looks like a great workshop : ) body work
can be challenging if you have a group of non-performers who don't
know each other terribly well, you need to spend time making people
feel comfortable & if your time is limited you need to find ways
to do it quickly.
the workshops i teach are mostly
computer-based, but karla ptacek & i taught one last year for
nancy reilly mcvittie & her live art students at MMU where we
moved into a performance space & integrated bodies & web cams
into the work we'd begun on the computer. most of the participants
already knew each other, & were performance students. we'd spent
the morning playing with avatars, which got everyone into the mood for
it, but unfortunately we didn't have enough time (it was a one-day
workshop) to really explore it. it would have been good to have been
able to give a whole day to the physical work.
there are a lot of performance artists
working in this area - stelarc (http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/), blast
theory (http://www.blasttheory.co.uk), the wooster group
(http://www.thewoostergroup.org), etc etc. but i'm not sure who offers
workshops.
h : )
Last year at trAce's Incubation
conference
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/ I ran a workshop which invited
people to
use dolls, parts of computers and natural materials to make small
maquettes
of themselves in relation to their machines. It was a rather mad event
and
I'm not sure whether it worked or not - see the bizarre photos
at
http://travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com/photos/incubation3/ !
(some of the
participants are on this list, although whether they will own up to
playing
with leaves and circuit boards is another question!) In fact, my
original
plan had been to take them through a series of physical exercises
before we
made the models but when it came to it, I was too shy to ask them to
do
that. Does anyone else run any kind of mixed body/technology workshop?
I'd
love to try it with a leader who has more
experience than I had!
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