THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS Why does sound move or block us?
WORKSHOP DAY IRINA BALDINI
Who is your movement for? Is what I’m doing something that I know or haven’t learned? Are we annoyed because we don’t accept what we are doing? In relation with my interest, is it the easiest part that I choose, or the one that gives me something? How fast does our brain realize what we are doing? Is it the beauty of the game/exploration that allows us to Are we interested in receiving or giving orders? Do emotions have a speed? Do the relations master/slave make part of us inside ourselves? How strongly do you experience the external imposition of change? What is the function of dead times?
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4bid developing temporary cultures
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catalogue 16th to 22nd December
2013
4bid
Provides a ground for the development of ideas from various fields, specific or hybrid. During Shuffle Project, a week of exchange between artists in the space known as Gallery in the OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, each participant runs a one-day event/workshop and takes part to sessions led by the others, towards an Open-Show on Sunday.
More about December’s Shuffle Project For December’s Shuffle 3 participants were selected from the monthly Open Call to add to 3 proposals by 4bid members. The guest artists (Virginia Scudeletti, Chris Jackson and Laura Stein) were invited to exchange workshops during the week. Ideas, questions and thoughts were looked at from different perspectives and amplified in the group context. These 6 people, bodies, minds at work came together encouraging discussions and feedback at end of each workshop, whilst all the process was being documented by an external eye, that of Paolo Paggi (4bid), an eye who was part of the project but had no voice throughout its duration. At the end of the week the group gathered for a long and fruitful briefing to discuss the outcomes and give shape to a public presentation of the work: the Open-Show was a re-elaboration of the week’s activities culminated in the form of a four-hours durational performance, in response to the nature of the work done. This catalog documents the individual sessions and the group result.
Virginia Scudeletti
About me, I’d present myself as a freelance dance artist. My creative work focuses on cross-media, for example how to approach theatre from movement practices, how to apply a theatrical structure to dance based performances, how to create performances out of structured improvisation and cross art collaboration, aside with an ongoing research about the act of performing and my personal approach to it. Gained a BA in Dance Theatre, Trinity Laban Conservatoire. First Class Honours. London, 2011. Several performance in UK. I also collaborate as performer with On the Roof Collective and London Soundpanting Orchestra. I’ve always deepen my
Chris Jackson
The artists
There is an essential distraction that pervades all aspects of my work, which becomes form through through the force of looking. My practice, then, is one that is occasioned through memory and which in its encounter with a public turns ‘cinematic’. This is a condition that is symptomatic of an exand the internal action of memory overlap. These new structural formations make the space of experience a site of fascination and encounter. In my work, these encounters are often conand a diverse visual praxis. I am drawn towards an experience, that is unforseen, but which anticipates, even in its failure, a new way of looking;
of interest by attending numerous courses and workshops (Klein technique, Flying low, Physical theatre, Gaga, Butoh, Yoga, Professional Practice course Formazione Tersicore 2012).
Laura Stein
Sometimes a teacher, other times a playwright or a detective, I move between learning, playing and acting. I like turning
body as a playground, or a stage, where characters and places meet me. I am interested in the ways we understand the implicit rules that govern our interactions. Currently studying the third year of Fine Arts at the Cooper Union in New York. ( I usually use the name SuperLunaKpa as a character in my artmaking but my “real name” is Laura Stein. So either or could be put as my name. )
The 4bids
4bid is a group of four people that engages in creative diaperformance, dance, installation and curatorial practice. The Gallery is a physical space in which to create, express, expose the product of elaborations, facilitating communication and exchange between individuals and the local community. We like the idea of a small family inhabiting the space -and lery’s door. An independent entity that is part of the bigger family, the OT301. The space has for us a double function: at times a ‘backstage area’ where activities, studies, promanner, and an organized presenting platform that shows variety of recurrent activities open to the public: exhibitions/ open studios, workshops and performances/installations.
December’s Open Show was a performance. There was a structure, a very clear set of Open show
week had been. Taking all this into a revival of the week’s activities, the group designed a Show that, within the given tasks, could allow for the freedom everyone had found to tranThe audience could come in and out of the set as they pleased, the performers were constantly on the go, focused on their tasks, and free to take decisions on the spot and shift radically the dynamics of the room by changing lights, sound, set and props, dressing up, talking to the public, walking out of the room for a break. All of this in a meticulously planned score of this bizarre choreography of authentic activities. The interaction with the audience and the decision making that characterized the performance made of it a fun and at the same time professional experience for all, 4bid, the guests and the audience who supported the atmosphere throughout the Show.
Links and on-line material w w w. 4 b i d g a l l e r y. c o m w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / 4 b i d g a l l e r y
THE DOCUMENTATOR’S SUGGESTED QUESTIONS Why does sound move or block us?
WORKSHOP DAY IRINA BALDINI
Who is your movement for? Is what I’m doing something that I know or haven’t learned? Are we annoyed because we don’t accept what we are doing? In relation with my interest, is it the easiest part that I choose, or the one that gives me something? How fast does our brain realize what we are doing? Is it the beauty of the game/exploration that allows us to Are we interested in receiving or giving orders? Do emotions have a speed? Do the relations master/slave make part of us inside ourselves? How strongly do you experience the external imposition of change? What is the function of dead times?