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

next DEADLINE CALL FOR PROJECTS EXTENDED !!!
(for start in September 2012):20th of May 2012

!!a.pass has moved!!
our new address is:
a.pass | a.pt (advanced performance training)
Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten vzw
p/a de Bottelarij
Delaunoystraat 58
1080 Brussel



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

also: check THE PUBLIC WORKSHOPS MAY-JULY 2012



a.pt projects

High Pertformance! Workshop in economyEmergence RoomA Space For WorkingFeedback and CritiqueThe ScoreCollaboration and Collaborative LearningThe Settlement
EYE TRAININGTrying to understand theoryThoughts of every day lifeSCRIPTmeeting a strangerwhat do I do with what I have embodied so far?Letter of intent
CLEANING THE HOUSEThe Definition DenHUNGER ARTISTartificial realititesCultivating A SpotIntuitive MovementTHE ART OF SHARING, THE SHARING OF ART
STUDIO 54 soapThe Singel RoofReadingTHE G PARTYClarity - an explorationfrankestAin with ASELF-SURVEILLANCE

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Day 4 Report

High Pertformance! Workshop in economy -- Lucie Eidenbenz -- Thu 10 May 2012 -- 0 reactions
Precariousness in the Arts
Why are artists poor?
How does neo-liberalism take over the lifestyles and gift economy used and practiced within the arts field.
Example : gentrification.
If all artists would stop working for free, what would that produce?
Which currency is used within the art field?
How do we value art, under which criterias?
We didn t talk about AURA, which I think enters very much in account in terms of valuating Art. Its insertion in a social context as well as in the market is determined by its aura!
This is linked to the strategies of generating Desire.
Indeed, nobody is waiting for your new piece of art - unless you are very famous - you have to create the need and desire for it in the market.

The Square has become a real Institution - and not only - it has become a sort of Panopticon!

A DADA - style letter by Elise and Nicolas :









































Card reading by Elise



















Olafur Eliasson


Day 3 - Report

High Pertformance! Workshop in economy -- Lucie Eidenbenz -- Wed 9 May 2012 -- 0 reactions
Notes towards a critique of Money by Jorgos Papadopoulos

we talked about
Lacan and the receeding object
The unlimited desire. We don't desire an object, we desire desire. Desire is not something that we get rid of. We are in a constant state of desiring.
Process of Subjectivation through language and insertion in social interaction.
Search for Full Enjoyment which can never be fullfilled.
Buddhism? works on the suppression of desires ( by observing them).
....
Zizek : cut out the roots of Human into Nature. Are humans part of nature?

3hours research on GROWTH
challenge yourself, be better, be more happy, have a better life, increase our value as individul in society = capitalist values addressing growth as a goal.






The Economy of Enjoyment

High Pertformance! Workshop in economy -- Lucie Eidenbenz -- Wed 9 May 2012 -- 0 reactions




DAY 2 Report

High Pertformance! Workshop in economy -- Lucie Eidenbenz -- Tue 8 May 2012 -- 0 reactions
We talked about 
MONEY
BANK
DEBT
The History of money : how did the monetary system appear and how money is created.
The role of the Central Bank, creator of money, distributing it to commercial banks, making profits on loans and interests.
The system of loan and debt. The virtuality of money at the base of profit-making.
How does inflation work; the creation of debt, the risks that banks can take since they are relying on insurances which are themselves insured.
How does this system redistribute debt to States.
How does the rating of interests and the deficit increase debt in a vicious circle.

We worked on general economics and economics of the body simultaneously by massaging each other while listening to the History of money.

We experimented a system of exchange and the creation of institutions within the space of the Square. Sharing the same space and having to negotiate with each other s desires and using each other for producing and maximizing profit.



Day 1 Report

High Pertformance! Workshop in economy -- Lucie Eidenbenz -- Tue 8 May 2012 -- 0 reactions
Starting a glossary on Economics
Working on THE SQUARE : a delimited area in the workshop space, where we can experiment and model thoughts around interactions related with art and economy.
It is supervised by a camera which films the situation from above. It looks like a surveillance system ;) but it is not only that.
Jorgos Papadopoulos, Greek Economist, is intervening to clarify notions and concepts.
We spent time defining what means UTILITY and the notion of enjoyment linked to it.
The notion of Apparatus was introduced through a text by Lepecki.

We also mentioned different existing types of economies :
general economy
gift economy
economy of the body
blood economy
etc.
and how they work respectively.
In the arts field, can we talk about a gift economy?









HIGHER PERFORMANCE

Lucie Eidenbenz -- Tue 8 May 2012 -- 1 reaction
HIGHER PERFORMANCE

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