Previous Practice - summary.

Relation to ongoing/previous practice

My interest in motion follows my performance practice, in which movement is presented as basis for the interrelation between brain - body - world, and consequently the gateway to achieve knowledge. From subliminal to more explicit approach, movement is often set under strict guidelines, both inside and outside the realm of performance.

My previous studies on graphic design and overall interest in different communication systems, made me start following a research on on choreographic scores, a particular system which stands for "writing movement". Choreographic language follows diverse structures, that enable composition and trigger action. There are multiple forms for representing it, from graphic,to linguistic, or geometrical; relying on imagery, sound, and so on. Either ways, meaning is created.

I am interested in choreographic scores as existing in themselves as notation systems, and also in its performative state.

TRIM1 -choreography as writing (communicating movement)

For this project I created a new choreography piece, based on found material from ancient Geranos Dance: a series of drawings part of the François vase (6th century BC), and a written description by Pollux, a Greek lexicographer from the 2nd century AD.

I am interested in the multiple ways of communicating movement , and used different language systems to write the same choreographic piece: written words together with a geometrical and graphical representation; The geometric module served then as basis for a pattern, the ultimate abstraction of the piece, readable and understood by those who share the same code. In this project I only explored choreography as means for writing movement, leaving the actual side of performing it apart.

the original link to the project: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Final_-_assignment

TRIM 2 - choreography as an object in space

For the Photobook Project, I created a sculptural piece, a continual physical surface for the user to relate with. This way, I had positioned the viewer/spectator as the performer, proposing a tighter relation between communication artifact/interface and perceiver. The piece built for this project also acknkowledged a reflection on accessibility and wayfinding experiences through built environments. This "human-environment interaction" creates a parallel towards how people behave, react to spacial elements and structures, either in regards to analogue or digital medias. In this case, the process of "wayfinding", getting acquainted with the piece by means of following very concrete physical attributes, aims to point to the same patterns in the realm of publishing.

more from the project, here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/PHOTOBOOK//_finale

TRIM 3 - choreography as multiple interventions in space

In this seminar I researched different choreographic approaches in the realm of performance and art, and selected three: Chance Operations, by Merce Cunningham; Wall-Floor Positions, a video piece by Bruce Nauman and Sticks, part of a series of interventions on public spaces and later integrated in museum spaces, by Trisha Brown. I chose these for being very diverse techniques of generating choreographic scores and consequently having a very different effect on the way people may be able to interpret it and perform it. The first one by Cunningham was presented similar to a game structure, in which short instructions would be chosen by chance, and would serve as navigational instruments; a sequence of actions which played with re-orientation and trajectory in space. The second inspired by Bruce Nauman video art piece, aimed for a sort of solo improvisation, in which people would lean to the wall and draw an outline of their body with chalk. This way the traces of the moment remain in space. At last, Trisha Brown's re-interpretation was done by using sticks as an external body into the choreography which was simply driven by the act of walking. Contrary to the previous one, this could be seen as a collective improvisation, in which body acts as the main common language.

the documentation of the project here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Final_Presentation_V2

Web - experiences: My interest on spatial procedures and the architecture of movement happens both in physical spaces so well into digital spaces. In between trimesters, I have also been doing small prototypes, towards an experimental use of programming tools, for this, I developed a series of webpages in which a reflection on the time (duration) within this particular space (web interface) is raised.

http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~jo/notebook/web_exp/one/loationmouse.html

http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~jo/notebook/web_exp/two/linedown.html

Summer School at Bauhaus: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Bauhaus_SummerSchool