Julia Rubies
15-16 August
I propose a sharing of questions and practices around the finding of ‘personal space’ as a speculative practice within the artistic ecosystem.
The research I am starting comes out of wanting to find a different balancing act between being in relation to others (the many bodies we dance through, texts, influences…) and being with oneself - as well as complicating this apparent dichotomy. It is a reflection on the systemic tendency of solo artists conducting individual researches whilst also feeling the need to belong, reference and continue to give certain representations as modes of self-inscription. I ask about how to create a ‘personal place’ (that doesn’t have to be meaningful) but that also attends to an artistic sustainability.
These questions are not to be asked on the level of constructing a more solid positioning or fixed artistic voice, but a matter of making space for seeing oneself as a context and attend to the multiplicities we carry inside of ourselves, the places and situations that speak through us.
Through conversation and practice, I would like to activate these topics on the level of studio practice/reflection, as well as through a frame of early creation/performative action.I start this research out of a place of wanting to attend to personal tendencies in a different way, and invite you to join me. I propose these questions to a horizontal space from the position of a co-explorer.
Structure of the exchange/sharing:
DAY 1:
Morning:
3 hour session to share the questions, make them common and explore a couple of practices.
Throughout the day: As other activities are happening, we find two moments to meet during the day (for 15 minutes). For example, 15:00 - 15:15 and 19:00-19:15. During those 15 minutes we will chose or explain a ‘task’ to do for the following hours as the participants go on with their day. This way the practices extend on other surfaces than studio practice.
DAY 2:
Morning:
3 hour session where we collect experiences from the earlier day, continue to work on practices together, and extend them into an early and possibly speculative making process.
Throughout the day:
As other activities are happening, we find two moments to meet during the day (for 15 minutes). For example, 15:00 - 15:15 and 19:00-19:15. During those 15 minutes we will chose or explain a ‘task’ to do for the following hours as the participants go on with their day. This way the practices extend on other surfaces than studio practice.
The research I am starting comes out of wanting to find a different balancing act between being in relation to others (the many bodies we dance through, texts, influences…) and being with oneself - as well as complicating this apparent dichotomy. It is a reflection on the systemic tendency of solo artists conducting individual researches whilst also feeling the need to belong, reference and continue to give certain representations as modes of self-inscription. I ask about how to create a ‘personal place’ (that doesn’t have to be meaningful) but that also attends to an artistic sustainability.
These questions are not to be asked on the level of constructing a more solid positioning or fixed artistic voice, but a matter of making space for seeing oneself as a context and attend to the multiplicities we carry inside of ourselves, the places and situations that speak through us.
Through conversation and practice, I would like to activate these topics on the level of studio practice/reflection, as well as through a frame of early creation/performative action.I start this research out of a place of wanting to attend to personal tendencies in a different way, and invite you to join me. I propose these questions to a horizontal space from the position of a co-explorer.
Structure of the exchange/sharing:
DAY 1:
Morning:
3 hour session to share the questions, make them common and explore a couple of practices.
Throughout the day: As other activities are happening, we find two moments to meet during the day (for 15 minutes). For example, 15:00 - 15:15 and 19:00-19:15. During those 15 minutes we will chose or explain a ‘task’ to do for the following hours as the participants go on with their day. This way the practices extend on other surfaces than studio practice.
DAY 2:
Morning:
3 hour session where we collect experiences from the earlier day, continue to work on practices together, and extend them into an early and possibly speculative making process.
Throughout the day:
As other activities are happening, we find two moments to meet during the day (for 15 minutes). For example, 15:00 - 15:15 and 19:00-19:15. During those 15 minutes we will chose or explain a ‘task’ to do for the following hours as the participants go on with their day. This way the practices extend on other surfaces than studio practice.
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