Agenda
Future projects
Workshop Sarah Vanhee: Talking ahead of one's thoughts
In an attempt to grasp different layers of the 'here and now' in language, Sarah Vanhee developed a performance practice she calls ‘talking ahead of one’s thoughts’. The piece ‘Turning Turning (a choreography of thoughts)’ is based on that practice. Linked to this performance Sarma@WorkSpaceBrussels will organize a workshop with Sarah Vanhee from October 15th to 19th 2012. More detailed information on date, location and time will follow.
Current Projects
Salon #8: Practising Dilettantism
Dilettantism currently finds a revival in the performing arts. Practices outside of one's formal training migrate into the work in order to thwart habits and expectations. Bricolage and collage spur on a basic desire of making, in confrontation with the resistance of materials that are often simply at hand. How do dilettant practices and practising dilettantism operate as artistic strategies? Jennifer Lacey, Alma Söderberg and Rodrigo Sobarzo will present and discuss some dilettant aspects of their work.
16 June 2012 at Kaaistudio's Brussels. 3pm and 3.45pm: Jennifer Lacey, Consultations. 4.30-6pm: talks and dialogue. Reservation required! Send us an E-mail
Organized by Sarma @ WorkSpaceBrussels
Workshop with Jennifer Lacey: Playing Dilettant Dramaturge, or What Criteria for What Purpose?
In collaboration with WorkSpaceBrussels, Sarma organizes a cluster around 'dilettant dramaturgy' in June, with choreographer Jennifer Lacey as central guest. One aspect is a workshop for dance makers that will take place 18-22 June 2012. More info about the workshop and application here.
Lab: Dilettantism unbounded
In an extension of the workshop 'Playing Dilettant Dramaturge, or What Criteria for What Purpose?', Jennifer Lacey will bring her 'dilettant' working principles and dramaturgy archive in dialogue with an actual creation process (25-29 June 2012). For Die Unbändigen, performance artists Jack Hauser, Satu Herrala, Sabina Holzer and Jeroen Peeters encounter one another with and through their artistic practices as their instruments, as if they were a band making something together. In a dilettant fashion, materials and practices are borrowed haphazardly from various domains: literature, free jazz, cinema, science fiction, sports, etc. They are charted on A6 file cards that form a 'logbook' of the process as well as the basis for performance scores. How to honour the arbitrary principles of collecting and composing? How could one conduct a performance through the use of materials and images?
Oral Site
Oral Site is a new open source software and website initiated by Myriam Van Imschoot. In 2011 it has been developed by a team of coders, writers and sound specialists of Sarma, Constant and Rits who share an interest in oral and experimental publication formats. Oral Site enables users to read, edit and publish online multimodal publications that merge sound, image, text and graphics. Oral Site is both an instrument and a place where one can "expand" publication within an environment that encourages contributors to move beyond the classical written form and explore new ways of dealing with textual, oral, visual and graphical elements in order to discover alternative approaches of time, space and performativity.
Scores and notations @ (What's) the matter with scores
Friday April 13th 2012 Myriam Van Imschoot, who initialized the project, will present OralSite, the new platform for experimental publication, multimodal creation and documentation during a panel discussion on scores during What’s the matter with method at Kunstencentrum Buda in Kortrijk. Special attention will be given to her publication What’s the score.
Oral Site publication What's the Score
What's the Score? is an expanded publication by Myriam Van Imschoot on scores and notation systems employed in contemporary dance and performance practices from the turn of the millennium up to 2005. It’s the first publication in the framework of Oral Site, including an essay, scores and other visual materials that highlight the score-based work of ten artists in search of new forms of collaboration, composition, working methods and politics of spectatorship: Antonia Baehr, Vincent Dunoyer, William Forsythe, Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Thomas Lehmen, Myriam Gourfink, Thierry De Mey, Lisa Nelson and Amos Hetz.
Text collection Embodied Dramaturgies
Text collection on dramaturgy with a focus on accounts and reflections grounded in a variety of dramaturgical practices. Realised in January 2012.
New website
Welcome to Sarma's new website! Aiming to make Sarma's archive(s) more accessible, this new site (launched in January 2012) integrates several databases and websites into one environment with different search and browse options. The site is still in process though, meaning both that the technology will be finetuned, as well as that new documents (visual and oral especially) and tags will be added gradually. We're happy to receive feedback.
Earlier in 2011
Salons on new artistic practices and discourses
In 2011 Sarma organized monthly salons in collaboration with different organizations in Brussels. Environments for investigating new practices and languages of making in dance and beyond. Several of the salons have been documented here
Laboratory Popela’s Paralipomena
A lab around scores, experimental writing and collective discursive practices. Curated by Jeroen Peeters. With Shila Anaraki, Julien Bruneau, Mette Edvardsen, Jack Hauser, Leslie Mannès, Manon Santkin, Sarah Vanhee, Myriam Van Imschoot. November 11 - 18, 2011.
Expanded Publications
Black Box (2009), Sneak preview Oral Site (2011), Soirée Parole, abc-workshop Oral Site
October 27 - November 19 @ Recyclart
with works and curated by Myriam Van Imschoot. Co-produced by SARMA
Anthology walk+talk Brussels
Texts on practice by and about Philipp Gehmacher, Alexander Schellow, Meg Stuart, Chrysa Parkinson, Eleanor Bauer, Rémy Héritier, Mette Ingvartsen, Martin Nachbar, Constanze Klementz. Realised in March 2011.