T.a.T. Performance Art Workshop Kingston University March 2012

participants: Eoin Osullivan Harris, Sofia Lantto, Chris Sebestik, Marina Maniadaki, Elena Vasiliadou, Elli Ashdown, Poppy Moroney, Daisy Kenvin, Gemma Cagney, Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn, Steljos Tzivas, Anniken Weber

Sommer T.a.T. Performance Art Workshop 2012

photographiert und bearbeitet von Bernhard Winkler 2010

Kunstwirkstoff T.a.T. Performance Art Workshops

T.a.T. means pure action

Arrival: Sunday 3.6. 2012

Workshop begins Monday 4.6. 2012 at 9:30 am

Workshop ends Thursday 7.6. 2012 at 5 pm

Departure: Friday 8.6.2012

Saturday Optional Trip to dOCUMENTA (13) 2012

Exhibition opening on June 9, 2012

Day Ticket reduced € 14

Journey by car € 35 pp return, leaving Braunschweig at 8 am

The Performance Art Workshop T.a.T. takes place with

max. 6 participants

cost € 200 per person ( 4 days contact teaching )

Atelier

Wolfenbüttelerstrasse 39

38102 Braunschweig

Germany

Accommodation at Hotel am Park

(www.hotel-cafeampark.de) 5 min walk to workshop location

Wolfenbüttelerstrasse 67

38102 Braunschweig

single room € 34 (shared shower) per night/per person,

Breakfast Buffet € 5

for reservation email: info@hotel-cafeampark.de

or

Bed and Breakfast at private home

€ 10 per Person/day

Braunschweig-Mascherode

20 Min to workshop location using Bus and Tram

email your name until
 29.04.2012
 contact@kunstwirkstoff.de

Participants must have their own insurance

kunstwirkstoff is not liable

individual request for travel information

details: kunstwirkstoff

T.a.T. Performance Art Workshop 2010 Text

Subject and Object

Here are some notes on the terms subject and object and subject-object relationship. The notes that I have written, first of all consider the understanding for subject and object as two separate thought processes, which are at the base of further philosophical discussions.

Often the term subjective is being used in common language; a shortcut referring to one’s own self-consciousness. However in general one has to differentiate any terminology with meaning, understanding and the use of language.

If there is an opposite to subject, it is object but it plays various ambiguous roles in epistemology and in cognitive science. Foucault and Derrida (‘Speech and Phenomena’, Evanston, 1II, 1973) have rejected the notion of subjectivity insisting that it has been misused in the construction of politics, language and culture. The meaning of subject is not relating to a material ‘thing’ but states the pure being or the notion of subjective arbitrariness. Subject depends upon feeling, belief, character, individuality and authenticity and also contains the sense of subjective knowing. Søren Kierkegaard understood the idea of subjective truth to be a force of passionate conviction.

The meaning of subject changes when the intentional action is seen as ‘real’, i.e. an action is initiated by the subject. This means that it reflects itself and is not directed towards an object or ‘Another’. However the development of an action is such that the person releases its subjectivity and becomes object.

The content of object has an intentional relation to the world, space and time. The initial separation of subject and object as inside and outside, external or internal can be accepted first of all (but this does not presume that ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ is part of a reality or that it should claim a truth). Subject is in the process to be investigated and is explored in terms of its own existence (German: das auf sich selbst bezogene Sein) contrary to object meaning thought-process which has its existence in the ‘thing’ (German: das bestehende Gedankending), this is why subject can be the object of a specific thought process. It indicates that the objectiveness is part of the thought construction initiating a theoretical, hypothetical dialog.

Though there is subject-object relationship, which is a thought towards an interdependence of two apparent opposing positions and resolving the thought of separation between two conditions, a relationship offers a wider understanding for a stance, which is interchangeable and perhaps transient.

A presumption is that subject is real and object is imagined. It could be said, that the action is assumed and reasoned from the object itself, i.e. in the direction from outside to the inside. Or the object is immune to feelings and appears solely in the realm of reason, reflection and scientific evidence.

This is a very brief thought encounter and it shows that its contemplation about the two terms is bound to several thought processes. It will be interesting to spin the web of thought and consider these ideas with the practical approach in the workshop situation with the aim of Art Action, Performance Art, documentation and the understanding of performative processes.

The source material for the above definitions so far stems from Walter Brugger, Philosophisches Woerterbuch, Herder Verlag.

Jerxheim September 2010 the aftermath of TaT Performance Art Workshop

For Mari and Eva Beatrice

TaT 2 Performance Art Workshop 2011

Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn workspace during the workshop

Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn final work

Kathrin Rux final work

Eva Beatrice Förster final work

T.a.T. Performance Art Workshops

now is the time for the last two workshops in Jerxheim Bahnhof Germany.

The house is going to be sold and during this summer 2011, we are going to make the best of it.

Dates and Details below on kunstwirkstoff website:

http://www.kunstwirkstoff.de/html/workshops.html

There is a short Workshop I and a long Workshop II.

Presentations from Workshop II will not take place in public but remain a laboratory situation for contemplative reflections. There is also an emphasis given to occupy all possible space around the house to focus on the development of individual work and object making processes.

infos über email: glausnitzer@werftraum.org

Performance Art Workshops T.a.T. Jerxheim 2010

working with object and space


Eva Beatrice Förster, final work


Performance Strauß


Eva Beatrice Förster


Mari Kolbeinson





T.a.T. pure Action, Performance Art Workshop

Performance Art Workshop Monday August 9 - Friday August 13

arrivals on Sunday August 8

kunstwirkstoff ( www.kunstwirkstoff.de )

and T.a.T. Performance Art Workshops in Jerxheim Bahnhof

T.a.T. means pure action

Each workshop is an introduction into the serious play: the relationship of body, space, object and time. Space becomes part of the idea of the world during live experience of action and observation. Creative life, and the process of making art and being the artist are seen as conjunctive and inseparable from every day life. The concept combines various ways of individual perception and states of awareness. It is an introduction to the shifting of personal perspective.

The liberty of moving in time and observing the body in space creates a larger picture which becomes the image. In conventional terms this Art Practice is defined by ‘motion sculpture’, happenings, elements of installation, cultural representation or in the formal presentation of film and video, drawing and photography. The means of production are negotiated individually and experienced in later stages of the workshop. Movement in space is action and this ‘image in motion’ can be presented live during a specified situation and the event of the kunstwirkstoff – Openday in Jerxheim Bahnhof following the August Performance Art workshop.

The house of kunstwirkstoff offers many different rooms, which function as work studios or locations to develop individual ideas. It is part of workshops content to develop individual idea processes and be productively engaged in the making of objects and creating situations. Tools can be used in two work areas. The ambience of the house and garden provide space for tranquility relaxation and retreat. Meals, which are being provided in the evening offer a platform for discussions and reflections. It is necessary that participating artists prepare a small talk and images (CD/DVD) about their previous work practice. Consultations can be arranged during the week of the T.a.T workshop with Dagmar I. Glausnitzer.

The Performance Art workshop is intended to approach the creative process at the core: participants are encouraged to consider the location and situation where ideas take place versus the location and situation where ideas are thought about and materialized. It is a holistic approach to Fine Art Practice emphasizing professional presentation and documentation. This includes skills in philosophical thought process, individual methodology and collaborative practice.

The training involves exercises, which investigate the body being in the present, as well as ideas concerning ritualism, witnessing and the awareness of conditioned behaviour patterns. In close observations by group members and during short discussions, the workshops explore definitions, manifestos and the idea of language. The approach towards authenticity is emphasized in movement as the body is making an original ‘mark’. One important aspect of the artistic process is invention of method with the combination of traces left in space. They may be material or ethereal. Another is the temporal position of the artist identifying a new context of the moment. This includes the consideration and the use of different media and different ways of presentation. The idea of T.a.T. (meaning pure action in art) is to create a relationship between conscious awareness of the process of idea development and the idea of ‘self’.

Content overview:

- T.a.T. pure Action, preparation and identifying materials

- Moving with the object

- Mover and witness

- Towards authentic movement

- Language, image and text, understanding the paradoxical relationship

- Documentation and presentation

- In-situ, spaces and location understanding methodology

The body is the medium of creative fluids reaching the world. Each participant explores the body’s independent notions and in close observation risks to disembark from known, conventional behavior patterns. The workshop opens possibilities for different interpretations and points of view. A so-called identity can be left behind.

The practical experience starts with identifying a moment in time and an action taking place in it. The artist /student learns to become ‘Ambassador’ between the world of materials, objects and the source of his/her own ideas, influences and interventions. Performance as art is not a medium or a style, it is a situation where the artist is aware of the material relationship of cause and effect but with the focus for a non-reflective ‘self’: . . . it is a paradigm, the relationship between transformation and translation (Boris Nieslony, 2002).

Thematic examples of the workshop structure

- The ability to expand and to create images

The workshop’s exercises concentrate on ways to experience a material expansion and mental expansion in relation to spaces or locations. The combined presence or absence of body and space already establishes a certain image to the viewer. It is the aim to gain full consciousness and observe how this image is being transmitted. Most familiar aspects of personality and understanding of ‘self’ can be observed and analyzed. Therefore the sense of ‘self’ can be objectified releasing spontaneity and unplanned action. The physical and mental body expands.

-in-situ

The viewer of the Performance Art Action (free from theatrical implications) in the public field is fixated towards ‘the reading’ of an image and to make 'sense' according to known conventional situations. However the created images of the artists reach the frontiers of familiar faculties and provoke different questions.

It is important to learn and to inquire how the action can take place. The meaning of locations and places have to be re-interpreted.

Some key words:

- space and limitations, unlimited approach

- Architecture and buildings

- Specific locations and their meaning, attributes

- Meeting, assembly, gathering

- Information

- Traces and found objects, found situations

- Depiction of the Action Location

- Gathering of objects and installation

- Position of the viewer

- Performance Art has nothing to do with street performance or theater

The objective is a sensitive fusion of individual, inner-images and awareness, which is being transpired through the action.

This is the place for dialog.

Performance Art Workshops 2010,

TaT pure Action in Art

contact and information: glausnitzer

Jerxheim Bahnhof Open Day 2007

T.a.T. Performance Art Workshops 2008

T.a.T Artists 2008

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single workshop

Heidrun Brandt

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group workshop

Kimbal Bumstead

Natalie Bikoro

Petra Schilling

Damian Hamata

Eva Beatrice Förster

Maria Einert