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performance
Ariane Loze
Sat 20 Jun 2009 -- 0 replies


now in venice
sara manente
Tue 9 Jun 2009 -- 0 replies


showing at Transeuropa Festival ...
Ariane Loze
Wed 13 May 2009 -- 0 replies


Questions about Antwerp
Julie Pfleiderer
Fri 17 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


troubletroup is looking for
Manon Avermaete
Fri 17 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


the loss of the loss
maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow
Wed 8 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


istanbul encounters
maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow
Mon 6 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


Pocket Life Pro 0.1 - Suat ...
Ariane Loze
Fri 3 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


Pocket Life Pro 0.1 - Suat ...
Ariane Loze
Wed 1 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


DORA GARCIA TRACES
traces -- Julie Pfleiderer
Tue 10 Mar 2009 -- 0 replies


guided tour around nothing
maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow
Sat 28 Feb 2009 -- 0 replies


the workshop of last week: dora ...
sara manente
Tue 24 Feb 2009 -- 0 replies


rotterdam film festival
video story-telling -- Manon Avermaete
Thu 29 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies


Frames of References
modeling the program -- Michel Yang
Fri 23 Jan 2009 -- 1 reply


breathing space of manon & ...
modeling the program -- Julie Pfleiderer
Mon 19 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies


networking
modeling the program -- Constanze Schellow
Mon 12 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies


yellow sticky note animation
modeling the program -- elke van campenhout
Mon 12 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies


merry christmas and happy new y ...
sara manente
Sun 28 Dec 2008 -- 0 replies


reenactment of
sara manente
Mon 15 Dec 2008 -- 0 replies


what is to be tested by what?
maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow
Sun 30 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


Séance d'écoute & ...
kim lien Desault
Sat 29 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


about name etc...
kim lien Desault
Fri 28 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


showing 21.11.08
MacroPhotography -- Ariane Loze
Wed 19 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


francis alys' interview
sara manente
Wed 12 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


video solo 1x
kim lien Desault
Tue 11 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


Psyché by Adel Abidin
kim lien Desault
Mon 10 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


emergency room day 3
kim lien Desault
Sun 9 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


EditS.
Klaas Devos
Sat 1 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


Gewoon Evolutie
Klaas Devos
Sat 1 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies


showing 24.11.08
MacroPhotography -- Ariane Loze
Fri 24 Oct 2008 -- 0 replies


solo1x
kim lien Desault
Thu 16 Oct 2008 -- 0 replies


Performances at Nam June Paik A ...
sungmin
Mon 13 Oct 2008 -- 4 replies


emergencies room
kim lien Desault
Fri 10 Oct 2008 -- 0 replies


the princess and the pea/Sleep-Inn
Peace -- kim lien Desault
Mon 6 Oct 2008 -- 0 replies


don't get me wrong~ <MAS TH ...
INTERACTIVE BURKA -- sungmin
Mon 29 Sep 2008 -- 3 replies


looking for volunteers: CHANGE ...
Peace -- sara manente
Tue 23 Sep 2008 -- 0 replies


peace and levinas
Peace -- elke van campenhout
Fri 19 Sep 2008 -- 0 replies


A.B.C. Anti-Boredom Cocoons in ...
INTERACTIVE BURKA -- Ariane Loze
Fri 19 Sep 2008 -- 0 replies


DANCING WITH A BLUE TOOTH BURKA
INTERACTIVE BURKA -- Gable Roelofsen
Thu 18 Sep 2008 -- 1 reply


dancing with a blue tooth burka
Gable Roelofsen
Thu 18 Sep 2008 -- 0 replies


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info a apass.be
http://www.apass.be


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.

deadline next call for projects:
12th of June 2009






CURRENTLYCURRENTLYCURRENTLYCURRENTLYCURRENTLYCURRENTLYCUURENTLY:

12/5 - 21/5


a.pt is working at the 'In Transit'-festival in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, curated by André Lepecki. We assist at the festival performances, as well as researching some basic texts on post-colonial performance theory, and proposing practices and discussions deriving from
 the texts and the programme.

www.hkw.de



performance

Ariane Loze -- Sat 20 Jun 2009 -- 0 replies




now in venice

sara manente -- Tue 9 Jun 2009 -- 0 replies
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/
http://www.palazzograssi.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=151&lang=en
http://www.fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org/us/activities/show/56
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist/cmagazine.html


sara manente


showing at Transeuropa Festival Where there is beauy there is a picture

Ariane Loze -- Wed 13 May 2009 -- 0 replies



Questions about Antwerp

Julie Pfleiderer -- Fri 17 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies
Questions about Antwerp

• Could you describe Antwerp in one word or one sentence?
• Which emotional state and colour would you put on Antwerp?
• What is typical Antwerp?
( Antwerp hands, many pharmacies, wigs, small,… can be anything)
• Could you tell a story from your life or one you heard which happened in Antwerp? (it is the story you think about when you are in Antwerp)
• Why are you in Antwerp?
• Where you born here?
• What is your profession?
• What is your favorite place in Antwerp?
• What is the center of Antwerp for you?
• Where do you go in Antwerp when you want to be alone?
• Which building reflects Antwerp for you?
• Why would you leave/stay in Antwerp?
• What would you change in Antwerp?
• Could you give us one pathway in Antwerp?
(beginning and end point and which streets you frequent the most so that we can draw your pathway on maps)
• Can you tell us why Antwerp is Antwerp?
• If we would ask you to tell us a story like a city legend would you be able to tell one?
• Referring to the last question, are you able to tell us a contemporary legend, one story that happened here recently in Antwerp which could be the next city legend? It could even be a childhoodmemory.
• If you are travelling or not in Antwerp what do you miss the most?
(if you are not from Antwerp what would then be the thing you would miss the most out of Antwerp)?
• Is there a typical Antwerp person? If yes could you describe him/her?
• If you would have to buy a wig in Antwerp, where would you go? (Do you have a wig or several?)
• Did you ever do anything forbidden/ against the law in Antwerp?
• Could you make a photo that represents Antwerp for you?




julie pfleiderer


troubletroup is looking for

Manon Avermaete -- Fri 17 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies
Does anyone have maps of antwerp they don't use anymore or double? we are looking for more then one map for our research. If you can miss one that would be great. We could pick it up somewhere in Antwerp.
Thanks already


the loss of the loss

maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow -- Wed 8 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies

“Here it seems that what is called “the referent” depends essentially on those catachrestic acts of speech that either fail to refer or refer in the wrong way. It is in this sense that political signifiers that fail to describe, fail to refer, indicate less the “loss” of the object – a position that nevertheless secures the referent even if as a lost referent – than the loss of the loss, to rework that Hegelian formulation. If referentiality is itself the effect of a policing of the linguistic constraints on proper usage, then the possibility of referentiality is contested by the catachrestic use of speech that insists on using proper names improperly, that expands or defiles the very domain of the proper.”

 
Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter


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istanbul encounters

maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow -- Mon 6 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies
dears,
if you are interested in dance development in turkey, what techniques have to do with choice-making, how to dance with a fridge, a traditional ottoman dance where men resemble women or the practice of a feminist folk dancer in istanbul - the first two of my istanbul encounters are online:

mustafa kaplan (choreographer) and gurur ertem (curator)
berna kurt (feminist activist, folk dancer, historian)


the meeting with visual artist evrim kavcar which will develop into a collaboration will follow soon.




constanze schellow


Pocket Life Pro 0.1 - Suat Ögüt & Ariane Loze

Ariane Loze -- Fri 3 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies






Pocket Life Pro 0.1 - Suat Ögüt & Ariane Loze

Ariane Loze -- Wed 1 Apr 2009 -- 0 replies


2nd April 2009
6.30 am
@Kadiköy
Istanbul

Suat Ögüt & Ariane Loze


DORA GARCIA TRACES

traces -- Julie Pfleiderer -- Tue 10 Mar 2009 -- 0 replies
1. GRACIELA CARNEVALE







2. LENNY BRUCE


3. DAN GRAHAM




julie pfleiderer


guided tour around nothing

maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow -- Sat 28 Feb 2009 -- 0 replies
from the text of Dora Garcia's performance "a guided tour around nothing":

"The artist without works is not a tragic figure. He doesn’t refuse to produce because he’s afraid to fail, because he is afraid the work will not live up to his own ambitions. Nor does he refuse to produce because he is afraid that he will not be saved from anonymity and oblivion, or simply from misunderstanding.  The source of his refusal is not fear, but the will to create another possibility: the possibility of not being here, not wanting this, not making something … and yet, against all odds, the work is there. It is there in all its beauty, the beauty of not done.
Not being here… Time to go to the next stop. Please follow me."



constanze schellow


the workshop of last week: dora garcia

sara manente -- Tue 24 Feb 2009 -- 0 replies
workshop 16-20/02

http://doragarcia.net/

and an interesting text by jeff wall
depiction, object, event
hermes lectures 2006

http://www.hermeslezing.nl/hermeslezing2006_eng.pdf




sara manente


rotterdam film festival

video story-telling -- Manon Avermaete -- Thu 29 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies
this week there is the international film festival in rotterdam:

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/nl.aspx


Frames of References

modeling the program -- Michel Yang -- Fri 23 Jan 2009 -- 1 reply
...a model/maquette as a frame of reference...




And don't forget Einstein...


(click to see more maquette brainstorm)


APT participant


breathing space of manon & julie model 1

modeling the program -- Julie Pfleiderer -- Mon 19 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies

APT is
a system with flexible moduls

it can open doors & close them
it can make you struggle - alone and together with the other participants
it can eat your energy or all together we can produce energy

out of the ideas of everyone - it can change it`s face!

APT needs the energy of all the participants to BREATHE.

it is a modular space

it is a sensible space reacting on the movements & ideas from the participants!





julie pfleiderer


networking

modeling the program -- Constanze Schellow -- Mon 12 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies
on spiders as networkers, see the following links:





From Wikipedia on spider webs:

There are a few types of spider web found in the wild; and many spiders are classified by the webs they weave. Different types of spider webs include:

  • Spiral orb webs, associated primarily with the family Araneidae as well as Tetragnathidae and Uloboridae
  • Tangle-webs or cobwebs, associated with the family Theridiidae
  • Funnel-webs, with associations divided into primitive and modern
  • Tubular webs which run up the base of trees
  • Sheet webs
  • Dome or tent webs

How spiders make webs:

Spiders have several spinneret glands located at their abdomen which produce the silken thread. Each gland produces a thread for a special purpose. Seven different gland types have currently been identified, although each species of spider will possess only a few of these types, never all seven at once.

Normally a spider has three pairs of spinnerets, but there are spiders with just one pair or as many as four pairs of spinnerets, with each spinneret having its own function.

During the process of making a web the spider will use its own body for measurements, a very practical and ergonomic design feature of any web. This will allow the spider to move quickly around its own web with very few faults.

It will start with the most difficult part of construction, the first thread. The spider effectively uses the wind to carry its initial adhesive thread. With some luck the silk is released from its spinners and carried by the wind to a suitable adherable surface. When it sticks to a surface the spider will carefully walk over the thread and strengthen it with a second thread. This process is repeated until the primary thread is strong enough to support the rest of the netting.

After strengthening the first thread the spider will continue to make a Y shaped netting. The first three radials of the web are now constructed. More radials are added making sure that the distance between each radial is small enough to cross. This means that the number of radials in a web directly depends on the size of the spider plus the size of the web.

After the radials are complete the spider will fortify the center of the web with about five circular threads. Then a spiral of non-sticky, evenly spaced, circular threads are made for the spider to easily move around its own web during construction. The spider then, beginning from the outside in, will methodically create the adhesive spiral threads. It will utilize the initial radiating lines as well as the non-sticky spirals as guide lines. The spaces between each spiral will be directly proportional to the distance from the tip of its back legs to its spinners. This is one way the spider will use its own body as a measuring/spacing device. While the sticky spirals are formed the non-adhesive spirals are removed as there is no need for them anymore.

After the spider has completed its web it will chew off the initial three center spiral threads then sit and wait. If the web is broken without any structural damage during the construction the spider does not make any initial attempts to rectify the problem.

Webs allow a spider to catch prey without having to expend energy by running it down. Thus it is an efficient method of gathering food. However, constructing the web is in itself an energetically costly process due to the large amount of protein required, in the form of silk. In addition, after a time the silk will lose its stickiness and thus become inefficient at capturing prey. It is not uncommon for spiders to eat their own web daily to recoup some of the energy used in spinning. The silk proteins are thus 'recycled'.





constanze schellow


yellow sticky note animation

modeling the program -- elke van campenhout -- Mon 12 Jan 2009 -- 0 replies
to inspire you...

here!


elke


merry christmas and happy new year to you all ;-)

sara manente -- Sun 28 Dec 2008 -- 0 replies


sara manente


reenactment of

sara manente -- Mon 15 Dec 2008 -- 0 replies






sara manente


what is to be tested by what?

maRking difference -- Constanze Schellow -- Sun 30 Nov 2008 -- 0 replies
§125. If a blind man were to ask me “Have you got two hands?” I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don’t know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn’t I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what? (Who decides what stands fast?) And what does it mean to say that such and such stands fast?

Ludwig Wittgenstein: „On Certainty“ ed. G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright 
Translated by Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1969-1975




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