Archive for June, 2006
Collectivity? You Mean Collaboration
Performance theorist Bojana Cvejić has researched extensively on issues related to collaboration. Her lecture and essay “Collectivity? You Mean Collaboration” rethinks definitions of collectivty outside of established roles and assumptions about collaboration perpertrated by institutionalised collaboration or art market requirements.
This paper is a transcript of a paper presented at Conext # 1 in Berlin and […]
Lisbon Getogether
The third ALMOSTREAL getogether took place in Lisbon 13 June 2006. This one-day gathering of ALMOSTREAL advisors and ALMOSTREAL team was held to reflect and discuss the practical and conceptual structure of ALMOSTREAL and also to consider the future development of stage 3 in Lisbon involving a cross-disciplinary workshop that draws new links between between […]
Before and After the Show: unfolding the working process
“…Once the performance “is over,” its process of making as well as the post-productional life is hard to trace…for it tends to fall into oblivion.”
14 artists from various cultural and artistic backgrounds spent the span of a year (July 2005-June 2006) working with one another to produce and present 6 collaborative performance pieces for the […]
Lisbon Getogether
The third ALMOSTREAL getogether was held on the 13th of June 2006 during the Alkantara international performance and dance festival in Lisbon. Participants were advisors to ALMOSTREAL: Kyong Park and Therese Kaufmann, and Alkantara festival director Mark de Putter and the ALMOSTREAL team.
This one-day gathering considered some possibilities for further continuing ALMOSTREAL stage 3 in […]
Encounters
Like alkantara’s earlier projects, Encounters focused on international collaboration and intercultural dialogue, except this time, on a much larger scale. Between August 2005 and June 2006, alkantara (Lisbon) and Panorama Rio Dança (Rio de Janeiro) organised a yearlong project in which artists from different cultural contexts worked together in addressing themes of cultural difference, the […]