In the Making #5: Barbro Scholz and Li Lorian, Experiencing Text and Textile. In
this session researchers Barbro Scholz and Li Lorian ask the following
questions: How does light feel on the body? What sort of togetherness is there
in reading text?
They will explore tangible and intangible experiences of voice and textile
light. In their practice, both artists are interested in ways of communicating
aesthetic experience. Procedures of documentation and transmission bring up
questions concerning audience, spectatorship and participation in the art field
and artistic research. We aim to open up for participative thinking and valuing
aesthetic and experiential knowledge of ourselves and others.
Artist and designer Barbro Scholz deals with experiential qualities of tangible
(textiles) and intangible (light) materials, and how their interplay invites for
novel forms of performativity.
Performer and artist Li Lorian is interested in practices of reading text, to
oneself and outloud, voicing and finding new means of commonality. Both of them
have an interest in movement, affect, and entanglement to be investigated in a
playful, participatory, collaborative research. This session is a great
opportunity for them to find ways to share their yet unformulated thoughts in an
experiential method with an audience.
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IN THE MAKING
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art
Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the
new public series ‘In the Making’. In six public sessions they will present to
the public different practices of research in the arts.
Artistic production has always expressed the forms in which we know, explore,
and sense the world we live in. The current practice of research in the arts
consciously assumes this exploration. In the past decades the focus on research
in the domain of the arts has grown – as well as its role in universities and
other research contexts – expressing its engagement with the realities of the
world at large.
‘In The Making’ will address how artists conduct their research. Guest artist
researchers and artist researchers from Leiden University will present their
projects, approaches to research, methods and results. Each session will address
questions inherent to these projects. ‘In The Making’ aims to deepen a
perspective which conceives of artistic practice not as the sole product of
individual visionaries but as a collective endeavor embedded in society. It
addresses the role of art in the construction of the present and the creation of
possible futures.
Workshop with Jefta Tanate
05december 2022
-06december 2022
Dunantstraat 14a, 3024 BC Rotterdam, Netherlands
Description
Workshop with Jefta Tanate
In these 2 days, we will be focussing on partner work and guided improvisations to awaken your senses and awareness. Preparing the body in order to investigate the possibilities in the air and incorporate this into your working methods. Through given tools to playfully explore this area by yourself and with other bodies. Creating confidence that you can catch yourself with suppleness and strength. This does not involve big risks or unreachable heights but finding subtlety in what 'lifting off' of the floor could bring you and your work. Set-material will be a part of the research, so you will experience a sense of routine. Techniques ranging from floorwork, contact-improvisation, martial arts, and circus will give you a broad view of how your physical instrument would cope in different situations.
Practical information
- Two days workshop: Monday 05.12.2022 & Tuesday 06.12.2022 | 11.30 - 14.30
- Price: €60 (for both days) excl. service fee
- You can enter the space at 11.00
- There will be a class for professional dancers from 9.30-11.00 that Lazy Susan & Co. provides. It is 5,5€ for a class. Sebastian Pedersen will be teaching these days.
- There is a kitchen in the space, so if you need to store your food in the fridge or have tea/coffee, it is possible!
- The minimum of 7 participants is required in order for the workshop to happen. In the event of cancellation there will be a full refund excl. service fee.
Jefta Tanate
Jefta Tanate graduated at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem, The Netherlands. His internship at Scapino Ballet Rotterdam was his entrance into the Dutch dance scene. Since then he has adopted multiple techniques and methods such as Contact-Improvisation, Martial Arts and Circus. He had the opportunity to develop this within companies like Maas TD and Arch8. In Maas TD he developed a new perspective on movement. Nowadays he works mostly as a freelancer where the work he makes is very versatile. Ranging from outdoor site-specific performances to touring with companies like; Panama Pictures where the aspect of The circus is incorporated within his work more and more. Now supported by De Nieuwe Oost and SHIFFT as a new maker. He is making his way to create more content for his own work. His last work was nominated for De Jonge Zwaan.
Photo credits
Preview pictures (dance pictures) - Kevin Kanales | Headshot - Jan Mulders