Perception as Role Materials

Project Leads: Eugenia Ivanissevich and Margarita Zafrilla

Number of participants:  15

Duration: 5 days

Project Outline:
With Margarita Zafrilla (dancer) and Eugenia Ivanissevich (visual artist), this workshop invites participants to consider the world of the senses as materials. Playing with different corporeal movements and reaching beyond the visual field we will explore other regions and planes of perception. We will navigate reflective work between composing our experiences and experiencing our compositions. This 5 day workshop offers an opportunity to reconsider “presence”. What does it mean to be present at a time where presence is geographical and physical but also virtual and mediated? Can our body’s movement teach us to re –engage with the world around us and how can this inform a creative practice?

Day 1
“Sense of touch, with my invisible eyes”
Participants and workshop facilitators present their practice/ interests.
Exploring movement material and choreographic scores. Tuning into our sense of touch, incorporating objects and drawing to produce visual and tactile records from the movement session.

Day 2
“Sense of weight, floating volumes between ground and skies”
Exploring our sense of weight through movement material and choreographic scores. Incorporating materials such as steel and wool to the exploration of weight to generate visual records from the physical experience.

Day 3
“Sense of space: proximities and distances, sense of rhythm”
Exploring our sense of space and sense of  rhythm via movement material and choreographic scores. Incorporating materials such as elastic to the exploration of space and rhythm to generate visual records (drawings, photographs, sculptures).

Day 4
“Sense of balance, in tilting verticality”
Tuning into our sense of balance in movement material and choreographic scores. Incorporating walls, floor and ceiling to the exploration of balance and generate visual records (drawings, photographs, sculptures).

Day 5
Imprints and records, physical forms of tracing experience
Reflecting upon imprint material generated throughout the week and the workshop as a format in itself where collective discovery and experience are the materials generated. How do we trace such experiences and communicate them to others?
Collectively select and design an A4 booklet. Printing and binding of A4 booklet. 

Additional information: Participants should bring comfortable clothing to move in and a blanket