Jerwood Bank 2007

Duration: 03:41 minutes

…yes! the sharing today was refreshing and very useful ! I enjoyed watching the evolution of other people’s work, listening to other’s thought process, listening to doubts, questions and suggestions.

Seeing each other during this last week has helped me a lot: I felt inspired and pushed to be braver in my own choices. There is a great sense of willingness to help and support each other’s development! I really felt supported and understood THANK YOU ALL!!! =)

I feel we are all on the same track even though our material seems so different. It is precious to notice and admire differences, allowing them to coexist. It is so enriching! 

Yesterday and today I have been working in the small studio: I needed some space to be loud and messy and … bold!  It felt very liberating to disturb my material, put it in the washing machine, make it turn and twitch and swing and shake. I don’t know how much of it I will keep but it felt like a part of me that has been silent has come out! … and as Rohanna said: it is just about realising that the cage has always been open! how funny is it: we look for freedom of expression but we create our own boundaries…to break! funny humans!!

Susanna filmed on the 4th September.
Duration: 39 seconds

Susanna’s clip from the 29th August.
Duration: 33 seconds

I find really hard to concentrate this afternoon. Eva’s class was intense, full of information. It felt like it was enough for the day! Do we have a sense of measure in dance? Do we recognise when we have danced all the dance we could have danced for the day? Is the body an endless source of movement? Is there a limit?
I feel very grounded but very still. My thought process seems very active. I feel like reading now.

A long journey walking, leaving one’s land to find fortune and love.
Small roads and huge trees behind, water, warmth and a man.

Towards a land – A foreign land

BEHIND
BEING PULLED
STADING
WAITING
DANCING
and
CRYING

A woman…said enough.
Everyone was saying “Quicker, Quicker”
she kept going on her way

Between praying, fucking and making bread
the hore and the nun

Daily gestures would remind her where she is.
Daily gestures would remind her that she is seen.
(Constantly…)

She dreams invisible moves.
She is still looking for them.

Because objects of art are expressive, they are a language. Rather they are many languages. For each art has its own medium and that medium is especially fitted for one kind of communication. Each medium says something that cannot be uttered as well or as completely in any other tongue.

 Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken to. The hearer is an indispensable partner. The work of art is complete only as it works in the experience of others than the one who created it.

There is the speaker, the thing said, and the one spoken to. The external object, the product of art, is the connecting link between artist and audience. Even when the artist works in solitude all three terms are present. The work is there in progress, and the artist has to become vicariously the receiving audience. He can speak only as his work appeals to him as one spoken to through what he perceives. He observes and understands as a third person might note and interpret. Matisse is reported to have said: “When a painting is finished, it is like a new-born child. The artist himself must have time for understanding it.” It must be lived with as a child is lived with, if we are to grasp the meaning of his being.

by John Dewey

 I thought of sharing these words with you. I felt they are relevant in so many ways to what we have been talking about: language, creative process, solitary practice and much more…

“Art does not reproduce the visible. It renders visible” (P. Klee) I am struggling with making things visible! It was helpful to see my self in video yesterday and acknowledge the gap between sensing something and see its manifestation into movement. At the moment I am working on some Gormley’s drawings. I am borrowing his drawings and their forms; maybe the next step would be to leave the two-dimentional images behind, make them alive, find their emotional realm, sense what they suggest me…     any advice is more than welcome!!
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each colour is a manifestation of a different physicality

follow the signs and you’ll discover a new potentiality!

Susanna’s clip from the 9th August.
Duration: 30 seconds

“Then it occured to me to ask what it is that man does when he dances, not only as artist but as man. He expresses that which cannot be put into words; he gives voice to the ineffable, intangible meaning and condition of being alive; he puts himself in touch with forces beyond the purely pesonal and mundane; he swims in a river of movement that refreshes his spirit.”
From Reflections on Metamorphosis by M. Starks Whitehouse

we are just starting to work with the second song… it is a play between the uniqueness of a given STRUCTURE and an immense nember of POSSIBILITIES

on the 100lire song I was struggling to finish the task getting the rythm “right” getting each movement “right” … and then I was stuck!
I am interestd in this moments: I am stuck my creativity seems to be reduced to zero and my body feels rigid not open to movement
then something, a word, an image (often an external element) helps me shift my attention – and frustration – and here we are: a flowing state of open and not judgmental state in which anything can emerge!
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