Hola everyone,
A quick reminder about an event happening at TheOffCenter's new space this here Friday night!
International Resident Artists Ruairi Donovan (Ireland) and Karina Sarkissova (Sweden) are hosting an all night party where YOU ARE THE CONTENT.
It's called American Dreaming, and it's a durational event (in the form of a party) that will include multiple platforms for engagement...ie. Karaoke, dancing, facilitated choreographic social scores, etc.
Read more about the artists, the vision and the event here: theoffcenter.org/programming/residencies/node-1-american-dream/
When: Friday 12/9 starting at 10:30pm and going until 4:30am-ish...sleepovers ok. (bring blankets, warm things, etc)
Where: [**]Space at 848 Divisadero St (near McAllister), SF 94117
Cost: Suggested Donation $5-10 to recuperate artist expenses and support the development of the space. We'll be selling some drinks too, but you can also bring your own.
I'm excited! Hope to see you somewhere soon (hopefully here tomorrow night!)
Ciaooo
Jorge
American Dreaming
Public Event • By THEOFFCENTER
o When
Friday, December 9, 2011
o Time
10:30pm until 4:00am
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Where THEOFFCENTER's [**]! SPACE, 848 Divisadero Street , San Francisco, CA
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Description American Dreaming will use the frame of a "Slumber Dance Party" starting at 10:30pm and going through 4:30am - It will include multiple platforms for engagement, demanding various levels of participation including Karaoke, as a performative action and Second Hand Received American social gaming as a lens.
American Dreaming is a facilitated durational event in which we hope to surrender concerns with hegemony and other framings, where we hope to produce knowledge instead of confirming what we already know, to find new ways of being together.
The evening will propose a series of entry points or interactions in the hope of creating research within a social and cultural context. Knowledge will be mediated and not possessed.
Social Dreaming
“I am teaching you how to see as opposed to merely looking and stopping the world is the first step to seeing.”
Social Dreaming is a facilitated choreographic score in which we aim to investigate notions of community, togetherness and subjectivity in a decentralised matrix. An American Dream, for us to create and digest together.
choreograph.net/raw/flexistential-cookbook-setting-up-dreaming-1
American Dreaming will include multiple platforms for engagement, demanding various levels of participation including Karaoke, as a performative action and Second Hand Received American social gaming as a lens or cultural Art-efacts.
For more information check out the American Dream blog at
sarkissova-donovan.tumblr.com/
N.B. We would encourage you to bring comfortable clothes, blankets, yoga mats etc or items with which to make yourself comfortable.
BYOB!!!
Also be sure to check out THE DOG SHOW at Z-Space before and then come join us afterwards!
special thanks to Jeffrey Gormley & everyone at THEOFFCENTRE
Node #1: American Dream
Research for Production @ Melkweg Theatre, Amsterdam, Feb. 2012
This work is a collaboration by artists Ruairi Donovan (IRL)
and Karina Sarkissova (SE).
Learn more about The Nodes Residency at THEOFFCENTER’s [**]! SPACE
About
Mission
Artist Bios
American Dreaming Events
Participate
Ruairi and Karina are emerging European choreographers. Both awarded the prestigious danceWeb scholarship at this years Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. Based in Ireland and Sweden respectively. Their collaborative practice denies geographical constraints and is an investigation into the potential of the Source. Their practice is centered around queer and subversive performance making strategies within the context of contemporary dance and social choreography. Both choreographers are concerned with pattern, dissonance and relational aesthetics as a means of interrogating traum(a).
Conceptually speaking American Dream is partly a propaganda machine and partly a cultural homogenization. Globalization as we interpret is an illusion and we are demanding that we have freedom of movement in order to respond artistically. To collaborate in this context would mean to reclaim power as children of a “global village”.
As Europeans, we will deterritorialize into the US West Coast. Our research will be delivered as a critical filter, a manifestation of our dreams being confronted with an American reality, and then being transported back to Europe, as a personal and political response of globalization and a revenge on the american culture hijacking our interests, creating our desires.
We do not see the way out, even though we are going to attempt to distinguish and confront the power ruling us.
The superficiality and power position of the Theater Venue, is the space that we consider being capable to discuss these cultural dynamics and problems. What does the lens of a performance in response to the experience in the US say about our experience in the EU?
In a Capitalist frame that places the hyper individualization of the self at the paramount of importance, we will only trade on productions of Self.
Once we utter that which is intrinsically ourselves we exist within the realm of the personal, the individual, the self, whether authentic or disingenuous. When we have nothing to trade on but ourselves what commentary are we proposing to West Coast and certainly US modes of critical thinking??? Once the self is public, the individual becomes the product, anything which is placed in the public setting through performance or otherwise is inherently and unavoidably political. There is no escaping the already loaded gun in our belt, we cannot avoid our own political position, the personal is always political as politics at least in our understanding of the concept will always affect and propagate the personal.
The personal is always political.
Follow the American Dream process here
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