The Dirty Dozen - crossborder creative collective

Research project Dirty Dozen BodyLab takes place in Berlin from 8.8. till 28.8.2010 at Schwelle 7. Wanda & Nova deViator are participating in the project remotely. As a result of a three-week intensive work (presented on 28.8. 22pm-2am) we will inter-connect Ljubljana and Berlin with help of streaming technologies. This is a remote performance questioning contemporary digital communication media and their use in the context of performance. Using self-imaging technologies authors are interested in activation (rather then repression) of the processes of displacement, projection and identification.

During the performance it was possible to watch direct stream. The archives are coming soon.


"Embracing hybridation.
Locating the non centralized power ideologies that form our bodies.
Looking beyond propaganda and standardized forms of representation.
Crossing teritories and our otherness.
Assembling, disassembling a puzzle, activating disorientation and ambiguity...
Different ways of seeing and being seen."


The Dirtiy Dozen are:
Michel Abdoul/ contemporary choreographer dancer performer (Paris)
Pascal Baes/ independent film maker multi-media performer (Brussels)
Joao Costa / contemporary choreographer dancer performer (Porto)
Maja Delak / contemporary choreographer dancer performer (Ljubljana)
Awatef Fettar / independent video artist, dancer, burlesque performer (Algeria, Paris)
Oscar Garcia / independant videomaker, performer (Berlin)
Dusan Pejcic / fi-fu fashion make-up performance (Berlin)
Kiril Bikov / independant artist photographer, performer (Berlin)
Kathleen Reynolds / contemporary choreographer dancer performer (Rennes)
Aï Suzsuki / butoh dancer, multi-media performer (Brussels)
Gill Viandier / contemporary choreographer, dancer, performer, (Berlin)
Raphaël Vincent / independent video artist plastician, performer (Berlin)
Vero Mota / filmmaker and sound artist (Berlin)
Luka Princic / intermedia and sound artist (Ljubljana)



History:
Project proposition started by Kathleen Reynolds proposing a research based on following themes.

GUEST (Body Lab)
by Guest Dozen on Friday, August 13, 2010

exploring socio-discursive processes that shape bodies and spaces as sites of social (dis)identification guest players:
A critical project explicating the politics of representation may interrogate the onto-epistemological (pre)suppositions predicated on such a practice.
What is at stake in this interrogation is precisely what matters; the question of the body, and the body posed as questionable. But what is the question of the body? And how does the body in this question silhouette a shape of bodies that are constructed as socially questionable?
In other words, how does the question of the body imply the simultaneous production of a domain of bodies that are shaped as socially questionable? The production (or question) of social bodies is predicated on the simultaneous production of a sphere of socially abjected or questionable bodies.
Therefore, the question of the body is produced through the force of exclusion and abjection of the body as questionable, one which produces a constitutive ‘outside’ to the question of the body; an abjected ‘outside’ marking the body as questionable. Eleven bodies will inhabit Schwelle 7 for a three-week intervention to explore the simultaneous production and subjugation of bodies and the processes that shape bodies as sites of sociopolitical (dis)identification.
More specifically, this intervention will explore how the body is shaped, along the axes of multiple identity categories, as an effect of dynamic power relations that function to produce the question of the body and the body as questionable. (by Charly Haddad)



Ljubljana collaboration research by Luka Prinčič and Maja Delak responded to text above: "We believe that it is precisely this point -- the subject formation -- that is linked to the question of politics of representation. It seems that we can try to locate in many ways the dispersed (non-centralised) powers/ideologies that objectify our bodies and manipulate their representations as coherent fixed stable subjects and then try to subvert and fight these powers back. However, by using a technology of transmission, of broadcast, a digital version of the televisual, enchanced with the fact of remoteness, and a kind of digital presence, we would like to explore the possibilities of self-imaging: we want to _activate_ (rather than disavow or repress) the processes of displacement, projection and identification... We are looking into possible new ways of seeing, being seen, and producing subjects of postmodern space/body who embrace its ambiguities and disorientations rather than erasing, suppressing, or otherwise attempting to master them. (cf. A. Jones)."


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