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a.pass a.pt (advanced performance training)
is a 12-month post-master performance research programme, developed out of the individual projects of the participants, and based on the principles of self-organisation and collaboration.


next DEADLINE call for projects
(for start in September 2010):
1st of May 2010


read the a.pass brochure for more info on selection procedure




a.pt projects

PARADISEon my wallI said I´m sad you said too badCurriculumArbeit.Oderentwederimagineering hopeStorytelling
ART/LIFEKaethes SchmerzONE YEAR LIFE PERFORMANCE 2.0on my eyeTHE PIGS OF TODAY ARE THE HAMS OF TOMORROWon my plateexplosif body
DOCUMENTARY / PERFORMANCEon my waykibbutz in a creative processAPPEAL USdon't / BE HUMANDo You Have 5 MinutesGaseous
hard working idlersReading SessionsRES&REF diaryperformative mappingtoolbox res&refMacroPhotographycollaborative research

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On the Relationship between I & Reality (or Cosmos) from the Vedas

on my way -- iuliana daniela varodi -- Mon 8 Mar 2010 -- 0 reactions

(...) Ravi Ravindra remembers us of the rishi Dirghatamas of Rigveda, and his statements about the relationship between the I (aham) and the cosmos (idam)

"I know not clearly whether I am the same as this cosmos: a mystery I am, yet, conceived in mind I wander". 

One verse later Dirghatamas says 

"When the first born principle of Rta (cosmic law) entered in me, then of this vak (speech) I obtained a portion". 

Discussing absolute knowledge, R. Ravindra mentions about the vedic sacrifice as the "sacrifice of the mind (citta) for the sake of purusa, the only true seer. This purusa is not your or mine, is the pure power of seeing". The seer, the seen, the seing are all one: purusa. This state is called kaivalya = of alones, not in the sense of separation, but simply because there is no other (only purusa, purusa is only).

(...) "Rta is like a wave pattern and satya (truth) like a particle pattern. Both of them are one reality - rta is the flow of time and satya the expansion of space



THE EVERYDAY

ART/LIFE -- Sven G -- Fri 5 Mar 2010 -- 0 reactions
The Everyday
The Everyday p6


book THE EVERYDAY - page 6

"Only 5 minutes of every day are interesting. I want to show the rest."

(Hans-Peter Feldmann, in conversation with Helene Tatay, 2002)



Important news!

Gaseous -- manne -- Thu 4 Mar 2010 -- 0 reactions



imagineering hope - day 1

imagineering hope -- elke van campenhout -- Mon 22 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions

hope me



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ART AS EXPERIENCE

ART/LIFE -- Sven G -- Sun 21 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions
If artistic and esthetic quality is implicit in every normal experience, how shall we explain how and why it so generally fails to become explicit? Why is it that to multitudes art seems to be an importation into experience from a foreign country and the esthetic to be a synonym for something artificial?

- John Dewey, Art as Experience, p12-13


THE CIRCULATION OF HOPE / IMAGINEERING THE NOW

Radical Hope -- Mon 15 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions

HOPE WEEK 2 : 22 - 26 Feb 2010


THE CIRCULATION OF HOPE / IMAGINEERING THE NOW
or Everything you always thought you knew about hope, but are about to redefine!
collaboration between a.pt and Micromarché



In this practice-based workshop radical_hope and aude thensiau explore the mobility of hope within a city.
hope as the now, de-futurized
hope as a  social body, de-individualized
hope as an social affect, de-personalized
hope as invention
hope as auto-poetry
hope as a moment of change
hope as a choreography
hope as movement

how can this hope be communicated throughout the city?
how can hope be an answer to your own question?
how can you reach people you don't know to join in the circulation of hope.
in this 5-day workshop we will develop different strategies to make hope mobile and volatile, make hope travel and return,
set up conversations with unknown participants, start up dialogues with non-present collaborators.Possible strategies,
probably not to be used, but nice as a starting point: recounting, laziness, branding, self-instruction, wild card invitations, object-chain letters, ...
 
working times: 22 - 26 Feb, (monday to friday), 10-18h
last admissions: 20th of february
place: MicroMarché, Steenkoolkaai 9, 1000 Brussels



radical_hope


spontaneous sensorial experiential act

iuliana daniela varodi -- Sun 14 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions




Symposium @ Artefact

Sven G -- Wed 10 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions
Artefact presents

The memory of the artist

Symposium on living artist's archives in network relation

(translated from Dutch:
Het geheugen van de kunstenaar
Symposium over levende kunstenaarsarchieven in netwerkverband
)

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Wednesday February 10th 2010, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven


(abstract translated from Dutch)
The artist's archive today has a hybrid form: digital as well as analog, finished creations as well as drafts, disclosure and financing ... all of which raises questions for artists. At the end of their carreer there is a demand for a place where the archive can be kept alive. Open and dynamic artist's archives provide many opportunities, for artists as well as for museums and research and education centres. Archives are sources for arthistoric or artistic research and are important for the preservation and management of artworks. This symposium looks for good examples of handling artist's archives within a network of institutions and organisations. The recent work around the television oeuvre of Jef Cornelis can attest to the value of an archive for research and education and illustrates the possibilities and difficulties inherent to 'networked' initiatives. Examples from other art sectors also offer inspiration for the development of expertise and good archival practices in the sector of (audio)visual and media art.


Detailed report added shortly.


Jan Fabre's exercises

Sven G -- Mon 8 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions
JanFabreStill

recorded footage of performance exercises session by Jan Fabre
attended by neurobiologist and physiologist

Troubleyn, February 5th 2010




An empire called ART (part I)

on my wall -- iuliana daniela varodi -- Mon 8 Feb 2010 -- 0 reactions

Somewhere in a near future, art became the new religion of this decaying society, after monotheism, capitalism and permaculture all failed, as these unhappily confined people to sets of rules and prescriptions that gave not enough room for a mature expression of individualities. 

Art was the highest form of juxtaposing personal expression with the ever-changing structures, of manipulating time and space (which they needed to do, as these recourses were shrinking day by day) and of decently reacting on each other – its was what they thought when decided to resume to art in this unnamed society. 

And as each political  structure does, art authorities established their own instruments for negotiation, as they subversively  kept democracy as the core illusion of their state, designed according to some particular mind mapping  principles adopted from the highly adorned theories of artificial intelligence. 

The most at hand instruments were people. In order to have them negotiating, they were initially put in different positions, so that they could develop different views on whatever the subject was, so that they had something to negotiate about. In order to have (different) positions, on top of the ever-changing snowflake structures of Reality - which was less important in the mind mapping context - they imagined a pyramid. We must mention that as the art of the Pyramids, next to the art of war were the dearest heritage left behind by the previous generation. On all this, the simplified principles of “emotional intelligence” (or - for dummies, as it was called in the preceding era) were applied. The psychoanalytical techniques were finally swept, or at least this is what the massa was told. The three top layers of the pyramids used to secretly meet for mutually exchanging psychoanalytic sessions with each other. As they were highly versatile in this science, they could easily swap roles between therapist and patient, which they did, by tossing a coin the evening before the planned event. 

All was functioning as a “dames blanches” soup, until the heads of the pyramid had the tremendous idea of releasing some of their leadership secrets into the young generation, as a mean to insure the continuity of their knowledge and its progress towards pure wisdom (this was the level at which one didn’t need to apply principles of the pyramid, the art of war nor any of the emotional or artificial intelligence).  

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