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

[Rachel Boggia]

[Erased Bodies]

What is the relationship of the different bodies involved in the work?

How is this shaped and how does it evolve?

How can we understand what is happening using only our perception? How can we describe it?

tags:

bodywork

research

proprioception

context

relationship

in-between

practice

[Rainy Demerson]

Hi all! There are a lot of places to hit "reply" so I hope I'm doing this right. 

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

What are the connections between my body and where it is stands/dances? 

What are the connections between a body and the history of that place? 

In what ways do my actions/thoughts/dances leave a mark on a place? 

In what spaces/places do I feel invited and/or entitled to leave a mark? 

How does the ephemeral nature of dance/movement/presence still leave a trace in space and time and affect the history of the place? 

How does gentrification affect the visibility and power of displaced communities?

What entitles a person to a sense of ownership in a place? 

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

Choreography is generally created to be seen and therefore is always being seen by the choreographer with a second set of eyes - those of the potential audience members and participants. Once performed and viewed, a network is created. As for virtual and digital realities, I see us shifting into a space of 2 dimensions, global distribution, energy misinterpretations, and heightened expectations of metaphysical visions to match Hollywood CGI. We also have the possibility of bringing digital media into live performance and also inviting the audience and performers to acknowledge and manipulate the "converged narratives."

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

physical: boyfriend's lips on mine as he left for work

mental: this group

spiritual: went to hear monks chant in a candle-lit church last night

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What are the connections between my body and where it is stands/dances? 

Tags: body, place, link

What are the connections between a body and the history of that place? 

Tags: graffiti, history, place, space, time, body

In what ways do my actions/thoughts/dances leave a mark on a place? 

tags: trace, shadow, leftover, tattoo

In what spaces/places do I feel invited and/or entitled to leave a mark? 

tags: scar, tattoo, indent, puncture, wound, inflict, impression, memory, trace, outsider, insider

How does the ephemeral nature of dance/movement/presence still leave a trace in space and time and affect the history of the place? 

tags: ephemeral, enigma, lie, memory, history, missing, telephone, archive, retell, remember, forget

How does gentrification affect the visibility and power of displaced communities?

tags: mine, yours, money, capital, indigenous, community, unwanted, unsightly, discriminate

What entitles a person to a sense of ownership in a place? 

tags: buying power

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