During this five and a half hour seminar, two different choreographic practices will be shared as we engage two specific works: one has been developed with Åsa Elzén within YES! Association / Föreningen JA!; in the other, artistic process and authority becomes dislocated as my / the / our body pursues embodied affinities, and a state of becoming-with.
Both practices engage the conditions of work / labour and participation from a posthumanist and material-semiotic understanding of knowledge and knowledge production practices.
I invite you to move through / with these two works, as a process of articulating / manifesting them as live documentation documents.
You are invited to become part.
You are invited to recognize collective aspects of knowledge production as political forces.
You are invited to escape binary logics.
You are invited to take responsibility for the force of becoming.
You are invited to re-conceptualize boundaries and properties.
You are invited to mobilize trust as much as insecurity; support as much as dependence.
You are invited to raise awareness of daily violence.
You are invited to acknowledge simultaneous singularity and multiplicity.
You are invited to recognize how societal power relations materialize in and through bodies.
You are invited to activate something that has already happened,
which by these actions continues to happen.
You are invited to trust impermanence.
I have been invited.
You are invited.
“Performativity, properly construed, is not an invitation to turn everything (including material bodies) into word; on the contrary, performativity is precisely a contestation of the excessive power granted to language to determine what is real.”
— KAREN BARAD, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007, 133)
Final seminar was held in Studio 16 at DOCH, School of Dance and Circus in Stockholm on October 12, 2015.