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SESSION 4: PERSONAE

Note: breaks are not reflected in the schedule which follows.

FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021

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SATURDAY, 27 FEB 2021

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SUNDAY, 28 FEB 2021

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Workshops

WITH THE BODY
MOVEMENT SESSIONS WITH
KATE HILLIARD

FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2020
15:00 - 16:30 UTC

At this moment of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been forced to consider the scale of time in ways that are new and challenging. It’s apparent that we are with ourselves more than ever. The absence of togetherness and our social pause means that our body matter is more often acknowledged on screen than in the flesh — this creates disparate understandings of the pace of our lives. Digital communication can leave one feeling fragmented. To overcome our new pixelated identity, we need to sigh, see, hold, take in air, and trace with our tongues. With the Body is a workshop experience comprised of breathing technique, core centring, and movement meditation. The class additionally considers compositional elements from Overlie, Bogart and Landau’s Viewpoints. This preparatory somatic practice aims to encourage makers to create with a greater awareness of their bodies. Let’s wake up the physical self, so that we can enter into our work feeling attuned to our surroundings and embodied in our conversations. If we stop taking note of our bodies in space and time — and in relationship to others, we will falter.

KATE HILLIARD’S BIOGRAPHY | SITE

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PERSONAE AND THE PATHOLOGICAL SELVES
A WORKSHOP WITH
JEAN MARIE CASBARIAN

SUNDAY, 28 FEB 2021
15:00 - 20:00

“There are more I’s than I myself” so said Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Writing under the guise of more than seventy-five distinct authors in The Fictions of the Interlude, Pessoa goes on to say “To pretend is to know ourselves.” This workshop will explore the various ways in which the life of fiction might be roused, creating characters that oftentimes almost silently emerge in our practice and artworks. As a way to investigate both the true and imagined self, we will adopt the strategies of imitation and invention as a way to coax these characters to come out and play. As we dive into ambiguity, historical myths, gender roles, and the fantastic we will discover how research begins to percolate through the act of merely being human. We will look at a variety of artists and writers whose work explores the idea of fiction and false personae including, Claude Cahun, Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Duchamp, Walid Raad and the Atlas Group, Ilya Kabakov, Joan Fontcuberta, Michael Ondaatge, Keith Waldrop, Andrea Fraser, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Eleanor Antin. Personal assignments will be developed through a process of writing and visual work in and out of class.

Jean Marie Casbarian’s Biography | SITE

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Public Talk

MEMORY AS PRACTICE
A TALK WITH
JEAN MARIE CASBARIAN

Saturday, 27 Feb - SUNDAY, 28 FEB 2021
20:00 - 20:30 UTC

Memory as Practice lies in the reinterpretation of memories and the loss and longing that occurs in the process of trying to reconstruct them. In my attempts to interrogate the source of my own memory, I listen for the gaps, sometimes leaving them be as fragments. Other times, I might fill them in with the possibility of illusion and fiction, questioning the philosophy and physics of time and space. I make no distinction between my life and my artistic practice. The two intersect and collide, eventually landing in a place of remembrance through direct experience. It’s during these more subtle moments that the memories ricochet back, dissolving into the hallucinations of something barely recognized.

Jean Marie Casbarian’s Biography | SITE

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