Workshops at The Substation, 24 & 25 January 2015 - Saturday 24th January: CIRCUIT BENDING workshop by Kai Lam. - Sunday 25th January: PERFORMANCE ART workshop by Marta Moreno Muñoz Workshops fee: voluntary donation. Registration by email writing to: [email protected] Event: Singaporean Experimental Artists at The Unifiedfield AIR Programme theunifiedfield.org/archives/4294 - · Saturday 24th January, 13.00 – 17.00h: Circuit Bending workshop by Kai Lam. Kai Lam (aka Singlish Punk) is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in Sculpture. Kai Lam’s foray into aural works and sonic arts is a result of his extended practice in video, installation and performance art. The participants will need to come prepared and required to bring any numbers of sound producing toys / radio / musical instruments/ musical keyboards / usb speakers etc, as long as the objects are battery operated, they will be suitable for the workshop. The artist will give a brief introduction of circuit bending and begin work with the workshop participants on their machines. The workshop will mostly consist of finding sounds ‘spots’ and soldering knobs and switches onto the circuit boards. Students must bring these materials: sound producing machines (toys /radio/ instruments, etc), soldering iron / pen, etc… Optional: hot-glue gun, wire cutter. * All participants of the workshop will be invited to perform in an improvised jam session together with Kai Lam and their circuit-bent instruments at The Substation. - · Sunday 25th January, 13.00 – 17.00h : Performance art workshop by Marta Moreno Muñoz. Marta Moreno Muñoz co-founder and director of The Unifiedfield is a performance and video artist with a background in experimental theatre and other time-based arts. At The Unifiedfield we understand artistic practice as a vehicle that can transform life, our relation with ourselves, society, and the natural world by experimenting with our subjectivities, expanding the consciousness and therefore creating new existential scenarios. In performance art practice sometimes all the stored energies are released, thus facilitating the opening to new states of consciousness. Performance can play this role of de-conditioning us of our habitual mental processes allowing both the artist and the audience to discard learned models of perception and giving way to a number of new phenomena that otherwise can hardly be grasped with the rational conceptual structures. Taking on a process rather than goal oriented approach, in the proposed workshop we will focus through different activities in the development of intuition and introspection as fundamental elements of performance art. Concentrating more on the practical side of the subject, the aim of this workshop is not only the conceptualization of a time-based art work as it could be a live performance, happening, video-action or sound intervention but also the playful experimentation as part of the process of creation. Workshop description: · Reflection on the main elements and notions of performance art: time, space, presence, concept, process, context, non-representation and participation. · Reading of the diverse and open definitions given by artists working in performance art followed by a discussion of what experiences or knowledge the students previously had with performance art. · Activities based on the ‘instructions for performance’ by Yoko Ono, students will conceptualize new instructions in different groups. · Here and Now: In this exercise students are invited to cross the room as slowly as possible, being feeling fully aware their bodies in space and their relation to it. · Activity based on the game of the mystical trees of Yogyakarta: - ask yourself a fundamental question in regards your present creative process/ the current moment you are living- following your inner compass, develop a special technic to locate two particular spots on the ground- with your eyes closed try to walk in a straight line in between those two spots while focusing on your fundamental question. · Collective discussion about the processes generated during this session
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