Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Gestures for/from Walla Walla


How can I encourage physical experimentation and connection within my rural community in Eastern Washington?  Join me for an embodiment experiment that uses technology to help transgress distances.

Since many of you have never been to Walla Walla, I decided to share a snapshot!  





















References for this Participatory Project


I created my very first movement score accidentally... or rather before I knew what a score was and how they were employed. The result was a video installation that documented the performance process and an installation of the "props":



Since then, my use and interest in scores has evolved dramatically. I have found scores to be a great means for inspiring physical experimentation, directing a collective of movers, and most importantly as a way for me to consciously enact trust in my body as a means of knowledge production. I moved to Walla Walla a year and a half ago and have noticed that movement experimentation is rare here, especially in public spaces. I'm hoping to create a resource for educators, students and movers to share this somatic resource.


Online/Book Resources:
Fluxus Art, Wikipedia description (overview of movement at the origins of my initial interest)
Grapefruit, book by Yoko Ono (1964)
Fluxus Performance Workbook by Ken Friedman, Owen Smith and Lauren Sawchyn
School Book 2, publication by Goat Island Performance Group (2000)
Learning to Love You More, a project by Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July (2002-2009)
Draw it With Your Eyes Closed, a project by Paper Monument (book published in 2012)
The Art and Social Practice Workbook (download), a project by Guestwork (2013)
PBS's The Art Assignment, a project started by Sarah Urist Green (founded 2014)
This Very Moment: teaching, thinking, dancing, a book by Barbara Dilley (2015)

Personal Conversations/ Interviews:
Jessica Cerrulo (Walla Walla, WA) Nicole Pietrantoni (Walla Walla, WA)
Ariana Jacobs (Portland, OR)
Roya Amirsoleymani (Portland, OR)
Harrell Fletcher (Portland, OR)
PSU Art and Social Practice cohort (Portland, OR)
Tamin Totzke (Seattle, WA)
Kirsten Kosmos (Walla Walla, WA)
Terri Cotts (Walla Walla, WA)
Travis Neel & Erin Charpentier of Guestwork (Portland, OR)
Renee Sills (Portland, OR)


Class Readings for Week 9

I read over 100 scores trying to decide which ones to share with you and in the end I'm sharing two that I have been iterating in my collaborative performance practice for many years. The first two images are from a mini-book so I'm counting them as one page. :)

from "School Book 2" by Goat Island Performance Group (2000)
from "School Book 2" by Goat Island Performance Group (2000)
from "THIS VERY MOMENT: teaching thinking dancing" by Barbara Dilley (2015)




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