Proposal-draft
Who is performing the "solos"?
in one sentence (s): I would like to experiment and research the value of time, and how individuals and/or collectives perform under the same concept in in both digital and physical spaces. As for this, and in this early stage of development, I intend to create a series of environments in which different Time & Space dimensions are represented so as to enhance the performative qualities of being temporally present, spatially present. In this way ephemerality of performance becomes key, as well as its transformative effects that persist afterwards.
continuation:
further concepts:
Objects (in) Space (in) Time.
- OBJECTS - bodies.
- SPACE - physical & virtual.
- TIME - different rythms.
"Deleuzian terms as capacity to transform situation, I think it’s more than appropriate to present the ideas of theatre historian - Erika Fisher‑Lichte. She writes about the Performative turn of the 1960’s and breaks down this phenomenon into its components to explore its transformative and interactive powers. She explains that live performance is shaped by interaction between performer and spectator, where anything can happen."Fisher‑Lichte, E. (2008), The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics, UK: Routledge, p136
"Nothing ever exists outside of the power and power is always relation. She wrote about identity which is a process of construction, a consequence of historical and behavioral norms within larger social contexts."Butler, J. (1990), Gender Trouble, UK: Routledge
"Constantly re‑ inventing, bringing ideas and actions together, contributing to the being‑ together web of relations; to Deleuzian assamblage. Deleuze’s interest can be found in bodily capacity to make us think of the unthought. Moreover bodies have active power to affect and also passive power to be affected." Deleuze, G. (1989), Cinema 2: The Time‑Image, USA: University of Minnesota Press
“For Massumi, affect is precisely a matter of how intensities come together, move each other, and transform and translate under and beyond meaning, semantics and fixed systems/cognitions. Part of the assumption here is that, even in the most reactionay circumstances, nothing happens if affective intensity has not already paid us a visit. This refines our understanding of why territory - spatial and temporal - is always “existential territory“. It has as much a territorry that enables movement as something that keeps everything in its place, it is movement itself.” Reading / Feeling - If I Can’t Dance Archives.
“performativity is derived, of course, from ‘perform’, the usual verb with the noun ‘action’: it indicates that the issuing of the utterance is the performance of an action – it is not normally thought of as just saying something.” — Austin, J. L. (1975), How to do things with Words, UK: Harvard University press, 2nd edition, p6-7 *2 Derrida, J. (1977), Signature
/ experience - perception - phenomenology /
\ ChoreoGraphy / - writing movement, HOW? (go to first prototyping experiments)
/ Composition (mapping/ placing - accessiblitiy) / Chance (randomness) /
/ Action / Eventness /
WHY?
Thesis intention
- relevant (speculative realism / accelerationism / anthropocene / extreme capitalism) - ethics
- embodiment / consciousness / awareness - ideology (phenomenology)
- personal (design and performance)
In the end, I hope to understand for my future practice how to best incorporate the coexistence of Performativity and Graphic design.
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Relation to previous practice
What happens if Performance and Communication Design collide?
Relation to a larger context
- Minimalism;
- Conceptual Art;
- Fluxus;
- "Instructions" avant gard movement;
- Happenings;
- Lettrism;
- Video and installation art from the 70's;
Practical steps
Method
1. First Prototyping Experiments:
1.1 Geometry : coordenation of visual elements - graphics.
1.2 Language - type;
1.3 Moving Images;
1.4 Sound;
1.5 Performance;
1.6 Scenography;
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> web - experiences that makes more tangible the notion of time. ANTI- performance? negative of performance (stop/pause)
2. Theoretical research:
2.1 time history/ different conceptions;
2.2 virtual space (s) / cyborgs;
3. How to organize and display the outcome? - hybrid publishing / Print & Digital.
TOOLS:
- web desinginig; programming languages; computational creativity tools; other software.
- also considering: (moving) images - type/graphics; sound; multimedia installation; performance.
A list of references
(Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.) As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.) See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing
ON PERFORMANCE // CHOREOGRAPHY
http://www.booksonthemove.eu/en/shop/books/english-books/ (readings < ) http://sarma.be/oralsite/pages/Strata/ (documentation / dance archive) http://apass.be/artistic-reseach-center/archive/ (documentation / dance archive) motionbank.org (documentation / dance archive) http://www.ubu.com/dance/index.html (historical references/ dance archive) http://www.disjointedarts.com/home_xo/ressssssearches (postchoreography ?) http://wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/thinking-with-the-body/?video=4 (Thinking with the body: Mind and Movement by Wayne McGregor / Random Dance) William Forsythe (choreographics objet) On Scores, Notation and the Trace in Dance, by Myriam Van Imschoot MOVING WITHOUT a BODY by Stamatia Portanova (book) Isabel Maria de Cavadas Valverde in INTERFACES DANCE-TECHNOLOGY: a theoretical framework for performance in the digital domain (dance-technology thesis) Hetty Blades on Creative Computing and the Re-Configuration of Dance Ontology http://www.corpusweb.net/after-dance.html
Tino Sehgal at Tate Modern : https://vimeo.com/54314537
I CAN'T DANCE archives
exhibition from Anne Theresa at Wiels exhibition "Dancing Light / Let it move you" at Huis Marseille
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Action to Surface by Tereza Rullerova. Performance Art: Life of the Archive and Topicality.
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?further readings::::
http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1514&l=en&bookId=408&sort=year (Chantal Pontbriand (Ed.) Per/Form How to Do Things with[out] Words)
http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1601&l=en&bookId=495&sort=year (Mathilde ter HeijnePerforming Change)
http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=35486 (THE VISUAL EVENT : An Education In Appearance. OLIVER KLIMPEL (ed.). SPECTOR BOOKS.)
http://realdancecompany.org/writing.html
ART MOVEMENTS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettrism (time-based media works < check ) http://www.walkerart.org/collections/publications/performativity/
Briony Fer in the book The infinite line (geometry and conceptual artists)
ARTISTS
Sol Lewitt Vito Acconci Henri Chopin; Guy de Cointet and Channa Horwtizt: Signs,Rules, Processes - Indetermination and deconstruction. http://www.marcellealix.com/artistes/oeuvres/1743/marie-cool-fabio-balducci http://www.collectivemagpie.org/work/
THEORISTS (on language/ media)
Method by Dick Raaijmakers Deleuze and Guatari Umberto Eco Guy de Cointet Lev Manovich, Database as a Symbolic Form. Meta-communication, by Gregory Bateson to refer to "communication about communication" "Mind, Nature, and Consciousness: Gregory Bateson and the New Paradigm. Blaeuer, D. M. (2010), An Ecology of Performance: Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Performance, USA: University of South Florida (In the book, Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson explained actions in terms of being performative within the complex system which they are part of. 13 I understand this system as human interactions, relations and reactions to patterns. Bateson’s patterns are acts of human perception and respond to the world which is in the process of constant change - a flow of life. <) ‘History’ of Search Engines: Mapping Technologies of Memory, Learning, and Discovery ¬ Richard Graham
"Art and Language" exhibition at MacBa.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/15/2 (ask Steve help to access! <)
PHENOMENOLOGY
Brian Massumi's reflection on Feeling, Emotion and Affect on his book Parables of the Virtual, Movement, Affect, Sensation. Brian Massumi's Archive of experience. Interview with Marlon Barrios Solano, part of the Embodied Techne Series (2012), Alva Noë discusses "Dance As A Way Of Knowing" Merleau Ponty, phemenology of Perception Eric Shouse, “Feeling, Emotion, Affect”, MC Journal, Vol. 8, No. 6 (December 2005), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0512/03-shouse.php
SPACE
Pattern: Ornament, Structure and Behavior, by Andrea Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis