Activity 1: Introduce yourself in questions, keywords and media objects…

[Rachel Boggia]

 

Welcome to meta-academy@HZT-Bates 2015: The Pattern that Connects!

In this lab, you will be collaborating closely with other participants to explore the ways that digital online tools can connect, perform, register, aggregate, map and visualize the knowledge articulated in your choreographic research. We will be responding to your particular practices and expertise as we build the course.   Let’s get to know one another well so that together, we can create an optimal network of ideas, media,tools, and practices.  What connects us?

Activity 1: Introduce yourself in questions, keywords and media objects…

Please complete by: Thursday September 3.  23:59 GMT.
Length of time you will need to complete the activity: at least 1 hour
Format: discussion thread

There are three steps to this activity. Please approach them playfully and honestly.

1. Reply to each of the questions we have posted in this discussion forum.  Here they are together:

• What are the questions that you are asking in your creative research?

• What are the connections that you see between choreography and networked spaces?

  • “Put simply the term networked space‘ accounts for all sites both physical and digital in which interactions occur. Its use highlights the need for social interactions to be contextualized holistically. A networked space is a site of converged narratives. “  -Jenny Kenedy http://www.academia.edu/487450/Conceptualizing_Social_Interactions_in_Networked_Spaces

• What was the last surprising/satisfying connection you made? (a very open-ended question)

2. Reply to each of the posts you made in step 1. In your replies, please do both of the following:

a. Cook down each question into keywords/tags.  These are single words that can serves as categories or labels for your question. Create as many as you can, try for at least 15 per question. Post them as a response to the  question they came from.  

b. Find media- images, videos, audio--or other links that relate to the question.  They can be your own images or ones you find in a search that Illustrate, expand, connect, juxtapose, explode, repeat, etc the question. In any event, choose media that really connect to something about your own practice. Post them as a response to the question they relate to.
You can choose to post links, to upload attachments, or to embed videos in the discussion.

TIP: To embed a video from youtube or vimeo, find it on youtube or vimeo and at the bottom of the video you will see a SHARE button, click the SHARE button, then choose EMBED.  You will see some code.  Copy and paste the code into your post and be sure that you use the HTML editor option.

3. Reply to someone else's post in any way that makes sense to you (using prose, tags, or media).

 

Have fun!

-Marlon Barrios Solano and Rachel Boggia

[Amber Ortega]

narrative

bodies

the gaze

the other

process

self-reflective

constructing

choices

free space

politics

connections

connecting tissue

language

translation

feedback loop

[Amber Ortega]

[Florence Freitag]

Question2:

Now when I think of Choreography, I first read the "Chôra" in it, a place, but also an unsituated space, that is constructed by the matter moving inside, by elements and figures, by separations and new constructions. It is constant dislocation in space. Networked space are as much unsituated, can be everywhere and anytime, change as quickly as they have been build up.

Chôrea, reading Jean-Luc Nancy, is an illness, like epilepsy, not being able to stand still. Networked spaces for me resemble this idea of choreography spaces, I feel like today I can't detract from both of them anymore, being part of the/my everyday life. 

They both are free of a certain logic or rule, being possible at any time and space, as they both construct those. Space becomes bigger and more with choreographic and networked approaches.

Why did I immediately think of choreographic space only as a physical one and networked space only as a virtual one when answering this question? This is interchangeable.

[Florence Freitag]

Link to a survey of the online magazine CORPUS about what is choreography, some also get to network connections here:

http://www.corpusweb.net/introduction-to-the-survey.html

[Rachel Boggia]

Thanks Florence.  Great resource.

Jack Hauser

Choreography is an operating manual for the possibility of being permeated by world. Ouch.

[Florence Freitag]

time

space 

bergson

affect

physical

virtual

building

re/connecting

dislocation

deconstruction

feeling

understanding

free

possibilities

everyday (gestures)

sinking/thinking into motion

[Florence Freitag]

when i think of time

[Florence Freitag]

on connecting and collaboration in networks (of subjects (objects?) and identities)

[Cristine Sonia Baraga]

I like to share a 2012 flyer of one of my work about the same starting point

Disease

Choreia (or chorea) is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term choreia is derived from a Greek word χορεία (a kind of dance, see choreia (dance)), as the quick movements of the feet or hands are vaguely comparable to dancing or piano playing.
Choreia is characterized by brief, quasi-purposeful, irregular contractions that are not repetitive or rhythmic, but appear to flow from one muscle to the next.
These 'dance-like' movements of choreia (from the same root word as "choreography") often occur with athetosis, which adds twisting and writhing movements. Walking may become peculiar, and include odd postures and leg movements.Movements of choreia and ballism occur on their own, without conscious effort.”
(from Wikipedia)

Inside a black &white comic stripes inspired structure where through a compulsive motion
unfolds a series of events that are tried to be grasped and understood,it reveals a state of disease .
Disfunction of impulses reactions,ongoing motion,unable of wield own will,not succeding in having the full control.
The process initiated by an exahusting disease underlines the impossibility of denying the uncapability of interfering in it.
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This work explore the strength of the experience through the body as direct vehicle of comunication.
Centering the attention on the body expression ,using as tools for work the reflections on Johnatan Burrows'Choreographer's Handbook.

15 min ca.
Musiche: Planet Funk,A.A.v.v.

Cristine Sonia Baraga

[Brandon Gonzalez]

The field of choreography, for me, exists already as a networked space. There is the network of the artists themselves, their dialogues through the development and sharing of the work. New work is built off what was built before it. Maybe it’s even possible to draw a line from that connects each choreographic development to the other. The connected lines might become what is called the choreographic “field.” The lines and intersections would represent actual movement and actual shared experiences.  

Sharing, building, drawing, line, development, field, intersections, represent, actual/real

[Przemek Kaminski]

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

I love this movie and literally opened the connection between biological bodies, social systems, improvisation or real time composition...
I loved the format to weave three seemingly unrelated lives in an total ecology of knowledge...
Nature and artificial...