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Dear Friends & Colleagues,
we are pleased to let you know that you can now
*book tickets online* for the Seminars,
Workshops and Symposium that have been scheduled
to take place during the 3-day event: *INTIMACY
Across Visceral and Digital Performance* on our
website
*<http://www.intimateperformance.org>www.intimateperformance.org*
INTIMACY will take place on *Friday 7, Saturday
8, Sunday 9 December 2007* at *Goldsmiths* (New
Cross),* Home London* (Camberwell), *Laban* and*
The Albany* (Deptford).
INTIMACY is co-directed by: *Maria X* [aka Maria
Chatzichristodoulou] & *Rachel Zerihan*
The INTIMACY Board are: Prof. Johannes
Birringer, Prof. Janis Jefferies, Gerald
Lidstone, Prof. Adrian Heathfield, Hazel Gardiner
INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance
is supported by: *AHRC ICT Methods Network;
Goldsmiths, University of London; Knowledge
East; Laban; The Albany and Home London. *
Please note: Knowledge East is offering 2
BURSARIES worth 500 GBP each, for student
workshop participants who will submit a
successful application for an enterprise project
inspired by any of the 4 INTIMACY workshops.
Grab the chance!
PROGRAMME::
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FRIDAY 7 DECEMBER*
10:00-17:00 [Home London]
One-to-One Performances - Programme TBC soon,
check website for regular updates
10:00-14:00 [Graduate School Seminar Rooms]
SEMINAR: THE TIME IT TAKES TO TRUE
Leader: MINE KAYLAN, Goldsmiths/University of Sussex
The seminar will investigate a poetics of live
interaction with particular attention to time as
a significant vector in 'meaningful' exchange.
Within the context of proximal and of telematic
/virtual environments, how does the play of time
work in what we might identify as poetic
exchange, which we yearn for, recognize as
precious, pay good money to experience? What is
'intimacy' within these terms? What can we learn
from cinema makers about structures of time and
visual rhythm in interactions through
telemotion? These are some questions I am
sucking on, still.
Tickets: 7.5 GBP, concessions 4.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacytimetotrue.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacytimetotrue.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
11:00-17:00 [Laban Studio at Goldsmiths Campus]
WORKSHOP: BODIES OF COLOUR
Leader: PROF. JOHANNES BIRRINGER, Brunel University of West London
For this workshop, Prof. Birringer suggests a
reflection on the art of Brazilian artist Hélio
Oiticica (see show at Tate Modern,
June-September 2007): "Oiticia 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. For
INTIMACY I will invite the participants to
explore the contemporary (technologically
augmented and supported) wearable sensorial
interface for performance, by wearing special
garments with sensors, and interacting in the
tactile sensorial manner within the media
environment (images, sounds, colours)."
Tickets: 11.5 GBP, concessions 7.5 GBP
Book Now at:
*<http://intimacybodies.eventbrite.com/*>http://intimacybodies.eventbrite.com/*
LIMITED CAPACITY
10:00-18:00 [Laban Studio at Goldsmiths Campus]
WORKSHOP: INTIMATE DETAILS ONLY
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.
Tickets: 11.5 GBP, concessions 7.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacydetails.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacydetails.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
14:00-18:00
SEMINAR: AT RISK [Goldsmiths: Graduate School Seminar Room]
Leader: TRACEY WARR
Body Art puts an other human body in your lap in
live performance, photographic document or on
screen image. It has often made hard looking for
audiences. It asks what is it to be human and
what is it to be humane. In this workshop we
will examine our own responses, responsibilities
and complicities in relation to a range of
historical and contemporary artists' work,
including Chris Burden, Gina Pane, Bruce
Gilchrist, Marcus Coates, He Yun Chang and Mark
Raidpere. We will consider our responses in
relation to differing modes of proximity - as
viewers of live performances, photographic
documents and on screen images.
We will examine a range of theoretical positions
on the issues of empathy and responsibility. In
the 1930s psychologist Paul Schilder argued for
a shared ontology between bodies, claiming that
'the laws of identification and of communication
between images of the body make one's suffering
and pain everybody's affair'. Does Rosalind
Krauss' contention of an aesthetics of
narcissism which she applied to video in the
1970s apply to the digital now? Kathy O'Dell's
critical work explores the notion of a contract
of complicity between artist and audience. For
Nelly Richard the body is 'the meeting place
between the individual and the collective the
boundary between biology and society, between
drives and discourses'. Philosopher Elaine
Scarry has demonstrated how the body has the
status of being our most definite material
reference point and is therefore used to give
substance to ideologies or to take it away. The
body has been the site of both ideological
control and resistance.
Digital technologies have been a key influence
in bringing the embodied consciousness and a
metaphysics of the body back into focus. What
qualities of human interaction are enabled or
disabled by digital technologies? If our
contemporary co-existence in both real and
digital habitats is increasingly removing the
distinction between real and fictional or
simulated, fantasy and fact, how is that
affecting our values? The computer or TV screen
turns the live human into a digital object, an
avatar. The digital tends to the specular, the
solitary, the pornographic, the onanistic, the
commodity. Can we play responsibly with each
other in the digital domain?
Tickets: 7.5 GBP, concessions 4.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacyatrisk.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacyatrisk.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
18:30 - 23:00
LAUNCH OF INTIMACY - FREE, no booking required!
Come along for a very exciting evening of
cutting-edge performances and a few glasses of
wine, and SPREAD THE WORD.
An eclectic programme of live performances
taking place at Goldsmiths Campus: Ben Pimlott
Foyer & Seminar Rooms, George Wood Theatre and
Studio 3.
With artists: SUKA OFF (Poland), Tale of Tales
(Belgium), Avatar Body Collision (International)
among many others.
Full Programme TBC soon - check website for frequent updates.
*SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER*
10:00-14:00 [Goldsmiths: Graduate School Seminar Room]
SEMINAR: PERFORMANCE AND PORNOGRAPHY
Leader: DR. DOMINIC JOHNSON, Queen Mary University of London
This seminar will address representations of
erotic and sexual intimacy in performance.
Performance will be explored as a staging of
forbidden or otherwise troubled intimacies,
thinking through works that figure intimacy
between queers, intimacy with animals, and
intimacy with children. Works for discussion may
include Ron Athey and Lee Adam's
/Revisions of Excess/ event, Pier Paolo
Pasolini's /Porcile/ and /Salo/, Kira O'Reilly's
/Inthewrongplaceness/, Tennessee Williams'
/Suddenly, Last Summer/, and the photography of
Slava Mogutin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Richard
Kern. In approaching these diverse performances
of difficult intimacies, critical frameworks
will be set up, deploying Emmanuel Levinas's
idea of the infinite intimacy that is the
epiphany of the
face-to-face encounter; William Haver's
imagining of "the pornographic life" lived
within the proximate horror of intimate risk;
and Georges Bataille's writings on the threat of
intimate interiors as a "scandalous eruption".
In exploring these varied cultural
practitioners, odd contiguities, favourable
mutations and unfamiliar critical intimacies
may hopefully arise.
Tickets: 7.5 GBP, concessions 4.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacypornography.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacypornography.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
10:30-14:30
WORKSHOP: INTIMACY AND RECORDED PRESENCE [Goldsmiths: George Wood Theatre]
Leader: KELLI DIPPLE, Tate
This workshop will explore intimacy and presence
within the context of the recorded image. Using
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.
Tickets: 7.5 GBP, concessions 4.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacypresence.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacypresence.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
11:00-18:00 [Goldsmiths: Small Hall /Cinema] - FREE, no booking required!
A MARATHON of SHOW & TELL presentations and
SCREENINGS with selected artists from around the
world.
Programme TBC soon - check website for frequent updates.
11:00-18:00 [The Albany: Community Rooms & Studio]
Performances with artists Sam Rose (UK), Mary
Oliver (UK), Leena Kela (Finland), Rachelle
Beaudoin (USA), Pierre Bongiovanni & Camille
Renard (France) and Martina von Holn (UK), among
others.
Programme TBC soon - check website for frequent updates.
Many of the performances are FREE to the public.
14:00-18:00
SEMINAR: (Dis)Embodiment
Leader: PROF. PAUL SERMON, University of Salford.
This seminar will identify and question the
notions of embodiment and disembodiment in
relation to the interacting performer in
telematic and telepresent art installations.
At what point is performer embodying the virtual
performer in front of them? And have they
therefore become disembodied by doing so? A
number of interactive telematic artworks will be
looked at in detail during the seminar,
establishing case-study examples to answer these
questions. Stemming from Kit Galloway and
Sherrie Rabinowitz seminal work Hole-in-Space to
Paul Sermon's telepresent experiments with
Telematic Dreaming and to the current immerging
creative/critical discourse in 'Second Life'
that polarizes fundamental existential questions
concerning identity, the self, the ego and the
(dis)embodied avatar.
Tickets: 7.5 GBP, concessions 4.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacydisembodiment.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacydisembodiment.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
14:00-18:00
WORKSHOP: AVATAR PASTE AND CODE SOUP IN FIRST AND SECOND LIFE
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.
FREE!
Book Now by emailing: drp01mc (at) gold.ac.uk
LIMITED CAPACITY
19:30 [LABAN Studio Theatre]
World Première: SUNA NO ONNA (Woman of the Dunes)
Dans Sans Joux has been commissioned to create a
new movement-design performance for Intimacy.
Suna no Onna, adapted from Hiroshi Teshigahara's
mysterious 1960s cult movie, is a dance
installation that merges virtual and real images
of a life of existential entrapment in an
inhospitable habitat. The ominous sand dunes of
Teshigahara's desert are transformed into
virtual realities that shape the unconscious
ground where the Woman (Katsura Isobe) meets a
scientist-foreigner who stumbles into her life
to become a captive.
The work combines dance, interactive video and
animation, fashion design, and electronic music
created by an ensemble of artists from diverse
creative backgrounds. The integration of the
various elements of this performance follows an
experimental fashion design concept for the
development of sensorial and interfacial
garments (built with intelligent materials)
which respond to movement qualities, energies
and emotional gesture.
Conceived and directed by Johannes Birringer and
Michèle Danjoux, the stage production features
new fashion concepts by Danjoux and digital
designs by a group of collaborating artists
including Paul Verity Smith, Doros Polydorou,
Maria Wiener, and Jonathan Hamilton. Original
music is composed by Oded Ben-Tal, and the
scenography is by Hsueh-Pei Wang. Lighting
design by Miguel Alonso. Suna no Onna is
performed by an international cast of three -
Japanese dancer Katsura Isobe, British dancer
Olu Taiwo, and Chinese dancer Helenna Ren.
Tickets: 12 GBP, concessions 8 GBP
Book Now at:
<https://www.purchase-tickets-online.co.uk/peo22430/default.asp>https://www.purchase-tickets-online.co.uk/peo22430/default.asp
LIMITED CAPACITY
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SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER*
INTIMACY SYMPOSIUM
9:15-9:45
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:45-10:15
INTRODUCTION: RACHEL ZERIHAN & MARIA X
10:15-11:00
KEY SPEAKER: PROF. AMELIA JONES
11:00-12:45
Erotics of (Dis)Embodiment
Panel & Seminar Feedback
Speakers: Prof. Professor Paul Sermon, Dr
Dominic Johnson, Ang Bartram, Kelli Dipple,
Prof. Thecla Schiphorst
Chair: Prof. Janis Jefferies
12:45-13:45
Lunch Break - Live Performances with Hiwa K.
(Iran/Germany) and Adam Overton (USA)
13:45-14:30
Afternoon Key Speaker: Katie Mitchell (TBC)
14:30-16:15
AT RISK
Panel & Seminar Feedback
Speakers: Tracey Warr, Mine Kaylan, Kira O'Reilly, Dr Simon Jones +1TBC
Chair: Prof. Adrian Heathfield
Coffee Break
16:45-18:00
INTIMACY Round-table Discussion
Chair: Prof. Johannes Birringer
18:00-20:00
Live Performances with Anesthesia Associates (NZ) and other TBC
Tickets: 14.5 GBP, concessions 9.5 GBP
Book Now at:
<http://intimacysymposium.eventbrite.com/>http://intimacysymposium.eventbrite.com/
LIMITED CAPACITY
