Creative Spaces: Extended Call for Participants

October 2010.


Performing Idea Creative Spaces are three practical workshops, led by the internationally renowned artists Janine Antoni, Ong Keng Sen and Julie Tolentino, taking place at Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Studios, London

We are delighted to announce that the Creative Space correspondents are Ron Athey, Matthew Goulish and Tellervo Kalleinin.

Due to the Bank Holiday and extensive interest in Creative Spaces the deadline for applications has been extended to Monday 6th September 2010 at 5pm.

Creative Spaces will explore the potentials of dialogue and creative collaboration within the context of Performing Idea, the first year of Performance Matters, a three-year creative research project rethinking why performance matters through the matter of performance. Performance Matters is a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Roehampton University, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.


Performing Idea is a series of events exploring the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing, through a public programme of workshops, presentations, screenings and a symposium from 2nd to 9th October 2010.

Full details of the Performing Idea programme can be found at www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk

The three practical workshops has space for 15 participants and includes unlimited access to the five-day Performing Idea international symposium.

Janine Antoni with Matthew Goulish will run a workshop on movement, process, attention and inner life
2nd – 6th October
£120 (including access to five-day symposium)

Ong Keng Sen with Tallervo Kalleinin will run a workshop on documentary performance, narrative, migration and issues of cultural difference, 2nd – 4th October
£100 (including access to five-day symposium)


Julie Tolentino with Ron Athey will run a workshop on the body, its hidden texts, movements, and its surrounding spaces, 2nd – 6th October
£120 (including access to five-day symposium)

 

Full details of Creative Spaces:

 

Janine Antoni
with Matthew Goulish as correspondent
2nd-6th October

Times: 2nd-4th October 10am to 6pm & 5th-6th October 10am to 2pm
Toynbee Studios, London
£120 (including unlimited access to the Performing Idea five-day symposium)



“For this workshop our bodies will be our primary tools of expression. We will dance, move and use our bodies in unconventional ways. I believe that knowing oneself intimately opens up the possibility of using one’s strengths and weakness in the service of art. Be prepared for an inner investigation. I would like us to learn from each other without hierarchy, therefore the group dynamic is a key component of the workshop. We will not produce anything but rather focus on exploration and experience with an eye towards sharpening our awareness and communication skills. The investigations will enrich our artistic and thoughtful practices as we engage with sources and materials across different artistic forms” – Janine Antoni.

This workshop is designed for artists and researchers working in and on performance and the visual arts with interests in embodiment, creative process and the dynamics of perception.

Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas in 1964. Her work blurs the distinction between performance and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body. Antoni has had major exhibitions of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe, inIVA, London, England and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. The recipient of several prestigious awards including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999, the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Artist Award and nominee for Artes Mundi, the Wales International Visual Art Prize in 2004. Janine Antoni currently lives in New York.


Ong Keng Sen
with Tallervo Kalleinin as correspondent
2nd -4th October

Times: 2nd-4th October 10am to 6pm
Whitechapel Gallery, London
£100 (including unlimited access to the Performing Idea five-day symposium)



Ong Keng Sen will lead a workshop on documentary performance evoked by Gertrude Stein’s Wars I Have Seen. Keng Sen is interested in charting the cultural diversity of the UK and mainland Europe through memories, histories and narratives of migration. The workshop will explore the experiences of those who left their homelands to avoid wars or out of a necessity to find new lives – experiences that perhaps are only interrogated several generations later.

This workshop is conceived for artists and researchers working on or in performance with an interest in theatre aesthetics, narrative, memory and cross cultural exchange.

Ong Keng Sen has been the Artistic Director of TheatreWorks, Singapore for fifteen years. He is an active contributor to the evolution of an Asian identity and aesthetic for contemporary performance in the 21st century. In 1994, Keng Sen conceptualised The Flying Circus Project, a laboratory project bringing together traditional and contemporary Asian artists from the fields of theatre, music, dance, video, visual arts and ritual who work together to explore the concepts of reinvention, cultural negotiation and the politics of interculturalism. In 1999 he initiated The Arts Network Asia (ANA) for Asian artists to dialogue and engage with each other, and in 2002 he embarked on an exchange project in Laos for local youths, elder artists and international Asian artists called the Continuum Asia Project (CAP). Keng Sen has directed numerous theatre productions for prestigious festivals and theatres throughout the world. He was curator and co-artistic director of In Transit, an annual festival in Berlin 2002/03. He also curated the Politics of Fun exhibition at the House of World Cultures, Berlin (2005). He was recently awarded the Fukuoka Asian Art and Culture Prize 2010.
www.theatreworks.org.sg
www.72-13.com
www.artsnetworkasia.or


Julie Tolentino
with Ron Athey as correspondent
2nd-6th October

Times: 2nd-4th October 10am to 6pm & 5th-6th October 10am to 2pm
Toynbee Studios, London
£120 (including unlimited access to the Performing Idea five-day symposium)



Julie Tolentino’s workshop will offer a led daily warm-up and will proceed through writing challenges alongside exploratory score and movement-making processes. Working with, and breaking free from, our ‘signature’, we will refine our practice and solomaking using the body, its hidden texts and surrounding spaces as vital elements. The sharing and thoughtful interrogation of our own practices will be a key element.

The workshop is conceived for those artists and researchers working in or on performance who have an interest in duration and the exploration of physical limits.

Julie Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and audio soundscapes. Recent and current works include For You, A True Story About Two People, Cry Of Love, and The Sky Remains The Same. Tolentino’s work has been presented throughout the US and Europe and at Fierce Festival, Greenroom, Tramway, and SPILL Festival in the UK. She has performed with David Rousseve/REALITY Dance Theater, Ron Athey, Ibrahim Quarishi, Curious and others. She has made numerous interdisciplinary collaborations with many artists. She was original founder and creator of the NY Clit Club (1990). Julie has received numerous awards including a Franklin Furnace Performance grant, an Artsadmin Bursary, a Field Space grant, and a residency at Pact-Zollverein in Essen. She is a recipient of a year CHIME 2010 Grant with Doran George and the 2010-11 Art Matters Grant. She is currently co-director, with Ron Athey of PRAXIS MOHAVE BOOTCAMP FOR PERFORMANCE ARTISTS. They also co-curate a performance series entitled RESONATE/OBLITERATE, inviting artists such as Franko B and Juliana Snapper. She divides her time between New York City, Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California.

Further information regarding Tolentino’s work can be found here:
http://web.me.com/thejulietolentino/TOLENTINOPROJECTS/Home.html


Application Details

Participation in the Creative Spaces series is by written application only.

Participants must commit to the workshop for its entire duration. It is not possible to attend more than one workshop. Fees for the workshops include unlimited access to the Performing Idea International Symposium (5th-9th October 3pm-7.30pm) and all participants are encouraged to attend the five days of the symposium.

To apply for participation in one of the three Creative Spaces, please email the following:

1. The specific workshop you would like to participate in.
2. Your reasons for wishing to take part in this workshop and its relation to your practice or research (max 250 words)
3. A Biography or CV.
4. Contact details (email and phone).
5. A Weblink, or selective support material (please do not overload us!)

Applications must be sent to workshops@thisisperformancematters.co.uk by 5pm on Monday 6th September 2010.

Successful applicants will be notified in the week beginning 13th September 2010.

Please note that all workshop and performance spaces will be accessible. However, participants should identify access requirements when making their application to ensure that all requirements can be adequately met.

The full Performing Idea programme and booking details will be announced next week at www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk

 

Image Credits (top to bottom of page)

Janine Antoni, Loving care, 1993. Performance with Loving Care hair dye Natural Black dimensions variable. Photo: Prudence Cumming Associates at Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1993.

Ong Keng Sen Image Credit: Vivien and The Shadows (2008) at Carolina Performing Arts, a Theatreworks production conceived and directed by Ong Keng Sen. Copyright Theatreworks, Singapore.

Julie Tolentino Image credit: Julie Tolentino, Cry of Love, June 2009, Berlin. Photo: Fransiska Pierwoss.