What do you start from when initiating a project?
How do you work with the other people involved in the project?
How do you use the time of the creation?
What are the phases in the creation of a performance?
How do you consider the spectators’ experience when preparing a performance?
Which skills do you use?
Which conventions do you use?
Which modes of representation do you use?
How do you position yourself in relation to the object/topic/discourse of your work?
When does the discourse of your work become clear to you?
Which habits do you recognise in your way of working?
This game is a collaborative "lecture", which starts from a clear and personal point of interest as a suggestion to share and develop this content through the different perspectives of the lecture-participants.
On wabi sabi
1) The Wabi Sabi is the beauty of things unfinished, temporary and imperfect
2) Imperfection not as a priori , but as aesthetic possibilities
3)The imperfection is not caused, the imperfection happens
4) The occurrence is the result of a dynamic creative vitality and openness to different possibilities
5) The openness causes doubts and asymmetric ways of work
6) To enable this is necessary a clear initial conceptual intent
7) These requirements allow the questioning of the proceeding, causing new needs
8) Once the needs are determined the shape define itself by itself
everybodys performance scores is a collection of performance scores that aims to give an overview on the current state within the performing arts. Addressing questions of notation, reproduction/interpretation, documentation, history and score independence, the collection seeks to reveal different models and approaches to work. The contributors were invited to submit works in the following categories:
- performance scores ready to be performed
- scores to document, reflect and share thoughts behind performance works
- new scores yet to be actualized
The Delta Ensemble's European Project / Opera, musical theatre, creative music and electronics arts
A New Musical Joint Adventure
Boosted with the benefit of an original, musical, technical and human know-how, enliven with an immoderate taste for meetings, sharing and collective achievements, the Delta Ensemble launches into a new creative adventure.
Jean-Paul G Noguès, who is a composer and a software developer specialized in computer assisted music and multi-media, has conceived this project.
Fifteen theses on contemporary art
1. Art is not the sublime descent of the infinite into the finite abjection of the body and sexuality. On the contrary, it is the production of an infinite subjective series, through the finite means of a material subtraction.
2. Art cannot merely be the expression of a particularity (be it ethnic or personal). Art is the impersonal production of a truth that is addressed to everyone.
by Milan Markovic, June 10th 2010
People active in the independent scene should:
1. try to intervene in wider social contexts, connecting with other groups and networks on the social scene
2. use imagination, not only for their art and works but also to think of new forms of production, process, cooperation and ways to fund...
3. not be bound by their field of work; there is a great danger in feeling secure in our own position of professionals
there are 2 basic functions that need activation during the whole performance:
- describing the fictional performance (FP)
- asking for questions
other functions can be used as support / variations:
- conceptualising the FP
- describing the process
- conceptualising the process
- making an ideological statement
- telling an anecdote
- getting personal
- keeping silent
- telling the collective’s history
- showing (speaking or gesturing)
- showing the process
- showing a reference
- define the role of each performer in the FP
- not knowing
> «yeah, that’s it»
> thighs clapping
> postures («listening» / «relaxing»)
> «Oh, interesting» : shift forward
> “education”: change position
> "An angel passed by": a sudden group stillness and silence
> Momentum: a very busy physical activity
- canons (repeat each other in a chain)
- to get affected by somebody else tic or physical attitude
- ‘Roi Jean’ («I didn’t do that, he did / no, I didn’t do that, she did» etc.)