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 SESSION 6: CHANCE

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

FRIDAY, 30 APRIL 2021

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SATURDAY, 1 MAY 2021

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SUNDAY, 2 MAY 2021

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Workshops

GROOVE AND MOVE …
SOFTEN AND CENTER (THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTIC FITNESS CLUB)
A MOVEMENT SESSION WITH
SUSANNE MARTIN

FRIDAY, 30 APRIL 2021
15:00 - 16:00 UTC

All states welcome: sloppy, fuzzy, tired, tensed… Have everything ready to be warm enough when laying on the floor and cool enough for silly hopping around. If you tend to knock over things, get them secured beforehand.

Susanne Martin’s Biography | SITE

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CHANCE AND RANDOMNESS
A WORKSHOP WITH
JEFF THOMPSON

SATURDAY, 1 MAY 2021
15:45 - 20:45 UTC

In this workshop, we will explore chance and randomness as tools for making art. Taking approaches from visual art, music, popular culture, science, and technology, we'll discuss the differences between chance, randomness, information, and entropy, and investigate the creative potential of letting go of artistic decisions and what happens when (to varying degrees) we remove the artist’s hand in favor of mechanisms out of our control.

1: "House of Dust" by Alison Knowles and James Tenney (1967)
2: "Dice Man" from "Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival" (1590)
3: "Clinamen" by Céleste Boursier Mougenot (2012)

Jeff Thompson’s Biography | SITE

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SENSE-ABILITY, RESPONSE-ABILITY, PLAY
A WORKSHOP WITH
SUSANNE MARTIN

SUNDAY, 2 MAY 2021
15:30 - 20:00 UTC

This workshop is a chance (or a challenge?) to jump into a body-, movement-, and dance-centered practice for a day. We will dive into sense-ability, response-ability, and play as core principles I work on and work with as a dance artist. We will explore themes, tasks, scores from my performing and teaching practice, present/perform the instantly composed results to each other. And we will reflect on wishes and possibilities for a deepened integration of your own sensing, responding or playful bodies into your respective artistic research practice.

Kinesthetic Empathy 2020 (10 min): https://vimeo.com/showcase/7265884/video/430978157
Retroperspective 2017 (4 min): https://vimeo.com/252129372

Susanne Martin’s Biography | SITE

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Public Talk

 A DEEP DIVE INTO CHANCE, RANDOMNESS, ORDER, AND ENTROPY
A TALK WITH JEFF THOMPSON

SATURDAY, 1 MAY 2021
15:00 - 15:45 UTC

Following a winding thread between the visual arts, music, mathematics, and computer science, this talk will trace the ways thinkers of all kinds have thought about order and chaos. We’ll look at examples ranging from Surrealist collages and the Situationist “dérive,” collaged audio and open-ended Fluxus performance scores, and the binary determinism of the computer and ways cryptographic researchers measure randomness. We’ll also consider Claude Shannon’s idea that the more random a message the more information it actually contains and how this idea of entropy loops around into extreme order.

Jeff Thompson’s Biography | SITE

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BODY ART RESEARCH – WHAT ARE WE PRACTICING?
A TALK WITH SUSANNE MARTIN

Sunday, 2 MAy 2021
15:00 - 15:30 UTC

Dr. Susanne Martin (Berlin) talks about her doings as dance-based performance maker and artistic researcher and traces the relationship between honing practice, performing dance and articulating knowledge. 

Susanne Martin’s Biography | SITE

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