“Performance Architectures, Wearables & Gestures of Participation”*
Brunel University London / Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
*http://metabody.eu/imf-2016-london/ <http://metabody.eu/imf-2016-london/>*
Thursday, 7 April: Symposium 16:oo – 2o:oo
Friday and Saturday, April 8- 9, 2016
Call for submissions and enrolment in artistic–research workshop &
symposium, followed by performances, exhibitions and screenings, and
training classes in immersion performance
Please send abstracts (300 words plus bio) or proposals for installations,
provocations, film, or performance, to
Johannes Birringer
johannes.birringer@brunel.ac.uk
The context for this international workshop, the fifth Artaud Forum held at
Brunel Unversity, is the collaborative European project “Metabody” which
works to redefine bodies in media, performance and design. Over the past
few years, ‘Metabody’ has developed new architectures and immersive
environments which behave like living organisms that have an auditory,
visual, and tactile sensory quality, with subtly changing states and
affordances, they can be worn and breathed, felt and imagined, transported
and taken off.
We invite participants to join us and work with these concepts of
integrative tactile experience, kinetic atmospheres, multiperspectival
space, and unconscious perception.
‘Metabody’ counteracts dominant technologies and their prevalent tendency
to negate differences by reducing bodies and movements to prescribed forms
in current surveillance culture. ‘Metabody’ emphasizes openness, and
indeterminacy of embodied expressions as a key factor for a sustainable
society. This project also foregrounds the need for a new politics. The
workshop & performance laboratory probes troubling interpretations of the
increasing unrestrainment of capital, and capitalism’s impact on all
social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in a shared
developed world now expanded by massive migration and refugee movement. The
sustainability of democracy is an urgent theme for all those in the
performing arts/creative fields becoming intensely aware of the
multiplication of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures,
diasporas) and the tightening of our bodies into technological
environments. This is a call for peripheral perception in existential
experience.
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Our theatre and studio spaces will be available for physical and conceptual
workshop encounters over a period of three days (Thursday through Saturday,
April 7-9), with prior lab and tech phases Monday through Wednesday, also
possuibly icludng an e-stitch/textile workshop, followed by public
performances, exhibitions, screenings, and urban situations on Friday and
Saturday.
An enrollment fee s necessary to cover costs for technical arrangements.
The fee for the three-day public event is £ 75 (£ 60 concession) for the
whole, or £ 30 (£ 20 concession) per day.
Accommodations can be booked at Brunel’s Lancaster Suites Hotel / Brunel
University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH. Tel. +44 (0) 1895 268006 / email:
lancaster-suite@brunel.ac.u