from 15:00 on 06 August until 10:00 on 07 August
The over night workshop is a long choreographic journey. It proposes visual virtual choreographic and sculptural trips inside the body throughout the night. During this choreographic trip we encounter sculptural experiments that will transform the inner and outer space we are in and its atmosphere, until the body will loose the boundaries of what is real and what is not. These sculptural choreographic sessions will expand the contextual boundaries of the term choreography and visual art by proposing an introspective journey throughout the whole night.
The workshop will be consisting of the series of spoken text and analogical sound exploiting and gently deconstructing the ideologies of development (from in utero to walking) and body awareness, function and functional integration present in somatic methods - mostly using the Feldenkrais method as a starting point. The sculptural sessions will be actively present during the whole night and will modulate the space accordingly adapting the same strategies. The attempt is to trouble, destabilise the individualistic ideologies to move away from the desire for privacy, normative patterns and logical relationships. Which rights do we have on our body, does it belong to us, what is mine and furthermore what means "belonging"? While doing that it explores the correspondence of the imaginative potential of language and an actual or a pictured movement. It engages in different states of kinaesthetic, sensorial, mental and cosmic, cannibalistic and tantric experiences by creating a potential for poetic relationships. It inspects the organic lines between private and public, and attempts to balance inner desires and outer realities by teasing and delighting the limbic system of the participants.
Let’s invent what a body is, can be and do as well as how it can be perceived out of normative descriptive parameters. What are the borders of our body, what defines our conception of those borders and how far can we transform and extend these apprehensions. When people enter the room there is not just one reality possible.
From ultra virtual to extremely concrete.
Anne JurenSonia Leimer
