MAP Research Exchange
I recently took part in a research exchange, awarded by MAP, at the YMCA in Christchurch.
Movement Art Practice (MAP) is a not-for-profit organisation that nurtures the study of movement in New Zealand from a contemporary dance perspective. MAP's driving vision is to provide professional and audience development for independent artists. Research Exchange provides space for artists to develop ideas and methodologies outside of a commission, performance or institutional framework.
During this exchange I researched the ways in which our bodies react in different environments, and how objects and spaces can author & conjure certain movements and responses from us. I use these tools - objects, spaces - to provoke and navigate journeys of movement.
I experimented mostly with:
a) object movement - swinging ropes by attaching them to motors
b) creating and thwarting spaces by erecting lines of builders line
c) calling people to action with a ringing mobile phone
I also posted a blog every week, presented a Research Performance/Open Studio, and facilitated a Movement lab.
Christchurch Series #15: Julieanne Eason
July 18 - August 19 2016
Movement Lab: Tuesday Aug 9, 6-9pm
Research Performance: Fri August 19, 7pm
Christchurch YMCA
Movement Art Practice (MAP) is a not-for-profit organisation that nurtures the study of movement in New Zealand from a contemporary dance perspective. MAP's driving vision is to provide professional and audience development for independent artists. Research Exchange provides space for artists to develop ideas and methodologies outside of a commission, performance or institutional framework.
During this exchange I researched the ways in which our bodies react in different environments, and how objects and spaces can author & conjure certain movements and responses from us. I use these tools - objects, spaces - to provoke and navigate journeys of movement.
I experimented mostly with:
a) object movement - swinging ropes by attaching them to motors
b) creating and thwarting spaces by erecting lines of builders line
c) calling people to action with a ringing mobile phone
I also posted a blog every week, presented a Research Performance/Open Studio, and facilitated a Movement lab.
Christchurch Series #15: Julieanne Eason
July 18 - August 19 2016
Movement Lab: Tuesday Aug 9, 6-9pm
Research Performance: Fri August 19, 7pm
Christchurch YMCA
An exercise with objects.
a) Put some things in a room. Go to each object. Ask it these questions. Ask them with your body. Poke and prod, displace and explore. Listen.
Question:
What have you been made to do?
What do you ask me to do?
Where are you, why are you here?
How do you work, what are you made of?
How do you want me to treat you?
How can I notice you more?
How can I look at you in a different way?
What else can you do, that is not your main function or objective?
b) Then, ask yourself:
How can I give this one character?
How can I accentuate or negate it’s functions?
Can I team it with some other objects to bring out new features?
When I place it in such a way, or pair it in such a way, or move it in a such a way - what is it's Call to Action, what does it ask us to do?
c) Then, ask yourself:
What would this experience of the Call to Action be like for the audience?
How is the CTA interactive?
Can I team the object with some of the other objects to invite an interaction?
d) Then, ask yourself:
Is this at all interesting?
e) If it is not interesting, leave it. If it is interesting, then concentrate on how the CTA experience involves the audience in these four steps:
navigation
participation
conversation
collaboration
f) Then, invite audience to experience the CTA. Notice:
Do they respond to the CTA? If not, why not?
If so, how?
g) Then, refine the CTA around those four steps again
e) If the CTA of the object would be improved with assistance:
imagine what the objects could do
figure out how to make them do that
pull things apart,
animate them,
mash them together,
electrify them
attach sensors to them,
light them,
program them,
duplicate them.
a) Put some things in a room. Go to each object. Ask it these questions. Ask them with your body. Poke and prod, displace and explore. Listen.
Question:
What have you been made to do?
What do you ask me to do?
Where are you, why are you here?
How do you work, what are you made of?
How do you want me to treat you?
How can I notice you more?
How can I look at you in a different way?
What else can you do, that is not your main function or objective?
b) Then, ask yourself:
How can I give this one character?
How can I accentuate or negate it’s functions?
Can I team it with some other objects to bring out new features?
When I place it in such a way, or pair it in such a way, or move it in a such a way - what is it's Call to Action, what does it ask us to do?
c) Then, ask yourself:
What would this experience of the Call to Action be like for the audience?
How is the CTA interactive?
Can I team the object with some of the other objects to invite an interaction?
d) Then, ask yourself:
Is this at all interesting?
e) If it is not interesting, leave it. If it is interesting, then concentrate on how the CTA experience involves the audience in these four steps:
navigation
participation
conversation
collaboration
f) Then, invite audience to experience the CTA. Notice:
Do they respond to the CTA? If not, why not?
If so, how?
g) Then, refine the CTA around those four steps again
e) If the CTA of the object would be improved with assistance:
imagine what the objects could do
figure out how to make them do that
pull things apart,
animate them,
mash them together,
electrify them
attach sensors to them,
light them,
program them,
duplicate them.