Embodied Architecture: PROXIMITIES Performance/Exhibition - Call for Participants
Tuesday, Sep 20, 20168 PM - 9 PMEDT
| 25 East 13th street, 2nd floor
New York, NY, USRelated
Embodied Architecture: PROXIMITIES
We are currently looking for 57 people (training is NOT required) to take part in PROXIMITIES - the performance which is going to be shown on November 4th at 6 pm in Aronson Gallery in New York City. Please see below the description of the performance.
We are holding an information session this Tuesday at 25 E 13th Street, 2nd floor studio at 8pm. Please call 979-571-4301 if any problem finding it or getting into the building.
Documentation of the dress rehearsal and opening night will be exhibited/projected in the gallery with a series of mixed media drawings from November 8 - 13th.
In case you are interested, but can't come to the info session this tuesday, it is not a problem and we can explain and assign a rehearsal day on a phone or in personal meeting. Everyone will be credited for their involvement and it will be a lot of fun!
PLEASE NOTE! The commitment is:
(3x) 2 hour rehearsals on weekends in October / November (time/date tbd)
(1x) Dress rehearsal / video recording (November 5th time tbd)
(1x) Opening night performance (November 4th 6PM-8PM)
(1x) One hell of an afterparty (tbd)
Please don't hesistate to contact Yuliya or Lindsey if any questions:
The density of our global population is increasing at a parallel rate to the digital advancements that physically disconnect us. Despite an increased spatial closeness, our ability to transport out of the present moment and into the virtual ether, places this current condition at the forefront of critical research. By removing the technologies and spatial constructs that aid in our docility and disconnect, this project aspires to amplify the experience of sharing compressed space. Such close encounters are profound in their ability to establish camaraderie and a communal sense of support; however they are frequently avoided to aid in the maintenance of personal space, normative behaviour and autonomy. Through an exploration of the capacity for physical bodies to generate spaces of connectedness, we hope to re-ignite critical discourse and interdisciplinary exchange.
Audience is placed in a situation when it is outnumbered by performers by many times. As the guests move among clusters of bodies, they will encounter varying sensations triggered by a multiplicity of choreographed physical states and in direct closeness to performers. Shivering, stillness, and other varying displays of physical movement will be experienced with a rare clarity and proximity.
Embodied architecture: PROXIMITIES is conceived by Yuliya Savelyeva and Lindsey Dieter collaboration, and it is grounded in paralleled aspirations between their graduate thesis projects at Parsons The New School for Design.
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