Bodysurf Scotland in partnership with videodance.org.uk presents:
Opensource:{video-dance} 2007
Bulletin Two
We would like to invite you to our second symposium at the
Universal Hall Arts Centre, Findhorn Foundation Community, Scotland
from 20th – 24th November 2007. Opensource: {Videodance} 2007 is an
open symposium for artists, academics, curators and producers coming
together, to share ideas and work, network and debate, and provide a
valuable platform for current issues in the area of screen dance
practice to come to the surface.
Early registration discount
All delegates registering and paying in full by 15th October will be
entitled to £20 discount on their fee. Contact: Karl or Liz at
Bodysurf Scotland to make sure of your reduction.
More guest speakers announced
Along with our previously announced presentations we can now announce
three more special guest speakers.
Prof. Tim Ingold, the highly respected social anthropologist at
Aberdeen University, has been invited to present his most recent
research interests that are currently exciting him. The territory he
covers is wide and fascinating from environmental perception and
skilled practice to language and technology, from the dynamics of
pedestrian movement to the creativity of practice, from lines and
line-making to cultural improvisation and art. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/
Australian Richard James Allen is Artistic Director with Karen
Pearlman of The Physical TV Company, a multi-award-winning and
critically lauded leader in the international dance on screen
landscape. The Physical TV Company develops and produces works
within and across the media of film, dance and literature. Karen and
Richard have a wealth of professional experience in cinema and dance
and a sustained and visionary commitment to integrating the two
arts. http://www.physicaltv.com.au/
“In conversation” special event with improvising comedian Phil
Kay. To be at one of Phil's shows and expect stand-up would be a big
mistake. Anything can happen and invariably does! Phil's comedy is a
unique blend of energy, improvisation and leaps of imagination that
take his audience on a joyride they'll never forget. In this one off
event he talks about his work and creative processes.
Artists in residence
We are very pleased to have designer, illustrator and artist, Cavan
Convery joining our ‘scribe’ team. Cavan’s role will be as artist in
residence drawing from his scant knowledge of dance on screen, but
his wealth of knowledge in science interpretation and media arts
combined with highly tuned polemical skills and warm humour will
surely force us to have to explain ourselves properly. http://
www.artsci.co.uk
Based on participants’ feedback from the first symposium, each
morning of this year’s event will start with a 45-minute movement-
based warm-up session. We are delighted that these will be lead by
choreographer and dance film-maker Litza Bixler. Find out more about
Litza at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litza_Bixler
Hu - manifesto
Just to remind ourselves where we got to last year we thought we
should publish here the (Hu)Manifesto: Possibilities for Screendance.
This is not an attempt to define screendance or to suggest that
there is one way to create a screendance. It is instead, an attempt
to open and enrich the discourse surrounding the field. In a
humanifesto, content comes to the surface. This humanifesto asserts
that screendance has the potential to articulate metaphor, express
conceptual concerns and manifest thematic possibilities. Inherent in
the proposition of screendance is the possibility that through an
accretion of images of bodies in motion, a larger truth may unfold.
* One that is greater than the impact of each moment experienced in
isolation.
* One in which sequential images in the context of dance on screen
resonate with accompanying frames of reference to manifest a larger
understanding of the world.
* That in order to accomplish this, the screendance community must by
necessity engage itself with rigorous critique that is grounded in
both pre-existing and yet-to-be articulated methodologies.
Inherent in this proposition is the understanding that the following
issues are references that may exist in screendance. It is not an
exhaustive list:
1. Form
2. Content
3. Technique
4. Gender
5. Ageism
6. Virtuosity
7. Semiotics
8. Meaning
9. Culture
10. Politics
11. Hybridity
12. Identity
13. Populism
14. Race
15. History
While all of these elements need not be present in a screendance, we
propose that screendance be viewed through these and other external
prisms in order to afford screendance a level of rigor equal to that
of other art forms and to facilitate and stimulate informed critique.
Please let us know if you would like to join us at Findhorn in
November 2007, or whether you are considering it as a possibility. We
would also like you to extend this invitation to others who you think
might be interested in joining us. We look forward to hearing from
you. With kind regards, Karl Jay-Lewin, Katrina McPherson and Simon
Fildes
Please contact: [log in to unmask] or
call +44(0)1309 691661. Booking, travel and accommodation information
can be found at
http://www.bodysurf.findhorn.com/ and other information at http://
videodance.blogspot.com/
and http://www.videodance.org.uk/
Funded and supported by:
http://www.left-luggage.co.uk
http://www.go-at.co.uk
http://www.move-me.com
http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk
http://www.videodance.org.uk
http://www.move-me.com
http://www.hyperchoreography.org
http://www.screendance.org
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