WORKSHOP: BODIES OF
COLOUR book
11:00-17:00
Laban Studio at Goldsmiths Campus
Leader: PROF. JOHANNES BIRRINGER, (DAP-Lab) Brunel University of West
London with Michele Danjoux
For
this workshop, Birringer suggests a reflection on the work of Brazilian
artist Hélio Oiticica (shown at Tate Modern, June-September
2007): "Oiticica moved from abstraction and 2D work to increasingly 3D
works, sculptures, then boxes, installations, architectural models and
social projects. His work of the 60s and 70s culminates in the
Penetraveis and Perangolés series. In the
late 70s, just prior to his premature death while in exile in New York,
he created several installations called 'Quasi-Cinema' (audio visual
installations for the audience-participants, based on his utopian and
metaphysical principles of Vivencia and the Supra-Sensorial).
"The
Perangolés have always attracted my attention, as they are 'wearables'
(inhabitable fabrics, colours-in-action). I see them as extraordinary
forerunners of our contemporary experiments with wearables and
close-to-the-skin interfaces."
For
INTIMACY we will invite the participants to explore the contemporary
(technologically augmented and supported) wearable sensorial interface
for performance, by playing with fabrics and cameras, self-portraits
and animations of others, wearing cloth and special garments with
sensors, touching upon the erotics of materials and
feedbacks, interacting in a tactile sensorial manner within
the mediated environment (images, sounds, colours).
WORKSHOP:
INTIMATE DETAILS ONLY book
10:00-18:00
Laban Studio at Goldsmiths Campus
Leader: KIRA O'REILLY
Dispersed,
elaborated and localised intimacies cluster and move between the
complex webs of you and I.
Drag lines and spindles of utterances.
Radical tangos.
Scalpels teasing tissue apart.
Peculiar
occurrences of confidence and trust, wonderment and astonishment
manifest, unannounced from our reassembling and disassembling of events
that unfold, processes that cascade in our designed moments of actions,
performances, makings and unmakings.
Sometimes
it means that someone thinks I love them. Or that they have love me. It
gets all mixed up.
Perhaps
we can figure out how to occupy some of the pauses, lapses and moments
within this conflicting and confusing concept of intimacy.
Perhaps
not.
Perhaps we initiate wilful failures and radical dissociations.
Perhaps we will break our hearts in some disastrous dissasemblage.
SATURDAY
8th December
WORKSHOP:
INTIMACY AND RECORDED PRESENCE - book
10:30-14:30 Goldsmiths George Wood Theatre
Leader: KELLI DIPPLE, Tate
This
workshop will explore intimacy and presence within the context of the
recorded image, using this as a basis for form, instruction-based
action and one-to-one performance. The camera is often the interface
between performer, action and technology. It is a key element in the
relationships between kinaesthetic forms and digital outputs. It is an
important starting point and often under estimated. The relationship
between performer and camera operator, whether working towards a
pre-recorded or live output can be a creative and conversational
partnership. With attention and development it can be a complex
dialogue involving the intimate exchange of much knowledge.
Participants will explore the power of cinematography in the creation
of intimacy and presence. Sound will also be discussed as an integral
element.
WORKSHOP:
AVATAR PASTE AND CODE SOUP IN FIRST AND SECOND LIFE
14:00-18:00 www.secondlife.com - FREE book via email
to drp01mc (at) gold.ac.uk
Leaders: ASS. PROF. SANDY BALDWIN, West Virginia University &
ALAN SONDHEIM
This
workshop will take place in the virtual world Second Life, and will be
conducted by Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin, with participation by
other artists and performers in Second Life.
Participants from the Intimacy conference will be supplied with
location and others details within Second Life. The workshop emerges
from Sondheim and Baldwin's ongoing exploration of analog and digital
bodies, using a range of technologies to remap the solid and obdurate
real of bodies into the dispersions and virtualities of the digital,
and then back again into real physical spaces. The "avatar paste" of
the title means at least three things.
Firstly, the pasting of viewpoints together, the suturing of the
subject into the avatar. Secondly, paste as glue, as half-liquid and
half solid, as a materiality of renewable and
infinite pliability. This is the chora of the avatar, the body matrix
that is less a framework than a smearing of paste. And thirdly, paste
as pasty and dis/comfortable substance, paste as slimy and dripping.
While this abjection is already implicit in paste as glue, the
pastiness of paste involves the projection and dreaming through of the
avatar, the inhabitation of avatar bodies and the emptying of real
bodies into the avatar.
"Avatar paste" comes out in avatar motions and behaviors. Firstly,
these are formed by symbolic orders, presenting surfaces to read in
terms of sexuality, power, emotion, and other projections. At the same
time, the pasty avatar body tends towards collapse and abjection. Work
on the avatar becomes a choreography of exposure and rupture, modeling
and presenting inconceivable and untenable data, within which
tensions and relationships are immediate and intimate. One might
imagine, then, this inconceivable data as a form of organism itself: as
part of a natural world or a world
already given; out of this we might think through new ideas of
landscape, wilderness, hard ecology, the earth itself.
The
workshop will theorize and demonstrate these topics. The first part
discusses theoretical frameworks. Alan Sondheim will introduce the
topic of dismemberment and telepresence in terms of the presence or
appearance of abjection in Second Life avatars. He will connect this to
the epistemology of emptiness vis-a-vis sheave theory and Buddhist
philosophy, and then to the problems of motion and behavior of avatars.
Sandy Baldwin will discuss the topography of limits in Second Life,
both body limits and spatial limits, an connect this to issues of the
hunt and animal display.
He will also discuss the dynamics of performance and audience in Second
Life. The second part of the workshop will show off Sondheim and
Baldwin's approach to re-mapping live bodies into Second Life
performances, including: video and other
examples of motion capture and scanning; intermediate processing of
files (e.g. editing .bvh data or working with Blender); and then the
resulting works, including documents of Second Life performances and
re-mappings back into "first life" spaces with dancers and other live
performers. The final part of the workshop will include avatar
performance by Sondheim, Baldwin, and other participants in Second Life.