Shuffle catalog #7 - November 2014

Shuffle Project #7 November 2014

Shuffle Project #7 November 2014

what is a Shuffle Project?

Shuffle project is a platform for development of ideas. Artists from various fields (Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Music, Photography, Film or Hybrid) share a week in the Gallery c/o the OT301.Each participant is invited to run a one-day workshop and take part in all the other's with a full week commitment.

On Sunday, at the end of the week of production between the artists invited to partake and 4bid, the doors open and the Show is on, ready to be seen, experienced,discussed critically with the public. The entire week is accurately documented and a catalog, of which this one is an example, is produced for each edition of Shuffle Project.

Shuffle Project #7 November 2014

edition #7

If I give everything, do I still trust that what is left is enough?

“The discovery of us - A defined flickering of self that emerges from the less distinct tumbling of selves.

In our shuffle crumble the thoughts take a full circle.

After a week of shuffle the ambiguous and the definite are equally available.

The human game seems to be about touching on the ever-changing resonance between us, finding the concave and convex of self or identity�

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Participants to edition #7 Artist participating to the week of exchange: Anna Casey (UK), Silvia Berti (IT), Harriet Latham (UK), Chris van der Welde (NL), Povials Bastys (LT ) 4bid Giacomo Cardoni, Documetation Irina Baldini.

Anna Casey

Anna Casey is a Performance Artist. Her work pares-down movement to it's very essence to explore how simplicity can produce a quiet yet powerful presence in space.

Her practice-based research spans from nonstylized to spontaneous movement. From this a number of fascinating contexts and outcomes have emerged, culminating in projects as well a driving desire to explore this and the open responsive body as a medium of expression further: Anna has placed her work in relation to public, private and enclosed spaces: Her work has been performed and installed nationally and internationally.

Anna is currently completing her MA in Creative Practice: Dance as a Professional Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Anna was awarded the Gill Clarke Bursary funded by the Leverhulme Arts Scholars Award to fund this postgraduate study.

Some examples of Anna’s work include collaborations with Charles Atlas, Mika Tajima and New Humans. Gaby Agis, Augusto Correiri, Rosemary Butcher and experimental sound artist Kassia Zermon aka Bunty.

Silvia Berti Silvia Berti was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1982, where she studied contemporary dance, ballet, improvisation, voice/ movement improvisation and music (piano).

In 2004 she graduated with Honours at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, directed by Marion North, where she attended the BA (hons) Dance Theatre and where she met international artists like: Kirstie Simson, Christian Burns, Susan Sentler, Gill Clarke, Rosemary Butcher, Marina Collard and Tony Toutcher.

Since 2004 she attended workshops with Akhram Khan, Kirstie Simson, Christian Burns, Martin Kilvadi, David Zambrano,Inaki Azpillaga, Virgilio Sieni, Julien Hamilton, Rosemary Butcher, Simona Bertozzi, Miranda Tuffnell. She also attended the Summer Intensive organized by Trisha Brown Company in New York.

In 2014 she attended and finished the MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Pathway at Trinity Laban and Independent Dance, she is also worked as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher of

Shuffle Project #7 November 2014 contemporary dance and ballet.

In 2006 she participated to Resolution! As a choreographer and video artist with Il Sospetto che io sia il Diavolo mi è venuto Ieri. Since then she choreographed several works as Stop Trick (2011) and Eodem Tempore (2014), but she also collaborated with artists coming from different backgrounds as a choreographer and as a dancer.

In 1998 she had a role in Paysage après la battaille by Angelin Preljocaj. She danced for several Italian choreographers and directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ambra Senatore, Roberto Castello, Giorgio Rossi and MK. She also danced for international choreographers like Kirstie Simson, Susan Sentler, Julia Gleich. For several years she taught ballet, release, improvisation and she worked with a group of blind adults.

She also created Phren (research and performances in urban spaces), a group of adolescent dancers based in Bologna.

Harriet Latham Harriet Latham was born in the UK and graduated in 2007 from London Contemporary Dance School with a BA honours in contemporary dance. Since, she has been dancing in a variety of dance and dance film projects. Harriet has worked for English National Opera in both ‘Caligular’ and ‘Parsifal’, LIFT Company in connection with Elizabeth Streb Company performing extreme action theatre, for Balbir Singh Dance Company, Tempered Body Dance Company, as well as

in a dance film ‘Syzygy’ by Mandy Denton filmed by Schmick.

With Margueite Caruana Galizia Harriet danced 'Quartet' as well as performing an installation piece 'Past walking'.

Working with the Cedar Dance Theatre Company Harriet danced in an interactive DVD for digital dance for Janet Randell directed by Kenneth Tharp. She is also a qualified Pilates instructor through the Pilates foundation and teaches freelance in London.

Harriet has continued to explore improvisation into performance with a number of other dance artists such as, Jess Curtis, Rosemary Butcher, Thomas Kampe, Rick Nodine, Jovair Longo, MirandaTufnell, Gabi Agis, and Nancy Stark Smith. In 2014 she completed an MA in Creative Practice (Dance Professional Pathway) at Trinity Laban and Independent Dance, where she embarked on further making of her own work.

In Harriet’s latest work A Holding performed at Laurie Grove Studio’s (2014) she has been exploring the practice of making as the enacted work leads the unfolding work across the mediums of dance, film and sound.

Chris van der Weide Chris van der Weide is an independent cross-art performance artist, her works researches interconnectivity within framed encounters between subjective fields of energy and bodies. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts (Theatre Directing & Theatre in Education) and has been awarded several bursaries to complete

Shuffle Project #7 November 2014 her Masters of Arts, Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice Pathway at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London (2013/2014). Chris is working within theatre, dance and live/digital art as both a director/choreographer & performer as well as teacher, lecturer and workshop facilitator. Chris’s works have been performed and presented at Laurie Grove Studio’s (UK, 2014), Carte Blanche in conjunction with Kulturprinsen (DK, 2013), De Warande (BE, 2013), Lust for life young, United-C (NL, 2012), Festival Mundial (NL, 2012) and Storm Festival (NL, 2010 – 2012) amongst other places.

As a performer, Chris has previously collaborated and performed with Willem Wassenaar (NZ), Liv Kaastrup Vesterskov (DK), Paul de Bruyne (BE), United Cowboys (NL), Marieke Breyne (BE), Boukje Schweigman (NL), Inge van Gestel (BE), Sara Topsoe-Jensen (DK), Sarah John (AU) and she has been intensively taught and inspired by Rosemary Butcher (UK), Martin Hargreaves (UK), Gaby Agis (UK), Miranda Tufnell (UK), Enrique Vargas (CO),

Pauline Roelants (NL) and Tom Mc. Crory (NZ).

Over the term of several years Chris has worked in and extensive range of educational systems and has taught at numerous institutions in the Netherlands, worked for Little Voices (NL/PH, 2012) on the Philippines and completed an internship at Long Cloud Youth Theatre (NZ, 2010) in New Zealand.

Povilas Bastys P. Bastys, born in 1992, Lithuania.

There he was studying at Lithuanian nation art school as a ballet dancer.

In 2010 dropped out from art school and moved to Denmark. In 2011 he started his studies at Denmark’s National School of Performance Art as a contemporary dancer. Now he is on his last study year where he is working on different creative projects.

4bid

Giacomo Baldini

Cardoni

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Irina

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Day #1 Giacomo Cardoni (4bid)

What is the value of creation?

What does the act of destroying generate in us?

How are objects charged with value?

Why do we hurt is something is taken away from us?

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Giacomo's questions were related to the way one shows and successfully shares the importance (or the emotional value) of what one makes.

As an experiment he offered others the chance to destroy his work, if they wanted to, with the intention of triggering what he considers to be everyone's “instinct of a child”, so to stimulate those reactions coming from what he calls a “human core”, a place where something originates and is universal.

The participants created, giving shapes to clay, representations of each other.

Then they were invited to destroy them.

The atmosphere created by Giacomo was poetic.

The room gradually filled itself with small sculptures of clay which inhabited it on the floor, in corners, under and on benches, half lit by spot lights, movable beams of warm light creating shadows on the gallery walls which blended together with the shadows of the participants.

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What is the core of oneself?

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Day #2 Silvia Berti What is it that persists within ourselves throughout life?

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Three bodies, on the ground, horizontal.

Hands are the easiest part of the body to sense, Sound is constant.

Everything in the room talks the same language.

What is the embodiment of Core?

Translating thought into movement, Movement to the paper.

In Silvia's workshop, drawing after having moved, finishes something, or brings it to another form. It extends and grounds the fleeting movement material.

Something that had been abstract can find definition. “It can even tell us something more about ourselves�

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Day #3 Chris van der Weide

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A room, empty form speed filled with hums echoes volumes between two hands Volumes of bodies full and made of matter resonating in different tones and colours of voices echoing in the empty space.

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Chris deliberately did not inform the participants to the workshop about the goals of her proposed tasks. All was left for processing at the end of the day. The themes of her workshop were Trust, Intimacy, Presence, Connection.

She devised a number of exercises to establish these focal points of the work, and allowed small and subtle but strong things to emerge. “Experience the edges of the 'other' body by feeling its volume.

The hands are touching the body, and the body is also touching the hands�

Sitting in front of one another, the participants, in pairs, explore touch: touching is also being touched.

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Day #4 Anna Casey

Beautifully on the day when light was mentioned, a very strong shadow was projected on the gallery wall.

Close and far sounds, bright and smooth, moving silhouettes.

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Through the workshop Anna tried to understand how the 'languaging' she chose translated into feelings for those listening and following her words, to see where her indications would lead other bodies. “Find a space, sitting, lying, standing.

Listen to the sounds close to you, and the details of those as far from you as possible.

Observe the journeys of sound from close to far, from inside the body to outside the body�.

What is the of sound?

movement

Does it of you?

anything

ask

What can you hear?

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Day #4 / part 2 Harriet Latham

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Experimenting with performance on an extended period of time, whilst being watched by a colleague.

Considering that 'performance' might mean different things for different people.

Being invited, as a viewer, to adjust the view by moving closer or farther from the performer, to find interests or attraction, or boredom, and reacting to it.

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Day #5 Povilas Bastys

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What is freedom?

Observing the fact of having been observed, remembering and forgetting only that which is necessary.

Two after two copying adding and changing the same experience of having no freedom apart from their own will to move.

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Povilas was interested in limitation. He had one of the participants standing on their two feet, not being allowed to move them but everything else.

Their partner was watching, making of the performance what they liked.

Eyes were closed, performers were playing with what they could: clothes, layers, shoes, walls in proximity, sounds of their own voices..until some music comes on for the last period of the set.

Then they swapped over, but keep the same limitation, the same position of their partner. Each performance is half hour.

Some tiredness came across, time became slower than its memory, and each one's self started to emerge after the task. The limitation was powerful.

Poetry emerges, it seemed, after all.

A 'state' was achieved and the room received it.

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In preparation for the Show The artists gathered to discuss the week, find out topical themes, and addressed the practicalities of sharing the outcomes of the project with the public.

Some of the overarching themes seemed to be: identity; the way one perceives things and is related/attached to them; the idea of self (“where do I end, where do I begin?; what is Me and what belongs to me?; who am I?; what is feeling?; am I me because I feel?�).

They all agreed that the show was not about proofing a point but sharing an experience with a few helpful tools.

After a number of ideas bouncing in and around the table, the participants decided they all had a desire of giving the audience a taste of what they did during the week. How? With a one-to-one experience based on personal information they would give to the visitor, creating intimacy and relationship during their meeting.

Shuffle Project Open Show Description: One to one experience Duration: ~ 5 to 10 minutes per person

They enter the foyer, welcomed by one of the artists.

They get a paper with three pieces of information regarding two of the participants.

They get to choose one, who they will meet in the gallery.

It is just the two of them, not knowing each other.

Their encounter lasts 10 minutes.