RELAY at the ImPulsTanz Symposium - July 28, 2024
ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna
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Titled LACE#2: Mediating Touch, the ImPulsTanz Symposium will take place from July 26-28, 2024 in Vienna, Austria.The Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships project RELAY - Thinking Artistic Material in Music and Dance will be represented on July 28 with the Deep Dive workshop series “Relay-ing” and a panel.
The artistic research project RELAY investigates the materiality of movement and sound and the transformation that takes place when these are transferred between people, places, contexts and across time. The ImPulsTanz workshops will give participants an insight into the methods and tools that RELAY has developed over the course of the project to date. These tools interweave physical, reflexive and documentary practices and explore how knowledge is created through transfer and transmission.
Sunday July 28 2024
WORKSHOPS, 2.15 - 3.45 pm.
IIntroduction by Konstantinos Tsakirelis and Rasmus Ölme.
The workshops and the panel will be held in English. The workshops start with an introduction into RELAY and the “Relay-ing” methods. Participants will then have the possibility to choose one of the three workshops. After the workshops, a joined “smuggling” session with all workshop participants will provide insight into the material developed in all three workshops.
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WORKSHOP 1
Three women combining different disciplines - history, archaeology and choreography - we share our desire for discovery. Embedded within all three practices lies the notion of listening, noticing, multidimensionality, and awareness, which can be used as creative tools. As part of the deep dive we like to share aspects of our creative process that infuses our practices. We will try to trace through all the senses the impact of history on different sites and how it connects different communities.
This workshop will be facilitated by Stella Malliaraki, Vera Sander and Evita Tsakalaki.
WORKSHOP 2
To start with we would like to propose a collective soundpainting exercise in which we will create a composition together in real time using voice, body, and environment. From here, we continue to explore our bodies as transmitters - between 2 or more other bodies, between spaces, spots, moments, in playful and meaningful ways, in sound and movement and any other means of communication, in and between conventional and unconventional spaces such as staircases, corridors, lobbies etc. To end with, we offer ways of taking time for listening, exploring, contemplating the artistic material in the making, and meditating upon the material that we carry away and the material that we leave behind.
This workshop will be facilitated by Jan Burkhardt, Cătălin Crețu, and Andreea Duta.
WORKSHOP 3
In this workshop we will share practices and scores that were developed in the making of the ARTwork, a shape-changing sculpture that has been made by all participants of the RELAY project. The scores are suggestions for entering collaboration without the need for consensus as a starting point, but through a direct engagement with diverse artistic materials. By paying attention to what is already in the room, the idea is to let common themes and interests emerge from practice.
The workshop will be facilitated by Maia Means and Max Wallmeier.
„RELAY - Thinking Artistic Material in Music and Dance“ is a three year artistic research project funded by the ERASMUS+ "Cooperation Partnerships" program.
During the Olympics in Rio 2016, the Japanese team unexpectedly won the silver medals in the men's 4x100 meter Relay Final. The surprising part was that individually all team members ran slower than their competitors and the secret to their success was instead due to their work with optimizing the hand overs of the baton from one runner to the next, saving them precious seconds in the tight race.
RELAY is a three-year EU-funded research project supported by the ERASMUS+ programme "Cooperation Partnerships" that focuses on developing the artistic and educational fields of choreography, dance and music. The above mentioned story can be seen as an analogy of the project's aim: favouring collaboration, the in betweens and the passing-overs between the collaborating institutions, the programmed events, the artists involved and the public it gets in touch with.
RELAY has grown out of four different contextual grounds. All of these are geared towards sustainable conditions for the practitioner's work/life balance and longevity in career, as well as increased awareness of local contexts and situated knowledge: Artistically, it springs out of a current strand in contemporary dance and choreography that uses movement as a lense to investigate the supposed dualism of material and immaterial. In addition, the project explores in what way dance and music can find mutual ground in such an investigation.
In relation to sustainability, the project starts from the fact that both dance and music are global phenomenons and their practitioners are known to travel frequently. RELAY looks at how to work climate-consciously with the trans-national and cross-cultural exchange that remains a crucial element in the development of the artforms.
The pedagogical context of the project derives from the innovative potentials that art-educations represent in terms of student-driven learning environments. This is pursued all the while investigating how principles of sustainability can be found and/or applied in the domain of artistic research, teaching and art production.
Last but not least: Multitudes of perspectives. Geographically RELAY brings partners from north, centre, east and south of Europe, but also a difference in form of organization that the partners represent, mixing academic institutions with independent organizations.
The core activities of the project are workshops of 1-2 weeks involving students from higher education in the fields of choreography, dance and music. In some cases, younger participants from talent environments as well as professional artists will participate. Researchers from the partner institutions will follow the project and mentor the participants. The experiences will develop research materials to be shared in public events such as seminars and conferences. Beyond on-site Learning, Teaching, Training Activities, three multiplier events will take place: two symposiums in Cologne and Montepulciano as well as a Conference in Aarhus connected to the IETM Annual Gathering.
Two tangible project results will be developed during the lifetime of the project:
- A RELAY ARTicle about the process, including challenges and realizations considered relevant for the field of art education, innovative education in general and artistic research.
- A RELAY ARTwork: documentation of a continuously developing and developed artistic material that travels and is handed over from person to person throughout the entire project time.
Facts and figures
Partner countries: Denmark, Greece, Germany, Romania
Partner institutions: Sikinnis; University of Music and Dance Cologne; The National University of Music Bucharest - The Electroacoustic Music And Multimedia Center; The National Dance Center Bucharest;
The National University of Theater and Film, Romania
If you are interested in the RELAY project results and activities, you are welcome to sign up for the RELAY mailing list - click here
Project period: November 2021 - November 2024
- February 2022, Opening (LTT1), Cologne
- May 2022, “Form and Content” (LTT2), Copenhagen
- September 2022, “explore the generation and transmission of artistic material through movement and sound” (LTT3), Bucharest
- April 2023, (LTT 4 + Symposium): “content/Relay/form”, Cologne
- June 2023, “Sharing: Project results” IETM annual meeting 2023/ conference, Aarhus
- September 2023, “Being (in) a fortress” (LTT5), Crete
- July 2024, Workshop at ImpulsTanz Symposium Vienna