INTIMACY: Bodies of Colour (Workshop)

Leader: PROF. JOHANNES BIRRINGER, (DAP-Lab) Brunel University of West London with Michele Danjoux

For this workshop, Birringer suggests a reflection on the work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (shown at Tate Modern, June-September 2007): "Oiticica moved from abstraction and 2D work to increasingly 3D works, sculptures, then boxes, installations, architectural models and social projects. His work of the 60s and 70s culminates in the Penetraveis and Perangolés series. In the late 70s, just prior to his premature death while in exile in New York, he created several installations called 'Quasi-Cinema' (audio visual installations for the audience-participants, based on his utopian and metaphysical principles of Vivencia and the Supra-Sensorial).

"The Perangolés have always attracted my attention, as they are 'wearables' (inhabitable fabrics, colours-in-action). I see them as extraordinary forerunners of our contemporary experiments with wearables and close-to-the-skin interfaces."

For INTIMACY we will invite the participants to explore the contemporary (technologically augmented and supported) wearable sensorial interface for performance, by playing with fabrics and cameras, self-portraits and animations of others, wearing cloth and special garments with sensors, touching upon the erotics of materials and feedbacks,  interacting in a tactile sensorial manner within the mediated environment (images, sounds, colours).

Friday, December 07, 2007 from 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM (GMT)

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INTIMACY

INTIMACY is a three-day digital and live art programme made to elicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between cutting edge artists, performers, leading scholars, respected researchers, creative thinkers and local community. A culturally urgent series of events, INTIMACY is designed to address a diverse set of responses to the notion of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance and as such, in life. Framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers, INTIMACY will feature workshops, seminars, performances, and a 1-day symposium at Goldsmiths College, Laban, and the Albany during December 7th-9th, 2007. Featuring performances, workshops, seminars and a symposium, INTIMACY invites scholars, researchers, artists and audiences to enable the interrogation and creative exploration of formal, aesthetic and affective modes of performing intimacy now. INTIMACY is co-directed and co-produced by: Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Researcher Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London; Sessional Lecturer Birkbeck FLL drp01mc@gold.ac.uk Rachel Zerihan PhD Researcher School of Arts, Roehampton University; Sessional Lecturer Brunel University. INTIMACY Board: * Prof. Johannes Birringer Chair in Drama and Performance Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel University of West London; Choreographer. * Hazel Gardiner Senior Project Manager AHRC ICT Methods Network. * Prof. Adrian Heathfield School of Arts, Roehampton University; Writer; Curator. * Prof. Janis Jefferies Artistic Director Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London; Director Constance Howard Centre in Textiles; Artist; Curator. * Gerald Lidstone Head of Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London. INTIMACY is supported by: * AHRC ICT Methods Network * Goldsmiths University of London * Knowledge East * Trinity Laban * The Albany * Home

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