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Aberystwyth Residency Images Day 2

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Practical framework #2

In response to Noyale's 'Practical framework' post:

To recount Noyale, the key question is to ask:

But what is involved in becoming besides oneself? In experiencing plurality? Can I, you those yet to come, really not be what we have (felt to have) been for so long in Western culture, an 'I' that is before all else, as a condition for all else, an enclosed, individual, indivisible, opaque, private, singularly rooted Me?
Noyale:

These practical sessions will be in dialogue with the above re-framing of 'human nature'. Through practice we are aiming at finding strategies which while belonging to performance making registers will enable us to set up conditions to examine the shifting tension between our sense of monadic 'I' and the idea of distributed self.

Can we develop a score (as Noyale suggested) and also attempt through this to create a complex map of practice in the space: a map that maps the network of the self. I am defining the 'network' that we are working with as beyond the two bodies that are moving in the space, and thus we are attempting to find a way of mapping the network that is not present in the two bodies.

Through developing the score we attempt to create a situation that activates different versions of 'self', and different memories in the participants.

Suggestions for the creation of the score:

Individually bring a (previous) movement phrase

a (new) movement phrase of repeated gestures

a 'costume'

a (self written) butoh fu

an image

an object

a text

a recount (through any medium) of a walk taken in Aberystwyth (recounting images/sensations)

Using all (or a selection) of the score ideas above, performers should attempt to perform an individual score solo, and then as a 'duet' with the other person performing their own score. We practice a range of approaches, whereby we perform our scores as solo (and the other observing); as duet; as part-solo part-duet (with the other intervening when they choose), and attempting to become increasingly immersed in the other performer as we perform our own score.

I would like to use/think about online digital identity within this.

Can we 'account' for the score and create a visual map using the paper on the wall, using the notions from the score that Noyale attached as a framework: presence levels, space relations, sensations, images, self reference, transformation, deconstruction, flashbacks.

Example of a Hijikata butoh fu:

Example of how to create a butoh-fu:

Practical framework -

''But if we are indeed bio-techno-cultural hibrids, if 'nature' is now inseparable from social artifice, and the 'human' is an on-going, open-ended project of mediated self -construction with shifting boundaries and no identifiable telos, then these directions are not arbitrary or unconditioned... the condition in question is one of horizontal movement, not upwards or forwards but sideways; not linear or sequential but dispersive and parallel; not going beyond but an expansion, a multiplication, and intensification of what was always there; a new realisation of the past and its futures, and with this a recognition of the incipient plurality of a psyche  in the process of becoming besides itself. But what is involved in becoming besides oneself? In experiencing plurality? Can I, you those yet to come, really not be what we have (felt to have) been for so long in Western culture, an 'I' that is before all else, as a condition for all else, an enclosed, individual, indivisible, opaque, private, singularly rooted Me?

These practical sessions will be in dialogue with the above re-framing of 'human nature'. Through practice we are aiming at finding strategies which while belonging to performance making registers will enable us to  set up conditions to examine the shifting tension between our sense of monadic 'I' and the idea of distributed self.

Score:
Mapping onto the idea of the japanese Butho - Fu we attempt to develop a score

All situation created have the potential to become choreographies
The situations produce movements and/or voicing of ideas/sensations
The situation produce different relationship between the performers and between the performers and the audience members.
The situation should allow different ways of performing (either different styles/persona, use of different medium... language, movement, images, sound...)

Suggested ideas:

•  performers should do the same things and wear the same thing (3 times during the performance)
• Performers should refer to online digital identity

Rebecca see below an idea of score that point to the direction I am thinking.

The table she is using with a range of notions (presence levels, space relations, sensations, images, self reference, transformation, Deconstruction, Flash backs...) seem to be echoing the use of paper on the wall.

TO BE CONTINUED....