ANGIE CHENG

PROJECT // We don’t know, and we’re doing it. Portals

KAREN FENNELL

PROJECT // I Want to be Alone but We’re in This Together

ADDENDUM

PROJECT // Addendum Actions Criticality with Care (AACC)

LUCY M. MAY

PROJECT // The Conditions (working title)

Photo by Francesca Chudnoff

Curators-in-Residence

As part of the Curator-in-Residence program, Studio 303 invites Burcu Emeç and Christopher Willes to design an event whose form will be revealed during the season. The floor is theirs: 

“What would it look like to build a practice of making our sources known? Working for the first time together, we propose a co-research process exploring notions of embodied citation, transmission, and distributed authorship within performance practice. Through a series of events at Studio 303 we will host a space to consider different conceptions of citation within performance making–– not only as an ethical concern, but as an ongoing and embodied practice with both aesthetic and political implications. 

We’re asking: How do we care for the presence of other people’s work within our own? What new meanings and ways of living arise when sources are made explicit? What new conceptions of community, ensemble and relation emerge when working methodologies are focused on caring for how knowledge is transmitted from person to person? How do performance practices trouble notions of ownership? How do legal frameworks such as Canadian Intellectual Property Law address these issues and what are their limits? How do these imperatives change when working collectively, vs “in collaboration” or even “alone”? How do they change when considering the non-visual and intangible art forms within performance works (such as music or theory)? How does one honour the presence of those not physically present in our work? 

Subjects we are currently exploring include: embodied forms of citation, performance as genealogical garden making, citing the non-visual and intangible on stage, current Canadian intellectual property law (as a limited framework), citation within workshops and artistic-research / pedagogical context.”

– Burcu Emeç and Christopher Willes, Studio 303 2020-21 Curators-in-Residence

Biographies

Burcu is practicing care, political action and rigorous curiosity. She makes performances, writes, directs and organizes. Her approach blends social commentary, active listening, improvisation and visual art, often shifting between the highly poetic and unbearably banal, the sensorial and methodical. Recent research has been focussed on emotional vulnerability, immigrant and diasporic identities, codes of performance, and tensions between language and image. She is also a cultural worker, and a coordinator at the artist-run centre articule in Montreal. 

Christopher is a multidisciplinary artist and dance dramaturge based in Toronto and Montreal. Moving between communities and frameworks of experimental music/sound, dance, and visual art forms, his work focuses on the subject of listening as an inherently interdisciplinary, embodied and situated practice. His current research interests include approaches to group processes and distributed authorship, as well as psychoacoustics and the corporeality of sound. He also works as part of a team that co-leads Public Recordings, a Toronto based organization focused on interdisciplinary performance research. 

ANDREW HARWOOD (MTL) — INSTANT INSTINCT – ENTERING THE INTUITIVE ARENA OF THE UNKNOWN

March 1 to 5, 2021 – 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.)
$___ with the support of *Emploi-Québec (or $_____, non-eligible rate)
$____ drop-ins Mon.-Tue. unless full (or $____, non-eligible rate)
Open to artists of all disciplines / In [LANGUAGE]
Capacity: _ people, priority for full week attendance

This workshop invites us to honor our essence and become the masters of what we know and what we do. Each session serves to create containers for focused investigation, encouraging each person to engage in the dynamics of self-care and empathy for others. Working with the innate intelligence of the body and a curiosity for the unfolding moment, we behold and are with that which wants to emerge instinctively. An assortment of playful & artistic dance scores will allow us to play lightly/seriously with our know-how, our how-to-be and our not-knowing. These spontaneous movement structures will help us focus our attention, develop an awareness of inner/outer space, awaken our senses, harness our inventiveness, create familiarity, dig in to what is actually happening and stimulate our imagination as we improvise alone, in pairs and trios, in small groups and as one large ensemble. This will be a mixed level class, open to all levels of experience.

Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood (Montreal) is an internationally recognized pioneer and master teacher of contact improvisation and real time composition. He began his dance career in 1975 and for over forty-five years has dedicated himself to the research, education, development and dissemination of contact improvisation and compositional improvisation as sophisticated movement disciplines and performing art forms.He studied and performed with the founders of CI Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little. He has also performed with a host of exceptional dancers such as Peter Bingham, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Lin Snelling, Marc Boivin, Benoit Lachambre, Kirstie Simson and Lisa Nelson. He danced for the companies of Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Jo Lechay and Fulcrum, and performed with the dance collectives Discovery Bal, The Echo Case and the Improvisational Movement Fund. Passionate about teaching, he transforms his training in gymnastics, the Alexander Technique, Aikido, release technique, contemporary dance, yoga and various somatic practices into a personal language, which he has shared throughout the world since 1976. He was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacqueline Lemieux Award for artistic excellence in 2000.

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