What to affirm? What to perform?
Research/Open lab: 'versehen' ('endow') An inter-media-related, historioclastic, avant-garde investigation in the performing spaces of dance and choreography.
As part of the two-year East-West Project "What to affirm? What to perform?"—in cooperation with the Allianz Kulturstiftung in Munich, Center for Drama Art in Zagreb (CDU), Centrul Naţional al Dansului in Bucharest (CNDB), Maska in Ljubljana, and Tanzquartier Wien in Vienna – Tanzquartier Wien staged a research lab on March 8th, 2008, in collaboration with CORPUS.
Publishing of the texts and materials of the Research/Open lab
All texts and materials of the Research/Open lab have been and will be published consecutively at the sites of CORPUS (see links at the blue infobox "Further information" on the right side). A review of the research lab is also available in the introduction text of these materials.
The 'Inadvertent' Leave Out...
While the East European partners reconstruct their unwritten avant-garde history of dance, Vienna analogously investigated what was inadvertently left out of the traditional historiography. Where in the avant-garde of cinema, theater, visual arts, music-and-literary performances and architecture do we recognize choreographic strategies able to endow history with a new inter-media and trans-media-related standard? This research lab posed challenging questions: What possibilities exist for triggering an ideological change of standard toward an expanded dance historiography?
Illuminating Obscured Datum Lines
On this occasion, CORPUS and Tanzquartier Wien invited guests from various art and theoretical fields to a shared reflecting process, methodically launched with investigations on the use of improvised impulses and reaching as far as the rigidity of formalism, at the same time revealing an exciting area of study in which cinematic, musical, theatrical, visual, and architectural applications can be read as expressions of dance and choreography. Here the accepted course of action is to recover moments of dance and choreography sealed away in layers of art history and illuminate invisible or barely visible datum lines. In the process, the conducted research concentrated on the avant-garde of the twentieth century while reaching as far as current models of artistic practice.
Participants:
Klemens Gruber (A), Nicole Haitzinger (A), Yvonne Hardt (D), Jack Hauser (A), Sabina Holzer (A), Elke Krasny (A), Fritz Ostermayer (A), Helmut Ploebst (A), Werner Rappl (A), Georg Schöllhammer (A), Miško Šuvaković (SRB), Gesa Ziemer (CH).
Further information about the project "What to affirm? What to perform?"
