Workshop
Tashkent - UZ
16.01. - 28.01.2012 Workshop with final Showing (work-in-progress)
In collaboration: Goethe-Institut Taschkent and State Highschool for National Dance Tashkent
Objects in performance
Symposium, presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and Performance Studies, NYU, and curated by André Lepecki
03.02. & 04.02.2012
at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th floor
The recent phenomenon of object-invested experimental dance and
performance echoes the resurgence of the object in recent philosophy,
literary and critical race studies, as well as in the visual arts. This
resurgence of the object also has implications for studies on
subjectivity.
Scholars and artists from a variety of fields will present their most recent research on this matter.
With Barbara Browning, Franz Anton Cramer, Eleonora Fabião, George
Ferrandi, Jenn Joy, Heather Kravas, Thomas Lehmen, André Lepecki, Eva
Meyer-Keller,Sarah Michelson, Ann Pellegrini, Allen S.Weiss, Norah
Zuniga Shaw
Workshop - Motion Bank
Frankfurt am Main (GE)
Things of Significance, Of Symbols & Scores
Thomas Lehmen and z’ev
14-17.02.2012
Thomas Lehmen (choreographer) and z’ev (composer) will offer a four-day workshop that draws on z’ev’s creative research into phenomenology and rhythm, and Lehmen’s exploration of social systems in his art practice. The workshop will include research into both sound and motion making with a focus on how the demands of the contents and causes of individual importancies (things of significance) be met in their transcription into a ‘score’ without recourse to arbitrary numerological, graphical or geometrical devices. How can scores mediate relations between both the production of sound and action/ movement and the people producing them? The emphasis of the workshop will be on these inter-relationships themselves rather than on what is produced per se. In this context, certain questions will be explored such as: What, in fact, is a score? Is it a subject/ subjective or an object/ objective? Is it a set formulation or a process? How can experience give rise to a score? And how can one exteriorize/ personify imagination and embody that in a linear flow of symbols? On a practical level, participants would first conceive a monological narrative based on imaginal states /events that they wish to re-present, in this case, for either/ both sound and action/ movement. And then, translate/ interpret that monologue, by whatever means, to construe a symbolic vocabulary [score] to engage in dialogue.
Participation fee for the workshop is 95€ / reduction 65€ (students). Spaces are limited. Eearly registration is advised. Free entrance to the Thursday evening Salon. The workshop will be conducted in English