The summer academy WE LIVE HERE marks its fifth anniversary! The platform for artistic encounters initiated by Nicole Beutler, Marijke Hogenboom and Andrea Bozic marks its fifth anniversary! WE LIVE HERE 2015 provides residencies for four different Lab’s of artists and thinkers, offering them a possibility to develop and deepen their ideas with the participating practitioners. Next to the different Lab’s there will be HOW DO YOU WORK? conversations with artists present in Julidans, and lectures and presentations open to the public.
One: Strongly driven by a need to keep exploring the boundaries between disciplines and challenge the fixed models of art production, we have invited TILT (choreographer Andrea Božić, visual artist Julia Willms & sound artist Robert Pravda) and their guests to research their interest in space from in-disciplinary perspectives working on SPECTRA – the world as an artwork.
Two: To stimulate exchange, we propose the laboratory WE WORK HERE in which artists from different backgrounds will share their work(practice) and ideas for the future, hosted by choreographer Nicole Beutler and theorist/dramaturge Konstantina Georgelou (ArtEZ, Utrecht University).
Three: The work session DRAMATURGY AT WORK, which can be seen as a follow up/continuation of WE WORK HERE, is an initiative by Konstantina Georgelou, choreographer/lecturer Efrosini Protopapa (Roehampton University) and performance-maker/dramaturge Danae Theodoridou (Groningen University) that will deal with developing and sharing artistic practices: on the creation of working frames in dramaturgical processes.
Four: Interested in the exchanges between performance, mediation and publics, theatre scholar and artist Pedro Manuel, communication designer Barbara Alves and curator Inge Koks designed the work session THE QUALITY OF PARTICIPATION, investigating alternative forms of publicness, mediation and locality, by imagining ways to invite the unknown in.
Next to the different Lab’s there will be plenty of moments open for public: HOW DO YOU WORK conversations and presentations with directors Quirine Racké and Helena Muskens, cultural programmer Radna Rumping (Non-fiction), art historian Michael van Hoogenhuyze, performance scholar Joe Kelleher (Roehampton University) and an open session of the lab DRAMATURGY AT WORK..
Furthermore, WE LIVE HERE participants lunch and dine together and visit several performances in Julidans and Over het IJ Festival.
Next to the different Lab’s there will be plenty of moments open for public: HOW DO YOU WORK conversations and presentations with directors Quirine Racké and Helena Muskens, cultural programmer Radna Rumping (Non-fiction), art historian Michael van Hoogenhuyze, performance scholar Joe Kelleher (Roehampton University) and an open session of the lab DRAMATURGY AT WORK. More information and the full programme: www.we-live-here.com
WE LIVE HERE is an initiative of Nicole Beutler, Marijke Hoogenboom and Andrea Bozic and the 2015 edition is produced by NBprojects in collaboration with Tilt and the Performance Arts in Transition research group (de Theaterschool). We are linked to Julidans Festival and supported by Studio DOK, the Performing Arts Fund (FPK) and the Amsterdam Arts Fund (AFK).