Move
Away from bureaucratic art
Never towards conformism
Imagine conflict-based collaborations
Fuck individualization in the performing arts
Endanger authorities
Search for social courage
Talk openly
Own little
Inhabit savaged zones of experimentation
Necessity be your motivation
Against the capitalistic void
Start gathering
Enjoy being one of millions
Act together and alone
Reclaiming old strategies
Come back to your audience
Hold together onto immaterial dreams
For new ways of protest
Open the circles of dependence
Risk and be courageous
Western fight for
Empowerment of performing arts today!
WE abandoned our society! WE are stuck! Who are WE performing artists today?
This is the search for a new WE - guiding us towards unexpected forms of existence. WE need to be many - holding together, facing the undreamed!
This Venture addresses dance/theatre/performance-makers of all the ages, nationalities, esthetics who can identify with the Manifesto. It is an open source model, applicable in various circumstances where the healing process is needed.
10 days/12 human beings/1 score
In the course of 10 days, 12 human beings are gathering to test radical solutions to enhance the flow in performing arts today.
Reactivating the spirit of the Greek ancient choir, they become a collective socio-political body of dance, chant and narration. By reclaiming forgotten strategies, they embody first and talk later. They say ‘yes’ to unknown practices and they reactivate artistic and social courage through physical engagement.
Working along the score, they let new faces of collaboration arise; they turn hours spent in a virtual reality into hours of physical commitment.
Rather than being creative as individuals, they seek to embody various reclaimed strategies feeding the collective body to empower itself. They offer their bodies as links, empowered to break established chains of power.
Testing survival strategies in times of natural disaster. Applying strategies of sanity. Embodying survival strategies in the wild, physical practices to overcome a recession, physical strategies to extricate the WE during the political and social situations of greatest distress. Reclaiming old resources of survival strategies in war situations. Reclaiming old physical actions to free your body from environmental pollution!
This venture opens the Search for WE. The search continues until WE is found!
WE Magdalena Chowaniec and Valerie Oberleithner wrote enough emails, called enough people, talked enough time. WE acts and speaks out its demands. It takes what is necessary to move towards the audience.
dance/theatre/performance-makers should not send motivation letters but pix, texts, strong signs of protest and willingness to act together against stagnation and apathy.
More on: www.facebook.com/InASearchForWe
Magdalena ChowaniecValerie Oberleithner
