Choreogenic brochure

choreo genic _the mechanism

photography: George Kampolis with thanks to George Parmenidis original music, sound editing: Apostolis Alysandratos camera, video editing: Manos Georgakopoulos directors: Georgia Antzampou, Chryssoula Karadima, Manos Georgakopoulos dancers: Angela Patseli, Tasos Mpekiaris spatial study: Chryssoula Karadima choreographic study: Georgia Antzampou choreogenic I

choreogenic I

The project is a result of the the association of PhD seminars and undergraduate courses of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens.

Undergraduate course of the 6th semester “The object forms space”, Department III: Architectural Language – Communication – Design. teaching

Vana Xenou (professor) George Parmenidis (professor) Ifigenia Mari (lecturer)

PhD Students with Advisory Committee:

Georgia Atzampou (shipbuilder engineer, choreographer) George Parmenidis, Stavros Stavridis, Katia Savrami

with Advisory Committee:

Chryssoula Karadima (architect engineer) Vana Xenou, Solon Xenopoulos, George Parmenidis

collaborators

dancers: Angela Patseli, Tasos Mpekiaris camera, video editing: Manos Georgakopoulos camera: Babis Louizidis

student drawings and models Maria Bika, Constantinos Voutoufianakis-Petropoulos,

Sophia Iatrou, Theodoros Koutros, Dimitris Loukos,

Constantinos Retsinas, Maria Tzoumba photography

Manos Georgakopoulos, Chryssoula Karadima NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / DEPARTMENT III ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE – COMMUNICATION – DESIGN

choreo genic I

The second part, choreogenic Ι, is a self – contained work.

The video has been filmed in an abandoned, ’50s factory in a suburb of Athens.

Specifically, the movement vocabulary of the site specific performance has been constituted by the following conceptual tools: • the entitled spatial fields, based on the choreographed compositions that had embodied kinetic motives of everyday experience, as a result of the research of choreogenic_ the mechanism • The properties of the industrial space, attributed by its history.

The interweaving of both conceptual tools led us to an independent spatial translation language of that specific place which reinterprets conventional spatial constructions through choreographic phrases.

The video is structured in five scenes while space is revealed in a fragmentary manner.

The first scene takes place in the corridor of the complex. The intention of movement is led by senses that activate the embodied experiences and memories. Here, the simple linear walking is broken and the body is fragmented following a “Broken Route”. The body incorporates the properties of the absent objects – the heavy machinery of paper production – emphasizing to the “Weight of Route”.

The activation of senses is kinetically performed like a constant battle with the potential “magnetic forces” of the structural elements – “Magnet”.

In the second scene the dancers interact with a big wall / subject using obsessive kinetic forms seeking an “Exodus in Three Points”. At the end, bodies and wall are involved in a conflictive sculpture, in a continuous “Fight”.

In the third scene the threshold as a distorting switch, changes the dynamic of movement and as an intermediate space, directs the male dancer to a dark, unfamiliar place where he efforts to balance on a “Fluid Floor”. On the other side the female dancer moves in a centripetal way attracted by the threshold.

choreo genic _the mechanism

In the large unfamiliar room of the forth scene, the oblivious intimacy emerged by perpetual spiral and curved movements in both dancers’ personal and general space, gradually reaches to the center of the room, the smallest element of the labyrinth.

In the last scene the fragmentary relationship with space is reconstituted. The monumental spatial sculpture appears as one of the potential multiple reconstitutions of the whole.

Georgia Atzampou (www.atzabougeorgia.gr) Chryssoula Karadima (ckarad@gmail.com)

iii. Potential objects and actions. The space is perceived as a dynamic field of a cluster of behaviours, negotiations and fragmentary contacts. The trace of these actions is represented diagrammatically for the meaningful constitution of spatial fields and the establishment of continuities in the fragmentary, daily experience. ii. The potential spatialities that are activated by the deconstruction of familiar, spatial – transition experiences. In that case, space is perceived as a field transformed by the impact of plastic and elastic forces. i. The developed choreogenic events which incorporate the elaboration of cellular movement phrases.

In that case, the space is perceived as a field of absent objects, where the memory is kinetically kept in a reciprocal constitution of subject – object. This memory is spatialized into different spatial contexts and conditions of interactions, broadening the meaning of spatial field.

Specifically, the products of this mechanism are: The first part, choreogenic_the mechanism, is a documentation video introducing the constitution process of a research mechanism of open tools for composing objects, actions, spatial and kinetic developments.

The mechanism has been constituted during the association of PhD seminars and undergraduate courses of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, which resulted to an amount of composed diagrams and entitled spatial fields, depicting multiple, broadened spatial meanings in interaction with movement.

The two dancers’ relation with an object of their choice created cellular movement phrases, individual, combined or evolved, in familiar and unfamiliar spaces – School of Architecture, ottoman baths, urban site in the city centre.

Choreogenic is a complex attempt involving kinetic, drawing and time – based media work. It constists of two parts, choreogenic_the mechanism and choreogenic I.

choreo genic _the mechanism

photography: George Kampolis with thanks to George Parmenidis original music, sound editing: Apostolis Alysandratos camera, video editing: Manos Georgakopoulos directors: Georgia Antzampou, Chryssoula Karadima, Manos Georgakopoulos dancers: Angela Patseli, Tasos Mpekiaris spatial study: Chryssoula Karadima choreographic study: Georgia Antzampou choreogenic I The project is a result of the the association of PhD seminars and undergraduate courses of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens.

Undergraduate course of the 6th semester “The object forms space”, Department III: Architectural Language – Communication – Design.

choreogenic I

dancers: Angela Patseli, Tasos Mpekiaris camera, video editing: Manos Georgakopoulos camera: Babis Louizidis

collaborators

Chryssoula Karadima (architect engineer) Vana Xenou, Solon Xenopoulos, George Parmenidis

with Advisory Committee:

Georgia Atzampou (shipbuilder engineer, choreographer) George Parmenidis, Stavros Stavridis, Katia Savrami

PhD Students with Advisory Committee:

Vana Xenou (professor) George Parmenidis (professor) Ifigenia Mari (lecturer)

teaching

student drawings and models Maria Bika, Constantinos Voutoufianakis-Petropoulos,

Sophia Iatrou, Theodoros Koutros, Dimitris Loukos,

Constantinos Retsinas, Maria Tzoumba photography

Manos Georgakopoulos, Chryssoula Karadima NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / DEPARTMENT III ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE – COMMUNICATION – DESIGN

The video has been filmed in an abandoned, ’50s factory in a suburb of Athens.

Specifically, the movement vocabulary of the site specific performance has been constituted by the following conceptual tools: • the entitled spatial fields, based on the choreographed compositions that had embodied kinetic motives of everyday experience, as a result of the research of choreogenic_ the mechanism • The properties of the industrial space, attributed by its history.

The interweaving of both conceptual tools led us to an independent spatial translation language of that specific place which reinterprets conventional spatial constructions through choreographic phrases.

The video is structured in five scenes while space is revealed in a fragmentary manner.

The first scene takes place in the corridor of the complex. The intention of movement is led by senses that activate the embodied experiences and memories. Here, the simple linear walking is broken and the body is fragmented following a “Broken Route”. The body incorporates the properties of the absent objects – the heavy machinery of paper production – emphasizing to the “Weight of Route”.

The activation of senses is kinetically performed like a constant battle with the potential “magnetic forces” of the structural elements – “Magnet”.

In the second scene the dancers interact with a big wall / subject using obsessive kinetic forms seeking an “Exodus in Three Points”. At the end, bodies and wall are involved in a conflictive sculpture, in a continuous “Fight”.

The first part, choreogenic_the mechanism, is a documentation video introducing the constitution process of a research mechanism of open tools for composing objects, actions, spatial and kinetic developments.

The mechanism has been constituted during the association of PhD seminars and undergraduate courses of the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, which resulted to an amount of composed diagrams and entitled spatial fields, depicting multiple, broadened spatial meanings in interaction with movement.

The two dancers’ relation with an object of their choice created cellular movement phrases, individual, combined or evolved, in familiar and unfamiliar spaces – School of Architecture, ottoman baths, urban site in the city centre.

Choreogenic is a complex attempt involving kinetic, drawing and time – based media work. It constists of two parts, choreogenic_the mechanism and choreogenic I.

Chryssoula Karadima (ckarad@gmail.com)

Specifically, the products of this mechanism are:

Georgia Atzampou (www.atzabougeorgia.gr)

i. The developed choreogenic events which incorporate the elaboration of cellular movement phrases.

In that case, the space is perceived as a field of absent objects, where the memory is kinetically kept in a reciprocal constitution of subject – object. This memory is spatialized into different spatial contexts and conditions of interactions, broadening the meaning of spatial field.

In the last scene the fragmentary relationship with space is reconstituted. The monumental spatial sculpture appears as one of the potential multiple reconstitutions of the whole.

choreo genic _the mechanism

In the large unfamiliar room of the forth scene, the oblivious intimacy emerged by perpetual spiral and curved movements in both dancers’ personal and general space, gradually reaches to the center of the room, the smallest element of the labyrinth.

ii. The potential spatialities that are activated by the deconstruction of familiar, spatial – transition experiences. In that case, space is perceived as a field transformed by the impact of plastic and elastic forces.

In the third scene the threshold as a distorting switch, changes the dynamic of movement and as an intermediate space, directs the male dancer to a dark, unfamiliar place where he efforts to balance on a “Fluid Floor”. On the other side the female dancer moves in a centripetal way attracted by the threshold.

iii. Potential objects and actions. The space is perceived as a dynamic field of a cluster of behaviours, negotiations and fragmentary contacts. The trace of these actions is represented diagrammatically for the meaningful constitution of spatial fields and the establishment of continuities in the fragmentary, daily experience.

choreogenic I

The second part, choreogenic Ι, is a self – contained work.