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"publication as a form of performance and performance as a form of publication"Chloe Chignell
Chloe Chignell (AU) is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Chloe takes the body as the central problem, question and location of her research. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up.
Since 2019 Chloe co-runs rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens.
the durability of the object performer-ship and audience-shipa performance demands shared time and shared space shadow text at DanceHouseAmina SzecsödyJOKES - the bookthe lead artist being the hosttranslation"dance is not a language, but it is a form""it felt uninteresting to try to translate text to dance, i felt like it would just enslave the dance into a form of meaning production. dance has other skills"working with dance vs working with choreography"they are real books but they are also scenography"the difference in permanencewaterworld movie paper scenethe iconography of ballroom dancethe name - street danceanachronistic - meaningthe use of the term experimentalchoreographic frameworksto dance with or without an internalised choreographers eyelive decisions on stage"the choreography is producing syntax"
links:
Chloe Chignell homepageinstagramworkspace BrusselsfacebookRile bookshop and project space
Jeff Hsieh – 謝杰樺
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 • Duration 57:44
"you have to know yourself really well (because everything else is changing faster than it ever has)"Jeff Hsieh (謝杰樺)
Jeff Hsieh (謝杰樺) is the current artistic director of Anarchy Dance Theatre. His works feature a strong element of interactive dance performance and leverage technology to expand the field of choreography. We cover;
how technology has changed our lives the bodymachine interventions new physical experiencethe eternal straight linesurgery at a distancedigital worldsAI in artnew media arts / old media artsskills used to have a long tail of valueknowing what you're doingmid-journey
links:
https://anarchydancetheatre.com/youtubefacebookinstagramderida dance
Lee Ming-Chieh – 李明潔
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 • Duration 59:54
"No matter which mediums I use, if I can keep finding something I feel curious about then I will keep going for choreography."Lee Ming-Chieh
Ming-chieh Lee is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan often focusing on the dynamic of body, object and other things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity shaped between body and specific space. We cover;
Dancing in public spacesInaccuracies becoming a new style for choreographyFruitful limitationsMaking experiments in many different fieldsThe specificity of environment Using choreography to explore your bodyStudy at TNUACollaborating with drama and musical directorsWorking across mediumsMixed reality choreographyHow to decide what is worth watchingChoreographing timeThe work referenced at 49:20
links:
Taipei National University of the Artsartist website FacebookInstagramCLAB Physical Futures Digital ExchangeYouTube
Wu Dar-kuen – 吳達坤
Thursday, December 8, 2022 • Duration 01:04:36
M@ and Wu Dar-kuen in the sound recording studio at C-LAB 2022
"Artists are like magicians"Wu Dar-kuen
Wu Dar-kuen is an artist and Independent curator, now the Director of Contemporary Art and Science Tech Platform of Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab（C-LAB）. He was the director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village ,and the founding chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance,TASA, curator of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and the director of VT Artsalon. He is also a creative artist in addition to being a curator.
He has long been focusing on the generation and evolution of contemporary art and Asian cultures. He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also contemplates the ways to embody the philosophy of “art without borders” by treating art as a means under the impact of globalization and neoliberalism.
In his long and prolific career as an artist, he served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions such as NIFCA (Finland) in 2002, Location One (New York) in 2005, ISCP (New York) in 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo) in 2008, and Open Space Bae (Busan, South Korea) in 2009. He was the winner of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grants and Yageo Tech-Art Award in 2004. His works are collected by many prestigious museums and foundations. He was also the curator of over one hundred exhibitions, among which the two Kuandu Biennials Artist in Wonderland (2012) and Recognition System (2014), Republic without People (2011) which was hosted by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the winner of the Jury’s Special Award of the 10th Tai-Shin Arts Awards, as well as Asia Anarchy Alliance (2014) held at Tokyo Wonder Site and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts were his curatorial tours de force. Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2015),and Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo),In the Name of Plants:The Past and Future of an Old Factory at OCT-LOFT Shenzhen（2017）,Imagining Memorial at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (2017).Wu Dar-Kuen is an artist and Independent curator ,now is the Director of Contemporary Art and Science Tech Platform of Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab（C-LAB）. He was the director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village ,and the founding chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance,TASA, curator of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and the director of VT Artsalon. He is also a creative artist in addition to being a curator. He has long been focusing on the generation and evolution of contemporary art and Asian cultures. He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also contemplates the ways to embody the philosophy of “art without borders” by treating art as a means under the impact of globalization and neoliberalism. In his long and prolific career as an artist, he served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions such as NIFCA (Finland) in 2002, Location One (New York) in 2005, ISCP (New York) in 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo) in 2008, and Open Space Bae (Busan, South Korea) in 2009. He was the winner of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grants and Yageo Tech-Art Award in 2004. His works are collected by many prestigious museums and foundations. He was also the curator of over one hundred exhibitions, among which the two Kuandu Biennials Artist in Wonderland (2012) and Recognition System (2014), Republic without People (2011) which was hosted by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the winner of the Jury’s Special Award of the 10th Tai-Shin Arts Awards, as well as Asia Anarchy Alliance (2014) held at Tokyo Wonder Site and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts were his curatorial tours de force. Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2015),and Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo),In the Name of Plants:The Past and Future of an Old Factory at OC...
Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈
Monday, November 21, 2022 • Duration 01:06:31
"How can I do?"Hsiao Tzu Tien - 田孝慈
Hsiao Tzu Tien - 田孝慈 - is a choreographer, dancer and performer Born in 1984 in Tainan, Taiwan, focusing her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. We discuss;
Growing up in TainanHow to choreographCollaborating with technologyMaking the invisible, visibleDancing as a verb - something to do.What is the first dance step?Impulse/inspiration/intuition/desire“How do we tune the intuition?” And make it relevant?Pre-conditionsDancing for each other vs the audienceThinking and feelingMaking it safe to ask dancers to share themselves during collaborationBuilding a belief in the pieceDigital as choreographic contextCollaborating with virtual currency via kinetic light sculptureMisusing motion-captureFighting against the digital as a way to develop choreographyThe things that we know that we don’t even know that we know.
links:
http://www.projectzerotw.com/田孝慈/instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hsiaotzu.tien/https://www.facebook.com/hsiaotzu.tien
Yuiko Masukawa
Friday, April 1, 2022 • Duration 46:51
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRpWENrgZFk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
"I couldn't express myself in English (i'm actually a very funny person!)... so I used my dancing"Yuiko Masukawa
Yuiko Masukawa is a Japanese choreographer and dancer based in Melbourne, Australia, working with the classical form in contemporary contexts, we cover;
After Party - https://www.yuikomasukawa.me/after-partystudy in Japan and Canada and Australiaworking at Kinosaki International Arts Center Indian and Ballet similaritiesBallet as "French Classical" danceMinidiscsClassical ballet in Japan being another culture2nd century Indian classical dancehow to know between contemporary and classical choreographymaking workrunning a youth dance programcollaborating with technologies
links:
instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yuimasukawa/collaborations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfDpbUXK34&t=99sworking at national theatre - https://nationaltheatre.org.au/ballet/staff/invite arts - https://hi-in.facebook.com/insitearts/posts/6986803038027929
Alisdair Macindoe
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 • Duration 01:41:27
"I'd find myself unable to not respond"Alisdair Macindoe
Alisdair Macindoe is an independent multidisciplinary choreographer living on Woi Wurrung country (Melbourne, Australia). With an interest in extending the boundaries of choreographic practice, Alisdair’s work spans dance, sound, electronics, coding and text. Recent works have seen him explore automated dance and Artificial Intelligence; new technology for music expression; trans-humanism; waste and climate change and identity in the age of narcissism. We cover..
making choreography from wordsAI vs algorithmdata stackscollaborating with non-human entitiesdigitalmidi and music sound designwombat radio as ongoing effortsocial media as a faux internetcontext free grammardecision makingbody intelligencethe gift of working for othersfeeling like you're dancingthe payoff is in the doing
links:
http://alisdairmacindoe.comOpen AIhttps://alisdairmacindoe.com/redhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3https://home.unicode.orgASCIIhttps://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/https://www.thoughtco.com/malaphor-word-play-1691298
Body Space Habit – Elia Bosshard and Ira Ferris
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 • Duration 01:44:46
A discussion with Ira Ferris and Elia Bosshard about their project Space Body Habit.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcUVUphlvS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
"I purge myself of them (thoughts) by giving them to you and now I'm free to think other things."Ira Ferris
Space Body Habit bookpublic spacelineageworking at front yardmaking a record of discussions in the form of a book vs making a bookarchiveSpace Body Habit bookTikTok performanceskin as a boundary
links:
Artemis ProjectsSympoiesis Radio show - instagram Sympoiesis Radio show eastside radio 897fmhttps://www.eliabosshard.com/https://www.adsrzine.com/
Emily Flannery
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 • Duration 01:02:12
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBnE0VWAHWD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
"I have a problem with ...we need everything so instantly, that we're willing to compromise things that are so sacred."Emily Flannery
Emily Flannery is a proud Wiradjuri woman from Forbes in the Central West of NSW. As an emerging Indigenous dancer and choreographer Emily hopes to share her culture and her spirit through movement. We also cover;
her upcoming Sydney Opera House show - Bulnuruwanha which explores the Wiradjuri Dreaming stories of the Magpie, Willy-WagTail, Kookaburra, Cockatoo and Platypus through contemporary Indigenous dance.Lost All Sorts collectiveWorking with siblingsTokenismForbesExpectations of what indigenous should look likeEverything happening all at onceLucy Guerin Inc internshipTraining under the Craig Barytaking feedback from industry experts who are not cultural knowledge holderswanting to make ensemble workgood intentions without self-educationAboriginal culture is still alive"You can't support BLM and then blow up our sacred sites" - Emily Flannery
links:
march dance - https://www.marchdance.com/emily-flannerydirty feet - https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/emily-flannerydance informer - https://dancemagazine.com.au/2021/05/bangarra-appoints-new-company-dancer-emily-flannery/Bangarra - NAISDA - https://naisda.com.au/2020/12/17/naisda-graduate-emily-flannery-selected-as-lgis-first-nations-intern-for-2021/PACT - http://www.pact.net.au/lost-all-sorts-collective#:~:text=Lost%20All%20Sorts%20is%20a,virtues%20as%20artists%20and%20friends.facebook - https://www.facebook.com/emily.flannery.54Forbes Advocate - https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/7227346/years-of-work-pay-off-with-busy-year-of-dance-ahead-for-emily/Coast Community News - https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2021/01/internship-for-naisda-graduate/NORPA - https://norpa.org.au/indigenous-makers-studio/Daniel Riley as new Artistic Director of ADT - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-06/first-indigenous-artistic-director-appointed-to-dance-company/100194208
Elle Evangelista
Monday, August 23, 2021 • Duration 01:16:19
https://www.instagram.com/p/CP7gR8kDAGz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
"This is a massive interrogation of concept."Elle Evangelista
Elle Evangelista loves dancing. She is Filipino & Burmese, was raised on Whadjuk/Perth and currently lives on Gadigal/Sydney. Elle has a Bachelor of Arts in English from UWA and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from WAAPA. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement she enrolled in a post graduate Law course to obtain a Juris Doctor.
Thirty30 - https://elleevangelista.com/about30thirtyThirty31 - Set to premier in October 2021Come Knit The Sun Down - https://supercelldancefestival.com/elle-evangelistaThe GIF of Dance - http://choreography.mattcornell.com/projects/the-gif-of-dance/Covid#19 Lockdowns/show cancellationmaking attempts"Trying again isn't starting again" - Matt CornellBring brave enough to deeply invest in someone/somethingThings you want to learn aboutFailing as integralBringing snacks to share (to every rehearsal)Expectations"I always expect people are going to be as invested as I am" - Elle Evangelista
links:
March Dance - https://www.marchdance.com/elle-evangelistainsatiable - song matt mentions instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elleevangelistaBelvoir Street Theatre choreographic commission - https://belvoir.com.au/elle-evangelista/DirtyFeet - https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/elle-evangelistaWriting for Dance Informer - https://dancemagazine.com.au/tag/elle-evangelista/DAIR residency - https://www.facebook.com/ausdancensw/photos/a.1593516414266451/2545730512378365/The King and I - the musical - https://aussietheatre.com.au/features/20-questions/getting-know-elle-evangalistaThirty30 - https://au.royalacademyofdance.org/independent-artist-elle-evangelista-takes-up-residence-in-our-darlinghurst-studio/Sydney Arts Guide - https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/tag/elle-evangelista/Dance Life - https://www.dancelife.com.au/tag/elle-evangelista/
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