SPRING FESTIVAL
HEAR
...here I stand, Here I am. Alone, apart. But together...
Deconstruct the S E L F
And bring together something else
We move as one collective body yet each individual is free to pour themselves through the space.
The same sensation as present in Schwalbe - running, running, running. Aware of the distance of everybody around me.
Questions boudnaries of the self and other - have to be aware of self in order to act effectively as part of collective.
As a performance it wasn't about what makes indiviudals unique but how a collective force is generated, to make something greater than the self.
Do you have to lose something in order to access a deeper sense of awareness? (E.g. 'Hear' - by sacrificing sight = heightens the illusion of space/visuals, and 'Massa' sacrificed our indiviuality as runners for a collective force.
It's also about zooming in, simplifying, elongating...in that one 'sssh' lies everything an audience could want.
The picture is completed in the audience's head.
BAK...a persepctive on collaboration
Lives are glimpsed...in every passing stranger lies a whole new universe waiting to be discovered. Too often we only consider life from our own restricted point of view. To look through someone else's eyes, to really see the world in this way is invaluable to becoming humane.
We are part of a multifaceted universe, which is complex and diverse and beyond our wildest imagination.
It is time to re-enchant ourselves with the world outside of our selves: to zoom out of our own perspective, to step outside of the self. Now is time to build connections through our differences: to see these not as barriers but bridges on the way to an interlinked and enriched world.
The Wadden Sea
'The world’s largest unbroken intertidal system of sand and mud flats could sink beneath the waves by the end of the century due to sea level rise and subsidence caused by gas drills funded by Barclays and other international banks'
'...Beneath such talk is an attachment to the low-lying, ancient ground on which Romans, Vikings and Franks have trodden.
“It’s the quietness, the view, the smell,” says Schoorstra, “the birds, the starry skies, the little whispers from the cockles, mudworms and mussels. You can go there twice and the whole landscape has changed. It is where the kids have their first love affairs.”
The Wadden Sea tide ebbs and flows twice a day, bringing sand, silt and nutrients which blanket the mud flats in algae. This holds the sand banks together and provides food for the shellfish and smaller creatures that feed the birds and make the ecosystem’s life cycle turn.'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/gas-grab-and-global-warming-could-wipe-out-wadden-sea-heritage-site
Deleuze: Smooth Spaces
'As a matter of fact, the very spaces inhabited by nomads – steppes and deserts – are smooth, and the same is true of the ice desert inhabited by Eskimos, and of the sea roamed by seafaring peoples. In these spaces orientations, landmarks and linkages are in continuous variation, Deleuze observes, and goes on: “there is no line separating earth and sky; there is no intermediate distance, no perspective or contour; visibility is limited; and yet there is an extraordinarily fine topology that relies not on points or objects, but rather on haecceities, on sets of relations (winds, undulations of snow or sand, the song of the sand, the creaking of the ice, the tactile qualities of both).'
http://www.architectureandspace.com/sider/deleuze-and-space-the-smooth-and-the-striated_89.aspx
Catch me, hold onto me before I fade away
Trace the arc of my action
Watch me as I 'disappear'
Am I free or under your control?
I alwats had 'agency', you don't have to give it to me
Life is within me, just as it is you
We share the same matter, the same earth
The world has always been alive
Dorita Hannah at Spring Festival
Evaporating lands...
What if the world was oceanic instead of continental? No borders to be conquered, but instead floating islands and shifting currents de-centre the human
'People are haunted by their own demise' - that's perhaps why we feel a conennction to runied buildings
(see black notebook for more)
Workshop with Vogelaar & Vogels
Video installation with live performance
After focusing on hand positions in various press photos of the 2014 Kiev riots, myself and Maria Khatchadourian developed a performance around the ritual of hand washing. Using a soundtrack of 2014 Kiev riots we washed the earth away from our hands, and in live performance the washing basin becomes filled with the soiled water from our hands.
MATERIAL
Material takes precedent over narrative
Ingredients:
1) Waterscapes
2) Waste landscapes
3) Audio
PAUL JUNO
three main tools: a palate knife, oil paint, and time. The action of the painting can be quick and aggressive, but the time it takes to let gravity finish the job is where these paintings truly shine.
http://thearchivecollective.com/2015/08/paul-juno/
Seeds and wildflowers
- Develop knowledge on origins?
- Seed migration patterns changing due to climate change - link to our consumption
- Stories of nature - how they can link to human condition?
There are those when they see a tree,
see a tree
There are those when they see a tree,
see life
There are those when they see a tree,
see a being
There are those when they see a tree,
listen
There are those when they see a tree,
understand
Yesterday i saw a tree,
I wanted to listen and understand,
But the tree hugged me and
Took me to her roots
And from her roots to the roots
Of all the trees
And from there
To the vibration of the minerals
And to the song of the deep waters
And then took me to dance
In the heartbeat of the Earth
There are those when they see a tree
Are a tree
Angela Boto
- Create conditions for artwork
- Use whatever medium speaks for purpose
- Utilise the small and mundane within the big
