"Meeting with artists" proposition

Hello all!

Here comes a first proposition concerning the “Meeting with Artists” activity within the K.a.F. project (and more specifically the Programmation Group). This is just the starting point from where we can begin to exchange ideas about how to define the proposition more.

So , the main points that we first considered are :

• Which will be the exact proposals to the artists? Till now we thought of 3 options either discussions/debates or lectures or short workshops.
• How do we organize those meetings so that both sides can benefit from it.
• Which is the role of the Moderator on the synthesis/construction of the discussions ?
• Who meets with Who? (Maybe it would be helpful to have a look at the program of the festival).

Concerning the discussions we thought that the following characteristics are important:

1. Specificity/Concreteness (What kind of strategies we could develop so as to make the discussion easy to be followed and to avoid spinning out!!)
2. Performativity ( How do we understand this term in relation with the discussions as well as with the lectures and why not the workshops too.)
3. All the participants are aware of the Responsibility that they have on constructing the discussion (How to develop techniques so that this awareness can contribute to a constructive way of talking ?).

We thought that it would be interesting to organize meetings/debates with 2 or more artists f. ex. The “Club de 5” with the “2 fish” talking about collective work or Yvonne Rainer and Xavier Le Roy talking about The Rite of the Spring or group projects (optionally).

The topics of the discussions, lectures, workshops.
As options could be:

1. Intuition (as method), inspired by G.Deleuze’s ”Bergsonism”
2. The notion of Affect and Expression
3. Collective work processes -What kind of strategies/methods could a group use in order to create?
4. Music and Choreography

..and and and..



Looking forward to your responses..!