My practice, my research
my practices
Practices in my everyday life that are not work but inform work in content and are interrelated to work (tend to do work in-between or during my everyday life practices).
imagining what to cook
going to the supermarket
cooking
taking care of my son
helping with school issues
taking care of
making conversations, reading, playing with him
taking him to activities
taking to parties, to the doctor, to activities
taking care of
work with groups- thinking, writing, moving, conversing
In general I am interested to create the necessary conditions for communication to take place.
so I ask: ..."How do we communicate?" But this question can be asked seriously only if we dismiss all "theories of communication", continuity and a transfer of messages. It is not a question of establishing rules for communication, it is a question of understanding before all else that in "communication" what takes place is an exposition: finite existence exposed to finite existence, co-appearing before it and with it."... ("The Inoperative Community" Jean-Luc Nancy, preface p. xl p.4)
kontά group
preparing ways of creating conversations(communication maybe? or togetherness , being in common, not communion)
looking into subjects that will take the communication further
looking into ways of forming experiments in space every week(experiments with the body in relation to the subjects discussed)
documenting conversations and body experiments, reviewing the material and brainstorming about next week (sharing my thoughts with two of the collaborators to get a first feedback. then open it up for discussion within the three of us before we present it to the group)
writing to the blog sporadically( a co-writing space)
finding space, writing proposals to put the group in different contexts (theaters, dancing schools, experimental spaces etc.)
being there physically every time , reviewing the material on my own.
terasse ensemble
giving movement workshops to the group
participating in conversations and creating ideas with the director and a group member, on how we proceed with the creation of material for the making of a performance in june 2018.
trop cher to share
on and off collaboration with the group on a research project related to the Greek identity of one of its members.
(performances)
performances
making performances based on the material I have researched, solo or collaborative
(workshops)
movement workshops/classes
classes for adults or adults and children that aim to help people reflect and understand their bodies by using diverse exercises (writing, moving, thinking, reading etc)
my research
(aim, questions, concepts, methods, results, reflection)
Aim?
To connect with other people, to bring people together, to share with other people, to create intimacy within a group of people, to care, and take care for each other in a group.
Questions?
How to use elements from the performing arts, psychoanalysis, science and/or politics, in order to better understand what is needed for “in-between”, “non-spaces” to be revealed on stage and in life.
in-between (alternative ways that overpass dichotomy)
alternative : as good as, or good enough as (Winnikot)
maybe alternative is not something that is "as good as " but something that is an alternative to the mainstream. So, I am trying to find ways that are alternative to the mainstream way. They could be better or worse alternatives, this is not something that I am preoccupied with, as long as they provide other ways to the mainstream way, they are considered good enough for me.
mainstream
ˈmeɪnstriːm/
noun
1.
the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional.
performing arts
psychoanalysis
science
politics
borrowing tools, ways, methods from the aforementioned fields in order to create alternative ways of looking at things.
1) How to use institutions and systems in order to develop a sustainable practice in researching and performance making.
2) How can I keep the small, the intimate, the personal, in the way the work is done among people involved, and in the way I approach the audience.
"How can I find ways to relate/connect my work to artistic institutions and systemic networks of support, by preserving, (or by not losing), a small, intimate, experimental character, in the way the work is done (method) , among the people involved, in the choice of venues that the work is presented, and in the way the audience is included".
How to connect different parts of my practice to my research?
Research as performance making
Research as performance making as self-sustaining activity(putting it in the market)
Major practical questions that relate to barriers I face at the moment
1. How the research becomes sustainable 2. How to connect it with the performance making work
3. How to include professionals needed each time in the making(performers, dramaturgs, dancers etc).
Here I seem to have two problems:
a. financial (how to pay them)
b. spatial (how to meet if we are all in different countries)
Maybe a solution to the second problem would be:
How to create an online "studio" that will resemble the real studio, in which the collaborators can meet to research and rehearse when we are not in the same country
Methods
By bringing questions and notions on the table that are related to the interests of people involved in the research. (Up to now we have worked mostly around existential and identity issues, femininity issues, issues of power)
Creating Conversations
Creating Movement experiments (who do I include? collaborators and or audience?)
Creating a Writing practice (shared practice or alone?)
performances
workshops
discussions