International Exchange Program Dance4 and Dance Ireland
Mawson-Raffalt + Faulder-Mawson
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Research series: SILENCE + ACTIVITY
01-14 May 2011
Informal showing
Thursday 12th MAY @ 7pm
Choreographic Installation Artist, Writer, Director, Dance & Performance Artist
URSULA MAWSON-RAFFALT, and Painter, Light, Sound, Video and Media Artist ANTHONY J. FAULDER-MAWSON continue their research series "SILENCE + ACTIVITY",
a collaborative cross- & interdisciplinary project that investigates the border territory between the disciplines, explores spatial relationships and also experiments with blurring the boundaries between performance, exhibition and lecture.
Different manifestations will take place between January and July 2011 in a series of European residency locations setting in motion a multitude of possibilities, variations, events and contexts.
During the Dance4 residency the artists will focus on the EXPERIENCE of an Art Environment, aiming “to give, inspire and transform”. Their research will continue with the development of their innovative, flexible, sustainable and economic model for research, production and presentation defining shifting modes of operation for interdisciplinary work.
Whilst working in the Dance4 studio, using their technical facilities and sharing the working space, the artists will concentrate on completing a processed cycle of work. In accordance with their multi layered and interwoven activities they will prepare, write, train, rehearse, build up and finally install a “sacred environment” in which the creative forces can flow freely.
A small audience will be invited to an informal presentation to experience intimacy, direct contact, (self) reflection and dialogue.
Through a process of abstract and complex thinking with the emphasis on transcending artistic boundaries the artists will pose critical questions about the function of the arts in the 21st Century and its artistic/contextual/economic challenges.
For example:
1) How can we contribute to a wider understanding of dance or painting and the making of art?
2) How can we refer to choreography as an artistic platform that can embrace different artistic backgrounds welcoming the challenge of multi disciplinary thinking along with a contextual exploration of new and innovative approaches to choreographic practice?
3) How can we open up to a critical dialogue which seeks to redefine (in the broadest terms) both choreography and painting as creative disciplines that are fully capable of reflecting the specific needs of the 21st century and which can be instrumental in promoting the further development of ephemeral works such as live performance art or light works?
4) How can we establish a level of understanding that can embrace free thinking and that can help make the work more accessible through a creative dialogue with the audience?
5) How can we engage the audience in the experience of familiarising the unfamiliar?
6) How can we create a flexible, creatively innovative and economic model for research, production and presentation?
7) How can we help to secure the future of experimental and innovative art?
Our INTENTION, therefore, is:
1. To physically explore and relate a new to the progression of multi dimensional and multi contextual works as a response to a new type of work and a new way of working which:
- although sometimes difficult to categorize is nonetheless important to the evolution of art and art-making
- is better equipped to deal with the specific needs of the 21st century
- can share the aesthetic of a profound, sustainable, economic, integral and philosophic identity.
2. To observe the shifting moods of an avant-garde work in meeting the challenge of assimilating the needs of new contexts
3. to explore a wider understanding of the inter/cross disciplinary approach guided by the principle that “interdisciplinarity” is “a defining characteristic of contemporary art practice” and “a necessary prerequisite for those artists who will shape the future of creative practice” (Wikipedia)
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February : Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ire
March: Brunel University School of Arts, West London
April: Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ire
May: Dance4, Nottingham, UK
June: Schloss Broellin, Germany
July: Chapter, Cardiff, UK/Wales
the image: a still from the Cardiff variation of "ephemeral silence or the universe of D.A.N.T.E." copyright ) + ( = aO
and then finally...........................................
at the end of the day
at the very end of a very long day
set 1 north north east
...........................failed
but getting closer now..............................................................
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