VI - VestAndPage + Andrigo&Aliprandi 2019
DIS-SENSUS
JOINT PERFORMANCE SUMMER CLASS
5 to 14 June 2019
C32 performing art work space, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy
With a final public presentation on Friday, June 14, 2019
Facilitated by VestAndPage & Andrigo&Aliprandi. With the participation of Preema Nazia Andaleeb (BG), Kelvin Atmadibrata (ID), Sabrina Bellenzier (IT), Leman Sevda Daricioglu (TR), Krisztina Fazekas-Kielbassa (HR), Danielle Freakley (AU), Sharon G Flynn (AU), Rym Hayouni (TU), Pete Kennedy (UK), Lauren Kelly (IR), Carla Kienz (DE), Alicia Kremser (DE), Helena Kushnir Tochka Maim (IS), Danielo Lemmer (SR), Cecilia Lentini (IT), La Cherry Lill (CN), Carol Montealegre (CO), Dimitra Nikolopoulou (GR), Randa Reda (CA), Paul Regan (IR), Joseph Morgan Shofield (UK), Sandra Stanionyte (LV), Sina Stolp (DE), Christiana Anna Trutiak (CA), Yadanar Win (MY) and Samantha Zanardo (IT).
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The artist duos VestAndPage and Andrigo & Aliprandi merge their unique pedagogical practices in a joint immersive performance class "DIS-SENSUS" as part of the ART WEEK | Workshop Series. The intensive summer class takes place on the campus at C32 performing art work space in Venice, situated in the heart of Forte Marghera, a historical park facing the western bank of the Venice lagoon. A final public sharing of the workshop will be presented on Thursday, June 14 and documentation of the workshop will become part of the archive of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK. The joint laboratory process will revolve around a range of techniques reflecting the two duos art practices and methodologies, VestAndPage and Andrigo & Aliprandi. With the assistance of Francesca Carol Rolla, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Sara Simeoni and Marcel Sparmann.
DIS-SENSUS
Societal systems of reference in which artists act and operate and to which they respond through their art making are ever-changing. In the contemporary global context, opportunistic ways of thinking are continuing to claim strategies and stages of development, to fuel impulsive, self-protective, ego-centric structures and behavior. Notwithstanding, the ingraining of conscientiousness, individualism, autonomy, and integration is actively moving forward, ubiquitously and intimately woven into the fabric of our collective existence. A growing freeing from oppressive demands goes along with a quality of synthesis, confrontation, and recognition within the plurality of individuals, and the evolutionary formation of societies.
In this intensive Summer Class, the artist duos VestAndPage and Andrigo&Aliprandi merge their performance methodologies to enquire into and strengthen a poetics of toleration, understanding, and acknowledgment of divergent thinking and its conceptual complexity. The aim is to highlight differences, ambiguities, and diversities as antidotes to the staling normative, both within the process of art-making and from a psycho-social perspective. We will work to embrace polarity and multiple facets through a training aiming to unfold the complication of an increasingly intricated world. Thinking multi-perspectively, we inquire into ourselves and our positions and take the viewpoints, stances, and needs of multiple social groups into consideration. Here, learning and togetherness are understood as unavoidable, and the unattainable as a possibility. Broad empathy towards oneself and the others favor the cherishing of individuality, and honor self-actualization to work out identities that reconcile to their destiny. We look at a merging with the world through art processes, where we no more hold onto a status quo, but engage in the flow of existence always at stake, by inquisitively inhabiting inner conflicts through performance making. In an alternation between complexity and simplicity, or construct and essence, the intermingling of different states of consciousness is possible. Thinking and acting in time cycles and historical dimensions we live our contemporaneity openly and progressively, all accepting aspects of one another.
How to sense –
How to come in touch with our difference?
Where is the source of performing a difference and what it is directed towards?
How to dissent –
Is difference something intimate, learned, imposed, or acquired?
How to transform a possible difference in art?
Now imagine life. What does it look like?