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ArtistSummit
This blog aims to document, share and extend the conversations and processes that are initiated during the Tanzplatform 2018 at PACT Zollverein, Essen.
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Vision 2. Artists Run Spaces
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Listen to the Visions.1 on Artists Run spaces! A result of reflecting and dreaming together during the World Cafe, a discussion practice in which there are several tables each having a subject and a host; the visitors of the table switch every 30 minutes. At the end each host present what has been developed during the discussion practice.
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Here are Cards against Contemporary Dance, a work that came out of Dark Talk that happened during the Artist Summit between Katja Cheraneva and Robyn Doty. The first game will be played tonight at PACT Zollverein! Don't miss it! #darktalk #pactzollverein #artistsummit #artistatwork #game #capturethis
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Post Summit. Observations. #1
Observations from Liz Waterhouse.
In participating the summit I took away the following observations.
I was surprised by the general sense that the participants share a common ethos. Social bonds were made quickly. Despite the divergences in our professional aesthetics, we shared a culture of listening to and taking care of one another. This provided a sense of solidarity. The artists also shared the ability to co-habit, share and arrange space together, perhaps an artifact of studio-based practice. The participants often spoke about existential concerns and mixed speaking about personal and professional matters. They also described the social exhaustion that came along with the long days of the meeting—mostly as a pleasant feeling.
Despite the dependency of freelance artists on grants for individual projects, there is a strong interest in modes of collaboration and sharing.
The participants have highly refined skills in verbal and nonverbal communication. While not all were comfortable with public speaking, the capacity for such multi-layered communication appears to be highly specific to the field of contemporary dance. The artists also understand how to arrange and participate in social choreographies for exchange and communicating.
One reoccurring topic during the Summit was the strong discursive component of dance production in the last two decades—and the increasing expectation for artists to engage intellectually with their own and their colleagues’ work, to develop formats of process-based exchange and to exhibit or transmit their knowledge There were divergent reactions as to how to respond to this pressure, expressed with sentiments ranging from excited-interest to jaded-irritation. It was a common expectation that some discursive activities would be included and funded as part of an artistic project, though not all artists were motivated by these aspects. Interestingly, citation of specific discourse happened infrequently in the Summit, and predominantly in regard to feminism. One specific issue that came up was the production structure of grant applications, in which the artists believed that discourse (i.e. “citing Deleuze” or using words such as ‘embodiment,’ ‘agency,’ and the ‘self’) plays a major role. The artists asked whether this discourse skewing or directing artistic production. Another concern was the potentially homogenizing effect of all artists using the English language, and how this excludes ideas expressive in native tongues, untranslated literature, or literature outside of the popular or powerful cannon of references.
A second reoccurring topic was how to share artistic process and knowledge—with other artists and outside the field of dance. This was also met with different sentiments. While local networks are being built, there are not yet regional or international networks to link projects of process-based exchange and knowledge production. There are also not continuous funding sources, requiring this work to take place on a short timeline and often without institutional walls and resources. There are also few grants to fund the literature, discursive dissemination, scholarly collaborations, and administrative costs to foster knowledge production on a large scale. On a smaller scale, there is an outpouring of online possibilities for self-production in the forms of websites/blogs containing text, video and images, and for using non-curated mediums. Discussion of how to share resources, link projects and benefit from experience in collaboration with scholars was a reoccurring topic. The relationship of this artistic activity, and its possible overlap with the activities of Universities/Hochschule was not discussed.
A last observation was that while the participants demonstrate an immense potential to generate creative ideas, and to do so quickly, critique and group decision remains a slower process. The bigger the group the more time this takes. Also, repetitive structures and behaviors appeared quite quickly within the group. Future work could examine how to achieve decisions lightly and to keep critique and revision part of working structures.
#artistsummit#lizwaterhouse#pactzollverein#danceandperformance#beingtogether#labouroftheartist#observations#postsummit
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Cyril and Robyn talk about Eyes Wide Shut
Some people play with fire
Depends on the rules and regulation
I don’t have anything in common with ritual dance
When bodies and verbalization don’t match
You can always mute the audio
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A poem on the last day with Mattias, Katja and Robyn
Every morning we come
Drink Coffee
Out of sudden
Snow falls silently from the white sky
Inside bodies move with time
Outside nature doesn’t care
Warm each other
Bodies without border
Sucking in each other thoughts
Exposing themselves to post-its
Discussion groups
In the dark giving confessions
Taking detours
Always return to the institution
We’re reaching new levels of intimacy
But don’t joke about sexual harassment
Love is everywhere
Even with closed eyes
I don’t feel it now
Like maybe later
I don’t feel it any more
It was great in the beginning and than like, whatever
Wait you go like
You this happens
Your eyes
In
And then
It’s winking
But I can’t control my eyelids
So I do it manually
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tearin up my heart
the urge to confess
flooding the inner circle
teardrops implode loud
by Mattias Düking
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As a part of Tanzplatform, Frances, Robyn, Norbert and Katja(summit artists) will host a forum at PACT Zollverein! Come and happen!
#wwyw #artistsummit #danceandperformance #pactzollverein #harassmentindance #metoo
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In Inuit culture, the community meets once a year to solve conflicts, or take important decisions. In order to do that they perform "conference without words", where they sit in a circle and make silence conversations. The ceremony lasts for a long time. During one of the Blocks, we performed conference without words for 1 hour and 30 min! The conversations were at times intense, and at some others times very funny.😊🍌💜
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come on closer
sing, burst out the pain
excorcism of yourself
approach new bodies
by Mattias Düking
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in the sheets
having no sheets, no
smell of cinnamon and fruits
dreams and no dreams, whales
by Mattias Düking
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This morning we tried out a method of group conversation called “Wold Cafe.” After selecting five topics of interest, we arranged “cafe clusters” in the room, with tables, chairs and cushions—whatever we felt was needed. In this setting we broke into small groups and spoke for one hour, changing cafe clusters midway though. The host facilitated and documented the conversation by taking notes. After lunch we reconvened all together, and using the notes as prompts, exchanged upon our topics.
The first group discussed interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and natural scientists, discussing their individual motivation to enter into these collaborations, how pragmatically they can be arranged, and how these collaborations might signal, in both fields, a necessity for a relief from or revision of their own working-practice.
The second group looked generally at the figure of the artist. Making a concept map, they showed the locus of factors surrounding this topic, such as urgency, freedom, branding, institutions, middle men, lifestyle, concepts and money. A prominent question was: when is the moment when an artist is out of relation?
The third group, led by Whistle While You Work, was looking for feedback on their handout of advice for how to respond to abuse and aggressive behavior, especially inappropriate touch. They practiced saying and listening to statements, such as how to say “no.” They also collected advice: saying phrases with I, advocating and teaming up to respond to harassment, refusing to allowing the situation to be comic and following ongoing consent.
The fourth group discussed how to share artistic knowledge and why (or why not) was there this urge to do so. They listed multiple options, including: artist run publications, coming together around a topic, reading groups, workshops, artist talks and critiquing other people’s work. What do these exchanges manifest, or in other language, what outcomes do they produce? How can knowledge in the arts feed other fields outside it? When does experience become knowledge? How does change, with age for example, such as young artists vs. older artists?
The fifth group brainstormed how to arrange the artist summit’s open hours to the public, when there could be 300-400 people. Options are still open. Should we change what we are doing? Do we have an interest in remaining permeable to the audience? How do we perceive this space—is it intimate or part of the marketplace? What are our different desires? What was the idea of making it public and should we choose instead to shut the doors? A schedule is being made, of who is present when and who is away at performances.
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