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Performance, Ritual and Reality
The Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede in collaboration with the College of Music and Drama (Khartoum) and the Institute for Theatre Studies (Amsterdam) are organizing a five days workshop, for students and young artists from various cultural backgrounds, entitled "Performance, Ritual and Reality".
The initiators' aim is to set a multidisciplinary platform (dance, theatre, visual arts and performances) researching on various practices in relation to the often rather transparent - dividing lines between theatre, rituals and reality.
The workshop will be taking place in Enschede, under the roof of the DAI (faculties and DAI house ) from the 2nd until the 6th of November 2009 and will conclude with a presentation on the 6th of November in Enschede.
"Performance, Ritual and Reality" is part of THE OTHER SUDAN festival (http://www.artsafrica.org) and will be lead both from Sudanese choreographer Stephen Ochalla and Netherlands based visual artist Monali Meher, bringing those seemingly different cultural backgrounds and practices into a dialectic frame.
Organizers have quite a fruitful connection to Sudan. Mieke Kolk (THE OTHER SUDAN festival) is the president of the FOUNDATION ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT SUDAN (http://www.artsafrica.org), while DAI initiated a successful workshop in Khartoum in 2007 as part of the HERE AS THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD project (Lucy Cotter, Gabriëlle Schleijpen & Alite Thijsen - https://dutchartinstitute.nl/here-as-the-centre-of-the-world/index.html), which set off several collaborations with individual Sudanese artists.
The participants list already includes current master students from the DAI as well as recent alumni, master students from the Dance Master Program of ArtEZ, visual artists and performers from Sudan and master students of the Institute for Theatre Studies (Amsterdam).
The final presentation will take place in late afternoon of the 6th November. For more information please contact the projectmanager Nikos Doulos at [email protected].
Here as the Centre of the World
A new release from Archis Publishers
‘Here as the Centre of the World ’ documents a transnational artistic research project that took place in six cities worldwide: Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei. It reports and reflects on the real conditions in which cultural differences were articulated in the day-to day activities of the 75 participant artists.
The book takes the project as a departure point for further reflection by artists, writers, theorists and cultural producers.
With contributions by
Lilet Breddels, Lucy Cotter, Tony Chakar, Pascale Feghali, Rana Hamadeh, Ozkan Gölpinar, John Heymans, Erwin Jans, Khaled Khalifa, Bechara Malkoun, Rania Mamoun, Susannah Mira, Kawa Nemir, Alite Thijsen, Jerlian Tsao, Emily Williams, and Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan.
A new release from Archis Publishers.
Initiated by The DAI/ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and edited by Lucy Cotter, Gabriëlle Schleijpen and Alite Thijsen.
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PUBLISHING AS PERFORMANCE
Book Launch Sunday 21 June 2009, 14.00 – 18.00 Casco, Office for Art Design and Theory, Utrecht
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