Energy in Balance
Two international, artistic networks, the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT) and Vision Forum are creating a three-day event in and for Copenhagen in collaboration with Danish curator Laura Goldschmidt.
“Energy in Balance” looks for new perspectives on the human body by bringing together knowledge from the arts, philosophy, science and kinesiology. The working group aims to use the acquired knowledge to develop new and visionary works of art.
The working process will focus on the human body and how it hosts
knowledge outside of consciousness, the cerebral and the rational. Such knowledge is seen as an ideal in movements such as Zen Buddhism. Relevant questions for discussions in the project include:
- The human body knows perfectly well how to operate its immune system. How is this possible, although science knows only a fraction how it works?
- How can an unborn baby know how to create its own body?
- How can we access such knowledge and what traditions can help us in the process?
- When we speak of intuition, is that an intellectual of bodily process?
- How does the body’s knowledge, as discussed above, play a role in art-making and the creative process?
The goal of the event is for the organizers to learn together with artists, curators, health-workers and the general public in the Danish capital.
The goal is not to find conclusive answers to such questions, but to reflect on how a slightly altered perspective on human (and non-human) knowledge can be of use in art-making and in healing. The organisers want to collectively understand how we can think differently about our bodies and how such a change in perspective might affect our lives.
PROGRAM (TBC)
Monday, February 24, afternoon and evening:
Mid-day: Arrival at Q-Space
Contributing/participating: Annemarie, Laura, Per, Dafna, Mia, Carima, Olav
Internal symposium to present/demonstrate our work/research and formulate shared questions.
Time to experiment.
Dinner
Tuesday, February 25, 10:00 to 16:00:
(Program, open to students, faculty at Q-Space)
10:00 Per: Short presentation of Vision Forum and Governing Bodies (45 min)
11:00 Dafna: Interactive Bodymind workshop (90 min)
12:30 Lunch break
13 :30 Annemarie: Presentation on Kinesiology, interactive exercises (90 min)
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Mia: Lecture “How to eat artistically” (60 min)
16:30 Olav: Presentation on APT and playtime using either sound or drawing (60 min)
Dinner
Wednesday, February 26, 15:00 to late:
(open to public)
15:00 Laura: Welcome and curatorial thoughts on the symposium, topic and format (15 min)
15:30 Dafna: Video screening, new work, dramatizing a body centering exercise, conversation (45 min)
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Annemarie: The Behavioral Barometer Presentation/demonstration (60 min)
Coffee/Snacks/socializing (time for set-up)
18:30: Olav: Quintett, digestive sound performance (30 min)
19:30: Per and Robert: Performance (30 min)
Socializing and open end