Signalling — at the molecular level collaborative performance Ambika P3 22nd March 2019 | 7 pm
response/i/ability symposium panel Ambika P3 24th March 2019 | ~4:00 pm
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE
signalling — at the molecular level ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Monika Jaeckel INTUERI (2018)
“signalling — at the molecular level” features the amplified e-textiles by the fashion designer Gabriela Guasti Rocha for her work INTUERI. COLLABORATIVE DANCERS
Giulia Iurza, Livia Massarelli, Francis Maskens Gloria Trolla, Tom Wohlfahrt ART DU DEPLACEMENT PRACTITIONERS
Georgia Munroe and Louiseanne Wong SOUND MANAGEMENT
Matthias Kispert CAMERA
Lene Vollhardt
As with any other space when entered, Ambika P3 becomes tangible in its relation and affectivity to both time and mattering. Engaging with the visible and audible specifics of the site, movement practitioners of “signalling — at the molecular level” will bring word and movement, intellect and sense into a direct relation. Dancers engage with the room, each from their perspective. Wearing e-textiles by the fashion designer Gabriela Guasti Rocha, the performers’ movements will create an additional acoustic layer from what is normally an imperceptible range of sounds. Fitted with wireless transmitters, these costumes pick up buzzing sounds that are elicited by the interference of motion. The combination of these noises sparked by movement together with the speech of a performative writing aims to underscore that thought and action emerge in their interference with the layers and diffractions of their surroundings. By combining text, sound and motion in a layered and diffractive way, this live collaboration approaches movement as directly involved in the emergence of thought. Movement, understood as a multi-layered processual interweaving, allows the unanticipated appearance of various forms of knowing, to demonstrate the inter-relatedness of terms commonly understood as antagonistic and separate—theory and practice, body and mind, self and other – towards an interpretation of complementarity.
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Monika Jaeckel
SYMPOSIUM PANEL
response/i/ability INVITED SPEAKERS
Kat Austen | Gabriela Guasti Rocha | Kasturi Torchia Response-ability is a key term for Karen Barad by which she defines agency as being settled on the possibilities of mutual response. Agency thus is not something that is solely possessed by humans or non-humans but is enacted. These intra-active enactments provide possibilities for re-configurings.[1] In this sense I am interested to explore from a human situatedness the realm of responses around us, and which occur due to our actions. Perceiving them incites a responsibility not in the sense of a strict right or wrong, but as ‘accountability for the lively relationalities of becoming, of which we are a part.’[2] These relationalities are threading human and non-human matter together. Responsibility is thus related to the ability to respond which emerges from affective receptivity. Response/i/ability, written as a threefold, tries to address the ability to notice a response received from somewhere, to act responsible, and the ability to give a response. response: searching for ‘unheard/neglected’/different responses responsibility: what incites from this: empathy, ethics, adaption response-ability: how to respond differently The works of the invited participants address these conjunctions each in its unique way.
Kat Austen interrogates the boundary between what we think of as the self and other(s). Her work relates to redefining and enriching our relationship to the environment. Of particular interest for her is the role of borders to create dualities, the emotional connectedness of the self to other(s) and the role of affect and experience in this, and interrogating, contextualising and intervening in our current knowledge hierarchy as an action that affects our response/i/ability. Gabriela Guasti Rocha designs e-textiles which pick up electromagnetic waves and translate them into signals. They have been presented in the performance “signalling – at the molecular level” and are on display during the exhibition. She conceives her contribution as being interested in response as to Listen / Respect, responsibility as Care / Time / Attention and, response-ability as Sense / Awareness. Kasturi Torchia has a background in the movement practice of Parkour and also works on personal development. She will discuss how movement within an environment can trigger possible re-enactments of one’s past, often unconsciously, impacting on ones experience of themselves and others. Yet with some guidance responding to one’s environment could in fact shift their unconscious impacts on themselves and others, thereby eventually influencing people to alter their management of themselves, responding to themselves and the world ever so differently. [1] “Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers” Interview with Karen Barad in Dolphijn, Rick; van der Tuin, Iris (2012): New Materialism. Interviews & Cartographies. [S.l.]: Open Humanities Press. [2] Ibid: p.69
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Monika Jaeckel
Kat Austen’s work focusses on interrogating the boundary between what we think of as the self and other(s). Her work relates to redefining and enriching our relationship to the environment, with a particular focus on climate change. Her works span performance, installation and participatory workshops and explores our relationship to the environment through embodiment, aesthetics and experience. In her artistic research she collaborates with scientists and other artists, and incorporates DIY Science as a knowledge-making practice and political act. Austen is a Berlin-based artist and is Teaching Fellow at University College London’s Art and Science BASc. She was Cultural Fellow in Art and Science at the University of Leeds and 2017-18 Artist in the Arctic for Friends of SPRI / Scott Polar Research Institute, sponsored by Bonhams and OneOcean Giulia Iurza is an Italian freelance contemporary dance artist. Originally from Naples, in Italy, where she studied dance for 10 years, obtaining a diploma from her dance school before continuing her training at Laban in London. Giulia has worked alongside international choreographers and performed in UK and abroad working in projects with artists from different fields such as Liz Glynn (Frieze Art Fair) and Olafur Eliasson (Tate Modern) and performed in different contexts, indoor and outdoor. Alongside her career as performer she is also interested in choreography together with J7s Dance Company, and she has created two works which have performed in UK and abroad. Monika Jaeckel is an artist, writer and performer based in Berlin and London. She has a background in performance and new media and is currently under-
taking a practice-based PhD within the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at Westminster University. Studied with Joan Jonas performance and media at the ABK Stuttgart and new media (EM)MA with Olia Lialina at Merz Akademie. Francis Maskens trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and National youth dance company to go on to train at London Contemporary Dance school completing with BA hons in Contemporary dance. whilst studying he worked with such artists as Hofesh shecter co, Punchdrunk, Lea Anderson, Jasmin Vardimon and Hannes Langolf whilst going on to freelance work with companies such as counterpoint dance and Arct collective. Livia Massarelli is a freelance dance artist interested in performance, choreography and teaching. She performed with Edge Company (London) and she participated in various projects in Italy, Austria, Germany and Uk as dancer and choreographer, collaborating with many visual artists, composers and engineers. More info: www.liviamassarelli.com Georgia Munroe is a performing athlete and coach, specialising in Art Du Deplacement/Parkour. She was born and raised in London, with a strong passion for movement and exploration found at an early age. Through her process and community, Georgia’s journey is one of self-discovery and self-love, moving to find herself. instagram: Georgia_munroe_ pk, Facebook: Georgia Munroe, Twitter: Georgia-Munroe-Pk (@MunroePK).
Gabriela Guasti Rocha, Berlin, is a multidisciplinary designer interested in creating bridges between the digital and the analog world. Through her work, she reflects the possibilities of interaction with the body and diversity of thinking. She studied Fashion Design at the UDK Berlin and is currently making her Master studies in Interface at FHP. Kasturi Torchia, Co-founder of Esprit Concrete and Mental Health Lead for Parkour UK. Her research and practice centres heavily on somaticized pain, re-experienced trauma and re-enactment through movement based mediums such as art du deplacement. Kasturi is an art du deplacement practitioner herself in her final months of doctoral training in counselling psychology, her method exploring one’s unconscious responsiveness to one’s environment, mapping ones management of their environment as embodiment to their relational conflicts to themselves and others. Seeing movement as a visceral demonstration of ones internal processes projected onto the outside world, conjugally with a means by which one’s internal process can be moulded and even altered by the world. Gloria Trolla is an Italian-London based freelance dance artist. She graduated at Trinity Laban and performed nationally and internationally with Transitions Dance Company 2018 a Triple Bill by Hagit Yakira, Richard Chappell, and Jarkko Partanen. She worked with artists including Jessica Wright and Anna Nowak (Studio Wayne McGregor), Maciej Kuzminski, Kate Lawrence (Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence) amongst others. Additional collaborations include Gareth
Pugh S/S 18 Independent Fashion Film, directed by Nick Knight and choreographed by Wayne McGregor (BFI IMAX, London), and a live performance devised by Sarah Matthews and Joe Townsend at the United States Embassy in London. For Tom Wohlfahrt dance started as a tool for therapy when he was 5. With 17, he became a professional dancer, touring in Europe and competing in World Championships. Today, he is the Artistic Director of RARE SALT, a London based dance company and is searching for opportunities to create thought-provoking work. See also at Instagram: @raresaltdance Louiseanne Wong is a dancer, movement artist, choreographer and coach. Originally from Hong Kong, her curiosities brought her to search and express through dance, music, and Art du Deplacement (ADD) / Parkour. Her expertise and passion allows her to combine Dance with ADD as a means of self-discovery and expression under Esprit Concrete. Instagram: @louiseannewong, Facebook: @louiseannew, twitter: @louiseannewong.