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

[Florence Freitag]

A thoughtful one: Feeling the connection between what I have been looking for movement&visualy wise in studio during this summer and what I have been writing down and thinking through about continuity and movement. I have been spending some time researching on (with in a way) Maya Deren and her ideas start intermingling with life in a strange way. Thinks make sense then.

A bodily one: Connecting with a little person discovering this world for the first time.

A networked one: Two important people for me both have the same name, starting with the same letter than my name and both working with movement, both coming from south america, such kind of surprising and satisfying connections of every day life, telling me how small networks (virtual or physical) can be.

[Florence Freitag]

[Florence Freitag]

[Amber Ortega]

Now, what is Human?

Robin Nelson suggests that we already find ourselves in a shifted stage of posthumanist, (what he calls) "intermedial reality," in which the impact of computer technologies plays out in our performance practices. 40  Here, "the digital doubling of bodies, virtual bodies, robots, and cyborgs, have entered the intermedial stage, if not to displace humans, then most assuredly to engage with them and question some of their most fundamental assumptions."

41: Nelson, Robin. 'Prospective Mapping' in Bay-Cheng, Sarah, Kattenbelt, Chiel (eds.) Mapping intermediality in performance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010: p. 23.

[Rachel Boggia]

[Florence Freitag]

meeting

connecting

human

discovery

coincidental network

sense

found-choreography

[Florence Freitag]

NOWHERE AND EVERYWHERE - WILLIAM FORSYTHE from Institut für Kunstdokumentation on Vimeo.

[Brandon Gonzalez]

I made a fun connection to my history as an interdisciplinary artist and what that means for me lately. After graduating from TSU (studio art/sculpture) I became interested in the body as a material, so I studied performance, dance, and theater and went on to get an MFA in this context. It's exciting for me to circle back to my roots here because it continues to mark a line/pathway that connects disciplines (or worlds). This line, has bounced in and out of these worlds and created openings for my creative practice. It has allowed for ideas/practices to develop on the edges of each discipline. So interdisciplinary arts practice and methodology, for me lately, is not about sitting still in an empty space between but a jumping in and out of worlds. It's a continual crossing of boundaries that begins to ruffle some edges, chaotic but productive. It's nice to have the ability to do so. 

interdisciplinary, practice, methodology, border crossing, chaos, disruption 

[Florence Freitag]

Thank you for pointing out another definition of being "in between" states: "is not about sitting still in an empty space between but a jumping in and out of worlds."

In-betweenness is engaging and productive exactly because of it's change continuity of the whole process and as we know out of chaos there are new ways for creative pathways. so it's about movement.

[Danilo]

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

What is interesting to the other?

What is boring to the other?

How can something intersting become boring?

How can something boring become intersting?

Dessert and dinner or dinner and dessert: Does order matters?

In which context does a movement take place?

How can a movement change the context?

How is this movement capable of changing the context?

When do we differenciente dancing from daily-life human movements? Is it just a matter of framing? Or is there some specific dynamic/form/use of space that usually applies?

What in terms of form and context haven't you tried yet with your body?

[Danilo]

vintage

kitsch

getnaked

upsidedown

repetetion

fashion

intimacy

identification

sex

publictransportation

[Danilo]