Long term memory
Knowledge of
Collective performance making
Ritual, communion
Living archive
Skills
One-on-one sensory experience
Theatre vs live image, presence vs documentation
Interactive ritual
Installation highlighting materail agencies
Experiences
Schneider
Assignment
Nature | Artifical (manmade).
Human - what is the state of our relationship with nature? (e.g. zoos)
How do we attempt to control this?
- As a spectator how involved are you in what you see?
- Perception; not what you see but how
- Visually-dominated culture; power of the image is reduced, do we need sensory experiences to make us feel? Do we judge reality by what we see, or what we feel?
How to use subtle sensory experiences to affect spectators' perception of their connection with the natural world?
- Antagonising the divide; rupturing it
Looking ahead planning, prepare, discuss, imporvise, experiemnt, generate, assemble, collect, manipulate materials
Physical environemnt
Responsive to a site/place both INSIDE & OUTSIDE
Blackbox experiments with light and smoke
Material
- Natural materials: leaves, branches, flowers, seeds
- Natural growth processes: algae, bacteria (living scenography)
- Link to sensor system
- Artifical: glass, rubbish bags, construction materials
- 2 way mirror. reflections
- Diffused light and filters
- Soundscape of breath/control
Experiments
Immersive non/sensory experience time-based
Performative and experimental edible environments
Sensor spaces (micro-macro)
Gaia's Machine
Collaboration: scientists, sound designers, sensor technology
Teresa Borasino 'Eat Drink Spill Hope'
'Eat Drink Spill Hope is a research project that examines the impacts of climate change on the production, distribution and consumption of food. The research is materialised in performance/dinners events where the public is invited to participate actively, tasting a variety of flavours, sensations and events distilled from the causes and consequences of the climate crisis.'
http://teresaborasino.com/work/
Literature
New Materialism
Brian Massumi - action and affect
Lisbeth - Valkerian gaze
Dorita Hannah - traces in space
Nietschze Apollo & Dionysus
Ecocriticism
Post-humanism
Maaike Bleeker The Locus of Looking: Embodied seeing vs to see is to know? Physical seeing vs objective seeing. The spectator and the performance are not separate: performance is an encounter between art and the viewer.
Merleau-Ponty The Visible and the Invisible. Distance between the seer and the thing is not an obstacle, but a means of communication. 'The thickness of the body, far from rivalling that of the world, is on the contrary the sole means I have to go unto the heart of the things, by making myself a world and by making them flesh.'
Karen Barad Posthumanist Performativity: how the subject/object divide is brought into being. Agency of material through intra-action. Deepen understanding of matter as performative.
Latour Facing Gaia: a nonmodern political philosophy of nature. A way to approach Gaia once the divide between human and nonhuman is broken.
Inspirations
Mette Ingaversten 'Artifical Nature'
Germaine Kruip 'Possibility of an Abstraction'
Mediamatic
Walden Collective
What is our bodily connection to our environment?
Is technology concealing our bodily sensory connection to nature?
Or is it inextricably connected to how we perceive our environment?
- If so, what connection can we have to nature now? -
How can we use a performance to dissolve the divide between human and nonhuman?
- redefine our ways of perceiving ‘human’ and ‘nonhuman’
- redefine what is the human?
