"The power of Community"
Keywords: community, sisterhood, group identity, collectivity, mutualisation, cooperation, collaboration and co-creation practices instead of competition, sharing
research
Participants are invited to experiment through the mind (discussion, debate, creative writing…) and the body (movement, dance, performance, rituals…) the power of community, explore how different models of collaborations, cooperations, and sharing can be used as political tools of resistance, learn about their engagements as citizens, artists and activists, create meaningful and impactful pieces, choreographies, actions, and social experiences. They will be introduced to the topics of interactive-, participatory-, relational-, cooperative-, activist-, and community-art, as well as social choreography.
During the class, we will trace the history of different forms of collaborations, cooperations, social and emotional communities. We will discuss the experience of be part of a community or be rejected by one, the ways in which the theoretical texts we discovered relate to our personal experiences and to socio-political contexts, and we create in response micro-communities, groups, experience sisterhood, interdependence and the strength of the collective action.
During the class, we will trace the history of different forms of collaborations, cooperations, social and emotional communities. We will discuss the experience of be part of a community or be rejected by one, the ways in which the theoretical texts we discovered relate to our personal experiences and to socio-political contexts, and we create in response micro-communities, groups, experience sisterhood, interdependence and the strength of the collective action.
glossary
- Artivism blends social justice activism and art, empowering participants to curate and create visual and performance productions that provoke new questions and new meaning in pursuit of more respectful ways of being.
- Community Art is a community-oriented, grassroots approach, often useful in economically depressed areas. When local community members come together to express concerns or issues through this artistic practice, professional artists or actors may be involved.
- Community Dance has been described as a dance practice in which professional dancers engaged with various communities to create dance performances, get a sense of identity and belonging to a locality or cultural group. Community dance has a social purpose. It is one that promotes participation and pursues an open and inclusive development.
- Community of practice is made up of practitioners who “develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, and ways of addressing recurring problems”. Dancing communities: Here dance features as part of religious, familial, recreational or social events and it’s not necessarily practiced as a profession.
- Participatory art is an approach to making art which engages public participation in the creative process, letting them become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work.
- Participatory dances take place at social events where a particular community comes together to. celebrate.
- Relational art or relational aesthetics is a practice highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud. He defined the approach as "a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space."[...] "The artist can be more accurately viewed as the "catalyst" in relational art, rather than being at the centre."
- Social choreography is an emerging field that mixes embodied practices with theoretical insights drawn from a wide array of fields: choreography, cybernetics, psychoanalysis, social theory, relational art, participatory theory, phenomenology, embodied cognition, and others.dit.
during the classes, activities will involve
Performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation and movement; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; movement research ; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...) making exercises and creative tasks in different medium (drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art...), searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
final public showing
Following the last class, participants will present their works in the frame of a series of outdoor totally free of charge public space showings (performances, exhibitions, ceremonies, rituals...).