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Archived and collated - update

Work from this project has been collated, archived and recordings edited into a series of DVD's:

The Guernica Lecture 30th April 2009 (2009)

Choreographies Part 1 (2009)

Choreographies Part 2 (2009)

Work in Progress (2009)

Interim Critique (2009)

Final Presentations (2009)

This project is participating in the work at Whitechapel Gallery by Goshka Magua /

Bloomberg Commission - The Nature of the Beast 2009-2010

final work archived

2nd June 2009, ISD studio, University of Hertfordshire

Well done 3rd year ISD students - best of luck for the future. Good to see last year's students too... Lana, Sithul, James..

Performance East projections

Today the third year Interior and Spatial Design students showed their degree work - private view. Level 2 exhibited a projection of random experimental video - from Performance East.

Ade 'til death do us part'

Some footage still awaits editing and organising and.... This is a process in itself......... I have realised the beauty and sheer value (and volume) of recording the process. This whole experience has given me a lot to test, think about and evaluate for the future...

Amanda never ending NARRATIVE

Kerry Poster Firedance

LA entry exit

Elena, spatial choreography inspired by Martha Graham's costumes

Elmira poster water

And then some memories from tutorials, inspiration sourcing, ideas forming............here with Yi .

May 2009

Reflecting on final critique

Sinead

Final presentations have now taken place. See Site-seeing 09...more details there.

A recording of the event took place, this is being used for monitoring process and used also for capturing still images of the footage.

Lee Anna

This is being edited, sorted and organsied into the correct format for this site. More in next few days..

Well done everyone, you ALL performed, took the project to its limits (in a very short time) and that's what matters. Great.

HS

Jenny

radha

Interim Critique Thursday 14th May 2009

This was an intensive session with a strong sense of direction. There were evidence of ideas developing towards new paths - all derived from the initial ideas on site at the end of April. Furthermore, the progress has become more vibrant, energetic and expressive - less careful than at first. Remember that your work need this fuel - it needs to go through a range of experiments before you can start final design visuals and 3D models.

Great to see so much video. This was sophisticated and well proportioned to the ideas presented. There were interesting topics coming through in discussion - human behaviour, perception and questioning of how we use space. There was also a good mix of serious and humorous issues. Very enjoyable session, well done everyone. Please let me know how you feel you have developed and what particular aspects of this slightly abstract project has been positive for you. Of course, also let me know what has been difficult etc.,

Next week you will present the work as a complete set of ideas, concepts, diagrams, CAD, sketches, photographs, still images, video footage, text, poetry, models - linking it to the site - make sure it reflects your idea and process throughout... (P R O C E S S = continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner (www.dictionary.com)). You know about process - but always good to have a reminder......

Nimisha, Domestic Mapping

Sinead, filmstrip

Amanda, sketchbooks

Think of a process timeline - it doesn't necessarily have to be in that order ("I like a film to have a beginning, middle and end - but not necessarily in that order.." Jean-Luc Godard) - you are in charge and will decide what goes where. Have a look at the way some of the artists we discussed (in relation to your projects) do their work - based in galleries or relative spaces (Sophie Calle (mimicking, following), Derek Jarman (film, colour, sea/Dungeness), Pipilotti Rist (performance, audio/visual, site specific), Damien Hirst (Spin Paintings) ..etc.,

Enjoy the process, take risks..

HS

Ahmed, video still - process

Elena/choreography inspired by Martha Graham's costumes

"I acknowledge -

I evoke the memories

I submit to the agony

I salute the power

Pride - that by which mankind lives - not arrogance

not personal pride - or social elevation

That ripeness of experience

when fruits become the seed"

'I salute my love' - from Martha Graham's notebooks

library dance

Project update

11^th May – lecture, discussion, sharing of ideas, tutorials and site-seeing progress update.

Maryam/ISDlev2

Evidence of process is seen through experimental, improvised performance (derived and developed from the initial ideas at the Whitechapel Gallery 30^th April), transferred to film and timelines through photographic ‘stop motion’.

Connections now need to be made between the choreography and the site – as experiments have mainly taken place off site, the performance and then the choreography will start to connect back to the site, from where these ideas initiates. Plan for the next step: starting ideas in one place/site – moving them off site to explore, detach (borrow) and evaluate (allowing complete experimentation in terms of location, ‘actors’, ‘props’ and movement – then being ‘ready’ to re-produce/install the performance, this time as a complete choreography on site.

Ahmed/ISDlev2

CAD drawings to be produced, choreography placed within the space, visually and thorough maquettes, moving image etc. Original ideas; visuals, sketches, photos, film footage to be carefully compiled into a research and development document.

Umit/ISDlev2

Spatial analysis / RP ISD lev2 / Photo: H Saarinen

Progress update

After the site visit on 30th April - where short, improvised performances took place - these initial ideas have been developed into a more structured analytical mapping. For example; the obstacle in the way - a person on the floor in a public space - being an obstacle - how are the passers-by going to react? How does this affect the journey of the occupier (and the obstacle?) through the space? These issues were discussed and put into simple scenarios - choreographies.

After these body-in-space mappings, the next natural stage is to start application of choreography in a range of spaces - to analyse and observe, compare and record. Thereafter, drawing up the circulation, routes and other relevant data from these experiments. These will be developed into a final drawings/visuals and placed on site at the Gallery.

7th May - Presentations of the refined ideas from the 1-2 min performances (at the Gallery visit 30th April) took place. Examples and feedback/lecture.

Experiments are now taking place - these will be developed into drawings, diagrams and spatial context next week.

Lights Whitechapel Gallery / Photo: H Saarinen

Ekta

Helen

Sinead

7th May 2009

...welcome to Performance East - this will follow the progress of a short experimental project linking choreography to space -

I am hoping for this blog to act as a brainstorm for thinking and exploring possibilities -

choreography - performance

investigating space through performance

short improvised links with the site

location - viewer - occupier

creating patterns from choreography

spatial / visual connectors

experimental navigation

Project site: Whitechapel Gallery, London

Dates: April-May 2009