Indeterminacy & Improvisation in Performance & Environmental Practice

A symposium on movement, science,
and the environment in New York City.

March 23rd & 24th @ The New School

Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street
$5-25 sliding scale fee 

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See below for a schedule and event details

*3-D photograph by Gerald Marks

About the Symposium

Moving Into the Out There is iLAND’s fourth annual symposium on dance, movement, and the environment. The two-day event in the heart of New York City brings together dancers, choreographers, designers, ecologists, advocates, and scientists for interactive panel discussions, field workshops, and networking opportunities. This year’s symposium features an in-depth review of PARK, an environmental performance project at Fresh Kills Landfill supported by the 2011 iLAB Residency. Moving Into the Out There will also highlight iLAND’s recent efforts to synthesize insights and discoveries from the past seven years of iLAB collaborative residencies. Detailed event descriptions are attached.

Moving Into the Out There is an open forum for exploring new methods of understanding urban ecosystems through innovative collaborations between practitioners of movement, dance, science, and environmental management. iLAND cultivates a deeper engagement with urban environmental issues through its cross-disciplinary approach, and the annual symposium invites the general public to experience and explore recent works emerging from the iLAND community. Moving Into the Out There features the work of iLAND’s 2011 iLAB Residency, opening up the results of that collaborative experience to a wider audience for discussion.

Throughout the Symposium, participants share in the process of searching for shared language and collaborative processes that cut across the arts and sciences, focusing on dance and the body as primary mediators of experience, imagination, and knowing. Through Moving Into the Out There iLAND aims to generate conversation about collaborative practice throughout communities of art and science, instigating new ways of understanding and intervening in contemporary environmental problems – particularly those related to over-development and climate change.

More information here:

https://ilandsymposium.wordpress.com/symposium/

Dias 25, 26 e 27 de Fevereiro de 2011, no c.e.m. – centro em movimento, decorre o workshop ´performance ecology` facilitado pelo artista/ académico Raphael-Jay Ajaykumar. O workshop propõe introduzir e experienciar noções de ´ser-relacional` e ´ecologia profunda` na prática da performance. É parte integrante do projecto de investigação 8 technology, que reúne idéias particulares de ciência, tecnologia digital, filosofia (oriental e ocidental), arquitectura e arte. Destina-se a performers, actores, dança, artistas plásticos e visuais, praticantes de artes orientais, arquitectos, activistas, investigadores, filósofos, e qualquer pessoa interessada nas idéias do 8 technology, com ou sem experiência.
O workshop é promovido pelo CIAC – Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, em parceria com o Goldsmiths College, University of London/ 8technology reasearch project e o c.e.m. – centro em movimento. + info: www.ciac.pt/site.pdf

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On the 25th, 26th and 27th February, the c.e.m. – Centro em Movimento (Centre in Movement), in Lisbon, hosts the workshop “performance ecology” facilitated by the artist / scholar Raphael-Jay Ajaykumar. The workshop seeks to introduce and experiment notions of “relational being” and “deep ecology” in performance practice. This workshop is part of the “8 technology” research project, which discusses ideas on science, digital technology, philosophy (Eastern and Western), architecture and art. It is aimed to performers, actors, dancers, fine arts artists, oriental arts practitioners, architects, activists, researchers, philosophers and anyone interested in the 8 technology ideas, with or without experience.
The workshop is promoted by CIAC – Research Centre in Arts and Communication in a partnership with the Goldsmiths College, University of London / 8 technology Research Project and C.E.M. – Centro em Movimento. + info: www.c-e-m.org/?page_id=1008