Proposal One – Trio Collective
Title: TBC
Format: Video Installation
3 TV’s simultaneously playing 3 videos’s in a continuous loop
Duration: 45 minutes (one loop)
Content:
· Re-construction of an interview from France/tour/detour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 3: Connu/Géométrie/Géographie – a documentary in three parts by Jean-Luc Godard
Concept:
· To reconstruct the exact interview from the documentary asking other people the same questions as the little girl in the original.
· To take the interview out of its specific historical/political context and to place it in our everyday context.
Process:
· From the transcript of the interview questions we each individually took a minimum of three interviews.
· Because the interview is related specifically to a school we chose to interview people (our friends, family and acquaintances) who also have a direct relationship with school (teachers, students, children).
· We devised a system of editing in which we divided the questions into groups of three. Each video proceeds in the correct order of the original interview with the interview divided and shifting between people. The interviews repeat in the video so that each interviewee’s full interview ends up being shown.
Technical requirements:
· 3 TV’s with 3 DVD players
· 3 plinths or boxes to place TV’s on
· 3 headphones
Trio Biography:
Trio is a performance collective that was formed in 2009 in London by visual and performing artists Stella Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Antje Hildebrandt (Germany), Elena Koukoli (Greece), and Michelle K. Lynch (USA). Our work is situated between conceptual dance, performance and Live Art and is reflective of our diverse backgrounds and research. Seeking alternative ways to work together, we have formed a virtual rehearsal space that acts as a platform for collaborative performance practice (http://triocollective.wordpress.com/). Here you can find documentation, visuals and video excerpts of both completed and incomplete works.
Proposal Two – Antje Hildebrandt
Title: Open Offer for Elbow Room – A Silent Lecture Document
Format: Video and Text Installation
Two laptops are placed next to each other. One shows video documentation of a live performance. The other displays the accompanying text that was given out in form of a letter during the live performance. The two are synchronised so that a multiple and cross-lateral reading is possible.
Duration: 35 minutes
Intentionally un-spectacular, Open Offer for Elbow Room takes an ironic approach to presenting performance and its reading; playing with words, language, and political and symbolic references. On the threshold between seriousness and stupidity the performance becomes more and more sophisticated as the simple structure of the work is revealed.
Review:
'Open Offer for Elbow Room is one of those rare poetic performances that understands the necessary co-dependance of spectator and performer. Through small and subtle re-arrangments of objects and actions, the performer literally writes words and sentences in the audience's mind. Drawing on linguistics, the history of dance, performance art, and the study of consciousness, Open Offer for Elbow Room is a compelling meditation on the ways in which our thoughts can produce things, and how things can produce thoughts.'
- Augusto Corrieri (Performance Artist)
Previous Live Performances:
July 2010: as part of The way we read: performance / text/ image,HOUSE Gallery,London,UK
May 2010: as part of LECTURE HALL. FREE SCHOOL., Bethnal Green Library, London, UK
June 2010: as part of ABUNDANCE – Dance and Choreography Festival, Karlstad, Sweden
Web links / Documentation:
Technical requirements:
- 2 laptops
Biography:
Antje Hildebrandt is a London-based choreographer and performer who creates site-specific performances, installations, one-to-one encounters and theatrical works. She has a MA in Dance Theatre: The Body in Performance from Laban and a first honours degree in Dance and Arts Management from De Montfort University. Currently undertaking a PhD in the dance department at the University of Wolverhampton she is researching into concepts of the audience as author and the use of language and text in live performance. As well as working individually she often collaborates with other artists (most recently performance writer Rachel Lois Clapham) and she has worked and performed with Serbian Artistic Collective Doplgenger, Willi Dorner, Lea Anderson, Franko B and Tino Sehgal. Antje is a member of Trio, a collective of four artists who are interested in collaborative performance practice.
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