

   The performances can take any kind of medium, strategy. Just it would be good if you are a writer to work at least two times in another medium and if you are not a writer to reply at least two times with text.

   The invitation is to meet once a week for 3 hours and work together. These meetings will have to happen after 17:00 and can take place in different environments.

    

   Set up
   

   14 January in the afternoon. (last day of opening week)

   In this meeting we’ll set up the frame that will accompany the score for the 9 sessions.

   We’ll assign to whom we are addressing the first performances.

   First session

   *Every participant will display a 5 minutes performance as a gift.

   *After performance the participant will assign a participant that will reply the week after.

   *Discussion about the problematics that emerged.

   *We’ll choose for a space and time for the next session.

   Sessions 2 till 9

   *Every participant will display her /his response in a 5 minutes performance.

   *After all presentations we’ll assign together the next repliers.

   *Discussion about the problematics that emerged.

   *We’ll choose for a space and time for the next session.

   Documentation

   All performances will be filmed in the same format. Julia Clever (ex-a.pass working on documentary) will be working with us. All next repliers can take a video home to work on their responses.

   We’ll think and work together on the notion of archive and of performance as documentation.