DasArts / Master of Theatre

Block 16
HUMANMATERIALMACHINEFACTOR

The semester started on 1 March 2002 and ended on 31 August 2002 and the thematic block started on 18 February 2002 and ended on 28 April 2002

Mentor

Shu Lea Cheang (USA)

Locations

Cloisters, Ruud II (set up as a machine-depot), Glasshouse (set up as physical workspace), Garageboxes, Containerhuis van Atelier van Lieshout on the DasArts premises,Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.

Activities

• textstanalysis The Hamletmachine by Heiner Mueller (D),
• workshops choreography
• Kung Fu andTango training
• soup cooking, lectures and discussions, collective rehearsals, new media research
• material on video, texts, sketches, performative responses, installations
• soundcompilations, performances
• twelve individuele informal presentations
• two public events: BL16CK from 12 to 12 and Jamming Jam Session

Visits to

• WATER EVERYWHERE GOING NOWHERE four days on Tjalk Liberte, IJsselmeer
• Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Trade, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
• Clip City, Exploding Cinema, Nederlands Architectuur Instituut, Rotterdam
• • Pop-Off, radio broadcast Oudekerksplein, Amsterdam
• No Backup Concerts by STEIM, de Melkweg, Amsterdam
• From Phantoms to Rhizomes, lecture by Linda Dement and Jane Castle, DasArts Open Session
• BACK TO THE WATER, Het Zuiderbad, Amsterdam

Guest teachers

Jane Castle (AUS), Linda Dement (AUS), DJ Popayata (D), DJ Seda (D), DJ Sedyst (D), Beth Coleman (USA), Lalo Diaz (AR), Sher Dorruf (NL), Niels Bogaards (NL), Ricardo Dominguez (USA), Henny Eleonora (NL), Coco Fusco (USA) , Matthew Fuller (GB), Mieke Gerritzen (NL), Howard Goldkrand (USA), Wanda Golonka (F), Graham Harwood (GB), Carl Hegeman (D), Robert van Heumen (NL), Martin Howse (GB), Ernest Janssen (NL), Sebastian Lopez (AR), Nikolaus Mueller-Schoell (D), Juan Carlos Tajes (AR), Erik Temmerman (B), Herman Weinans (NL)

Participants

Michiel Alberts (NL), Barbara Gene (NL), Thomas Johannsen (D), Sarah Manya (USA), Robert Kiem Hwat So (NL), Nancy Mauro-Flude (AUS), Michael Sahr Ngaujah (USA), Roy Peters (NL), Fahrudin Salihbegovic (NL/YU), Isabel Schroeder (D), Cecilia Vallejos (E), Pepijn Zwanenberg (NL)

Content of Block 16

CODED PERFORMATIVE DAMIT ETWAS KOMMT MUSS ETWAS GEHEN DIE ERSTE GESTALT DER HOFFNUNG IST DIE FURCHT DIE ERSTE ERSCHEINUNG DES NEUEN DER SCHRECKEN. PROCESSING FORGOTTEN AND FORGOTTEN AND FORGOTTEN ENGINEERINGMACHINE I AM MY OWN PRISONER. I FEED MY DATA INTO THE COMPUTER. ELECTRO-THEATRIC LAENGER ALS GLUECK IST ZEIT, UND LAENGER ALS UNGLUECK: PROJECTED SPACE-RAMA THE UPRISING STARTS AS A WALK ENHANCED MIXED REALITY DAS THEATER KANN SEIN GEDAECHTNIS FUER DIE WIRKLICHKEIT NUR WIEDERFINDEN, WENN ES SEIN PUBLIKUM VERGIBT TELEPORTED MOBILE-MOTION DER BEITRAG DES SCHAUSPIELERS ZUR EMANZIPATION DES ZUSCHAUERS IST SEINE EMANZIPATION VOM ZUSCHAUER SYNCOPATED TELEJAM B / WE'LL SEE, WON'T WE. STREAMING NETIVITY / I EXHALE I AM /

We started with the reading of Heiner Mueller’s The Hamletmachine (1977) and moved on to develop sequences of performative acts in an attempt to interface humanmachine. DasArts’ Glasshouse was constructed into a workout space where human materials were shaped and processed. Studio "Ruud II" was designated as a machine depot where software and hardware were assembled and explored for their performative applications. Wireless transmission and mobile technology interlinked DasArts' Glasshouse and Studio "Ruud II", adding airspace and the Internet as performance outlets. The 10 WEEK block recruited theater directors, installation-performance artists, sound artists, cultural activists; along with hackers, crackers, linkers, programmers, developers, machinists, robots, radicals; along with kung fu masters, sex workers, rice cookers and soup pots to proclaim: DASARTSOPENSTUDIOOPENSOURCEOPEN DOJOOPENSOUPOPENMIKEOPENAIROPENSEX.

Special dialogue sessions were planned with artists and architects on configuration and navigation of multiplex performance spaces as techno-mobility recharged the scenes and sets.

Week by Week

Week 1: 18-21 February

• daily routines: Kung Fu training with Henny Eleonora, Soup Cooking, Lunch in the Glasshouse
• WATER EVERYWHERE GOING NOWHERE 4 days on the IJsselmeer the Tjalk ‘Liberte. No landing no electronics no mobile no net. Particpants presented work in the context of the spaces they where performed, installed, exhibited

Week 2: 25 February-1 March

Close reading of Heiner Mueller’s ‘The Hamletmachine’ (1977) with Nikolaus Mueller-Schoell, theorist/associate professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main

Week 3: 4-8 March

• Workshop HM+I with Choreographer Wanda Golonka
• 7 March: Visit Hamam / Gay Sauna

Week 4: 11-15 March

• Tango Classes with Lalo Diaz
• lecture on Tango & Literature by Juan Carlos Tajes
• lecture on Tango & Art by Sebastian Lopez
• OPEN SALON with Lalo Diaz/ Juan Carlos Tajes/ Sebastian Lopez

Week 5: 18-22 March

• visiting artists: Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominiguez:
• Dolores from 10h to 22h, a performance by Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez that was broadcast live via by Kiasma, Helsinkis Museum of Contemporary Art.

Week 6: 25-29 March

• invited artists: Matthew Fuller, Graham Harwood, Mieke Gerritzen, Martin Howse
• reading material: Matthew Fuller, 'The R, The A, The D, The I, The O, the media
• ecology of pirate radio
• Gilles Deleuze, 'Louis Wolfson; or, the procedure'
• Friedrich Kittler, 'Introduction to, Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter'

Week 7: 1-7 April

• invited guests: Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand
• SoundLab New York DJ Seda Berlin
• on 6 April: Jamming Jam Session

Week 8: 9-13 April

• invited guests: Jane Castle, Linda Dement
• on 13 April: Open Lab 104 FROM PHANTOMS TO RHIZOMES, an informal talk by Jane Castle and Linda Dement

Week 9: 15-19 April

• budget lecture by Erik Temmerman (B), M Kunstencentrum De Vooruit, Gent
• workshop by Dr. Carl Hegemann (D), Volksbuehne Berlin

Week 10: 22-26 April

As a conclusion of the work in BL16CK HUMANMATERIALMACHINEFACTOR the audience was invited to participate in the daily BL16CK Routines and view the Collective Rehearsals of work in progress by participating artists:

Open Lab 105, BL16CK from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m

• Michiel Alberts (NL) Todesanzeige
• Barbara Gene (NL) HOME/room for singular pleasures
• Thomas Johannsen (D) The skin project
• Sarah Manya (USA) Untitled 192
• Robert Kiem Hwat So (NL) Pandora’s cabinet
• Nancy Mauro-Flude (AUS) Sister Outsider’s operating manual for the heart
• Michael Sahr Ngaujah (USA) It goes without saying
• Roy Peters (NL) ICE AGE
• Fahrudin Salihbegovic (NL/YU) Deus ex Hamletmachina
• Isabel Schroeder (D) Hamletfactory
• Cecilia Vallejos (E) Scherzo
• Pepijn Zwanenberg (NL) Vain & suicidal

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