The workshop “Choreography of the space” is searching to explore and create around three basic concepts: no places; choreographic objects and participative systems. The building of Minerva academy has a particular architecture with unexpected spaces with different functions. some spaces are points (A, B, C) where people is meeting to make specific activities and they are spaces that people inhabit and relate with them. Some other spaces are transitions points (Non-place) that people use to travel from point A to B to C, . Non-place or nonplace is a neologism coined by the French anthropologist Marc Augé to refer to anthropological spaces of transience where the human beings remain anonymous and that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places". Examples of non-places would be motorways, hotel rooms, airports and shopping malls. The term was introduced by Marc Augé in his work Non-Places, introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. The challenge of the workshop is to change the naturality of those non-places using choreographic objects. Choreographic objects are the fiscal or conceptual objects that invite and facilitate interaction; Are objects that interrupt the daily life and propose a new way to inhabit the environment, are the hooks to attract participants to action. Choreographic objects activate the environment for movement experimentation. The idea is to create an atmosphere that slightly tweaks the time of everyday movement, inviting it to tend toward the time of the event. In Erin Manning’s essay “Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance” she talks about the choreographic objects, the changes to the environment I just mentioned, as motion-generating agents which interrupt a person’s everyday routine. “They extend beyond their objectness to become ecologies for complex environments that propose dynamic constellations of space, time, and movement. These “objects” are in fact propositions co-constituted by the environments they make possible. They urge participation. Through the objects, space-time takes on a resonance, a singularity: it becomes bouncy, it floats, it shadows” The perception of a space like a non-place, however, is strictly subjective: each of us in his or her own way can see the same place as a non-place, or as a crossroads of human relations. For instance, a hall in Minerva is not a non-place for a person who works cleaning it every day.
This is a class that I have been giving two years ago in the academy MINERVA In the city of Groningen. As a theme, we have been exploring the relationship of the object with space and how the information of the object changes the space and how the information of the space changes the object. we have studied personality, rhythm, habits and the different facets of spaces and objects.
