Making Sense Lab

Making Sense Lab: Participativní performance Dotdot dash s Birgittou Hosea

Středa, 20. 11. 2024, 17.00 hodin,
UMPRUM: Námestí J. Palacha 80116 93 Praha 1
Setkáme se v recepci hlavní budovy UMPRUM
Akce se uskuteční i pro širokou veřejnost.

Setkáme se u Táborské Brány, Vyšehrad (Performance je krátká, doba trvání je 15 minut a bude se odehrávat venku.)

dotdot dash: dotdot dash je koncert vizuální hudby v režii Birgitty Hosea, kterou vytvářejí diváci pomocí laserových per a vlastních hlasů. Toto participativní, site-specific umělecké dílo využívá komunitní, kolektivní akce k rekultivaci noční městské krajiny. Účastníci, kteří se sejdou v rámci sborové spolupráce, jsou vedeni k tomu, aby prozkoumali možnosti tvorby značek pomocí světelných graffiti a zažili sílu svých vlastních hlasů. Představení orchestruje Hosea z náhodné partitury vytvořené chůzí s nohama pokrytýma barvou po notovém papíře.

dotdot dash: dotdot dash is a concert of visual music directed by Birgitta Hosea, but made by the audience with laser pens and their own voices. This participatory, site-specific artwork uses communal, collective action to reclaim the urban landscape at night. Coming together in a choral collaboration,participants are directed to explore the mark making possibilities of creating graffiti with light and to experience the power of their own voices. The performance is orchestrated by Hosea from a chance-based score made through walking with paint-covered feet over musical paper.

Bio: Professor Birgitta Hosea is an award-winning artist and Director of the Animation Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts. Previously, she was Head of Animation at the RCA (2016-18); Course Director of MA Character Animation (2000-15) and Research Leader in Performance (2011-4) at Central Saint Martins, UAL. With a background in both fine art and animation from studies at Glasgow School of Art and her PhD at Central Saint Martins, her practice bridges traditional and digital media through time-based drawing, experimental animation, performance and installation to re-conceptualise the notion of what it is to be ‘animate’. Often exploring themes of identity, memory and the body, her work has been exhibited at venues such as ASIFAKEIL, Vienna; Venice & Karachi Biennales; Oaxaca & Chengdu Museums of Contemporary Art; Hanmi Gallery, Seoul; National Gallery X, Centre for Recent Drawing, London; Hunan Museum, China; Gallery of Cinematic Arts, LA, Museum of Texas Tech, USA. She has 25 years+ of international curating and exhibiting experience, eg. Fission (co-curated with Drs ZHANG Xiaotao & LI Fei, 2022), Guangzho Provincial Museum, China, featured 44 international digital artists reaching 250,000 people. Amongst publications on drawing and experimental animation, her most recent book is Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2020) co-written with Foá, Grisewood and McCall.

Making sense lab is organised by Tereza Stehlikova, for any enquiries plese email: STEHLÍKOVÁ Tereza stehlikovat@vskk.cz

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ARCHIVE

This is an experimental space where students from University of Creative Communication, Prague, have a chance to work collaboratively, across disciplines, working towards a shared goal. The aim is to provide an opportunity to push boundaries of creativity through allowing open experimentation and cross-fertilisation. We invite guests: from musicians to practitioners in areas of arts, design and science, in order to inspire, provoke and stir up creative energies.

Our values are focused on:

• Experimentation
• Creative process
• Imagination
• Team work and collaboration
• Interdisciplinarity
• Flexibility a transferability of skills
• Technology versus embodiment
• Paying attention to all the senses

The programme is curated by Dr. Tereza Stehlikova, head of Visual Arts Department at VŠKK

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Echo Drawing I: Resistance

Smell Lab

14. 3. 2022 (room 303)
Our guests: HAENKE

Empowering people with plant knowledge. Our aim is to raise awareness about the roles of plants in our lives, with particular focus on medicine and human health. We do so by designing educational content, public space installations, practical workshops or community outreach, working with people from various social and cultural backgrounds all over the world. By using arts, culture, and digital media as a vehicle for social change, we create impactful projects that result in better understanding of the natural world.

Workshop focus: In this workshop, we will explore selected medicinal plant species, its individual parts (roots, leaves, fruits or flowers), with particular focus on their olfactory properties – a defining aspect of essential oils also known as one of the secondary plant metabolites. What could be their potential for creative practice? From basic visual plant identification to associating smells to memories, the aim of this experience is to discover plants from underexplored angles.

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SENSESCAPES: Touch & Vision

Image: Tactile workshop, London, 2017

Making Sense Lab: 14. 2. 2022, 18.30 – 20.30

,,Jestliže se rozhoduješ, čemu dát přednost, zda pohledu oka nebo zážitku těla, dej vždy přednost tělu, protože hmat je starší smysl než zrak a jeho zkušenost je fundamentálnější. Navíc oko je v současné audiovizuální civilizaci značně unavené a „zkažené“. Zkušenost těla je autentičtější, nezatížená dosud estetizací.” (Jan Švankmajer, Desatero) 

The next MSL will explore the relationship between vision and touch, through a series of creative exercises involving sense of touch, as well as is translation into drawing and gestural sculpture. The next lab session promises to help you to unleash your creativity by becoming free from the habitual way of perceiving the everyday and tapping into the hidden resources of the subconscious. It will be the perfect anti-dote to our “screen life” and the pandemic (which further stigmatises touch). In the absence of sight, touch transforms the everyday into an adventure for the imagination.

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SYNAESTHESIA

Havel’s playing in Antony Gormley’s Studio, London

We are launching our experimental space, run at the University of Creative Communication in Prague. The first session will take place on Monday 6th December, 2021, at 18.30 in room 303.

SPECIAL GUESTS: Musicians Irena and Vojta Havel

Irena and Vojtech Havel are world-renowned composers and multi-instrumentalists, known mainly as players on the ancient stringed instrument Viola De Gamba. They compose music for films, theatre and dance performances. Havels were featured in more than 30 countries and collaborated on many international multimedia projects.

Synaesthesia, the neurological condition that causes a blending of the senses – colours can be connected to letters and numbers, smells and tastes to music or touch to vision – has long been linked to creativity: famous synaesthetes include Sibelius and more recently Pharrell Williams and Lady Gaga. (The Guardian, 2014)

In this session we will explore aspects of synaesthesia. The evening will involve watching early abstract film work, as well as listening and responding to live music (its rhythm and texture), visually, through drawing.