Meeting Place-Performing Arts and Landscape by Sara Erlingsdotter

UNDER CONSTRUCTION The development project Meeting Place – Performing Arts and Landscape is both inter-artistic and interdisciplinary, and corresponds to the community through the focus on landscape and its people, both as co-creators and participants and as an audience. This can be linked to urban development processes and dialogues with citizens as well as rural development and cultural heritage. In the artistic and pedagogical work in the project Meeting Place – Performing Arts and Landscape I focus on and explore how we can create a meeting place rather than a stage or a space, how we can create an event, an action rather than a performance, and how we can invite the people to be participants and co-creators rather than an audience or spectators. I also explore what happens if we look at the landscape and the people of the landscape as a unit, a totality.

Sara Erlingsdotter Action Participation Meeting - To come forward

Yvon Bonnenfants Touching Vocal Landscape: Compositional Implication

António Salgado Between Time and Space - How Landscape and Performance may produce a new sense of reality

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https://media.researchcatalogue.net/rclive/master/32_322517_01483002391_00001.pdf?key=2321aa72582604caaff0866479e1bdd3&timeout=1483016400

Yes, it is as if I am singing.

I feel that I become part of the choir. I am standing there, silent, with the singing choir around me, being part of the choir. I am experiencing the choir singing and its presence, and it is as if I myself am singing, as if my body is breathing and my vocal cords are singing with the choir. As if I and the choir have switched places with each other for a brief moment. A meeting which is changing when a sensation, an experience, switches places between two or more people.

Sara Erlingsdotter Action Participation Meeting – To come forward p.5

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Lab Action Participation Acoustics, Botanic garden, Porto, Portugal 2015

The Heaven Choir strings have different red, pink and beige nuances; the Sea Choir strings are blue, light-blue and green. More and more people get involved, and strings of different colours mix together. The choirs bring the audience, and together we constitute a net between heaven and sea, between red and blue-green nuances, between those who wanted to help Odysseus and those who refused.

The singers are tying a net, they go from one side to the other and we, in the audience, are helping, we hold a string, we raise another, we release and we stretch. When the net is tied, the choirs unite as a tribute to mankind and ask for help and mercy.

Then we are all moving clockwise; the net forms a spinning wheel of strings in all colours, and Odysseus and Penelope move towards the centre. In a duet, they sing their love for each other and we are being part of it. They are united. We have united them.

Sara Erlingsdotter Action Participation Meeting p.8

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