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DECOMPOSE with Carrie Ahern/Andrea Haenggi
This three hour Workshop suggests a space for the participants where they can experience decomposing while alive, allowing release of energy to find connection to the ecosystem around them and gaining a level of awareness. Inspired by the "Body Farm" Ahern will take the participants through the actual stages of their own body decomposing. Haenggi will relate and interrelate the body's decomposition to that of organic plant matter with inspiration of cuban-american performance artist Ana Mendieta's work "Siluetas". Bodies are, after all, merely forms of energy, trapped in lumps of matter waiting to be released into the wider universe. What will happen if we move our bodies alone and together by composing movement scores that allows us to experience the process of decomposition? "To decompose is to live too." -Samuel Beckett
The workshop includes observation, touch, move and write/draw.
Please bring a notebook. No previous movement experience required.
This movement field workshop is for everyone that is interested in the impermanence of the body and organic matter - it touches the fields of dance, somatics, ecology, visual art, choreography and archeology.
Artists Bios:
Carrie Ahern and her company Present Pariah Inc. use the medium of the body to investigate spaces of taboo. She has a reputation for extensive research for each project combined with an ability to make viewers deeply uncomfortable and comfortable simultaneously. Current projects include: 'Borrowed Prey' the interdisciplinary death diptych performed in a butcher shop and a cemetery, 'The Art of Burial'-her fantasy burial event, and 'Swaddling' and 'Xenia Redux' for 1067 PacificPeople's- Alternative Pleasure: Pop-up Gesture Store. She has been of part of NYC's performance world since 1995.
http://www.carrieahern.com/
andrea haenggi is a dance-based interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer, improviser and teacher. She is the catalyst of the ephemerally activist driven performative art project 1067 PacificPeople in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Her artistic practice looks into power, exchange, value, feminism and ecology in the digital age. Her projects have been presented in New York at Queens Museum, World Financial Center Arts & Events, Dance Theater Workshop and MASS MoCA, in North Adams; and abroad at Tanzhaus Zurich, New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and SPAN in Lagos, Nigeria, among others. Haenggi has received the Swiss Canton Solothurn Dance Price in 2008 and has taught somatic-dance workshops in the USA, China, Nigeria, and CH. She is on the faculty at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. www.1067pacificpeople.nyc and www.andreahaenggi.net
ABOUT 1067 PacificPeople
1067 PacificPeople is a body-based interdisciplinary art work. We comprise a classless class engaged in danceless dance and artless art. We find the political in the unpolitical, the unpolitical in the political. We find the love-less in love and love in the loveless. We practice dialectical immaterialism. We act in urgency. We are a tantric connection.
1067pacificpeople@nyc
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Location1067 PacificPeople (View)
1067 Pacific Str.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
United States
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