Dilettantism unbounded
A lab on conducting through images
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. 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?
The lab has taken place June 25-29, 2012
Participants: Jack Hauser, Satu Herrala, Sabina Holzer, Jennifer Lacey and Jeroen Peeters
Production: Sarma @ WorkSpaceBrussels. With the friendly support of Cattravelsnotalone
Documentation
More on the working principles of dilettant dramaturgy can be found in the extended documentation on Oral Site.
More on Die Unbändigen
Bios
Jack Hauser was born in 1958 in Horn, Austria. From 1983 to ‘86 he studied electro-acoustic music. In 1994 he was one of the founders of lux flux; numerous international guest appearances followed in the years 1994-2000. Since 1999 going under the moniker “The Name. The Cover. The Adventure.,” Jack Hauser has been designing performative & visual interventions and doing experimental work in a variety of different media—for example, the archiv and environmental work “Wohnung Miryam van Doren", the travel brochures integrated into Fictionautic, the “LIVE:Paul Sernine & Miss Coochie” series and the loose-knit “Secret Service”group. His many collective, cooperative choreographic projects have included work with Milli Bitterli, David Ender, Sabina Holzer, Inge Kaindlstorfer, Barbara Kraus, Elke Krystufek, Machfeld, Markus Schinwald, Myriam Van Imschoot and Simon Wachsmuth. Since 2005, Jack Hauser has been a member of the editorial staff of www.corpusweb.net, an internet magazine for dance and choreography.
Satu Herrala works as a performer, choreographer and curator. After her studies in dance, speech sciences and psychology in Finland she received the danceWEB scholarship in 2004 at the Impulstanz Festival. Between 2006 and 2011 she lived in Vienna and worked with various choreographers in Austria as well as in Germany, Switzerland and Finland. She also makes her own and collaborative works: performances, installations and walks. Her works have been shown in Tanzquartier Wien, brut Wien and Zodiak Centre for New Dance in Helsinki. In 2011 she started MA studies in choreography at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. She participated in the Festival Lab in 2011, training for the next generation of festival programmers, and co-curated DO TANK program at Spielart festival in Munich. She is currently preparing DO TANK 2012 for Baltic Circle festival in Helsinki.
Website Satu Herrala
Sabina Holzer is a performer, choreographer and writer based in Vienna. Since her study at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Amsterdam / SNDO till 1993 she has been working in projects of international choreographers as Vera Mantero / o rumo do fumo (P) ; Fabian Chyle (D), Daniel Aschwanden / Bilderwerfer (A); Yossi Wanunu / Toxic Dreams (A); Philipp Gehmacher / mumbling fish; Milli Bitterli / artificial horizon; a.o. She is editorial member of the internet magazine for dance, choreography and performance www.corpusweb.net, where she publishes regularly. Sabina Holzer is strongly involved in research combining theory and practice and was invited to serveral research laboratories at Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, WUK Vienna. She developed works in collaborative settings together with Lux Flux, Machfeld, Martin Siewert and Jeroen Peeters. Since 2005 she is in a strong artistic compainionship with the filmmaker and visual artist Jack Hauser. Recent projects include „It is not the picture" - A dance; and „Approaching myself as a stranger“ - a performative reading.
Website Sabina Holzer
Jennifer Lacey is choreographer/dancer and teacher from New York presently living in Paris. Since her arrival in France in 2000 she has been able to develop in depth her tendency to interrogate the methods of dance production and their relationship to product and form, arriving at work that is often but not always performative. In the last 10 years, Jennifer Lacey has worked often in collaboration with visual artist Nadia Lauro producing performances and installations, including "Les Assistantes" (2012). As far afield from traditional dance performance as the work often goes, Lacey is commited to her essential point of view as a dancer and strives to produce a thinking body of work in which poetics transcend a conceptual basis.
Jeroen Peeters is an essayist, dramaturge and performer based in Brussels. He publishes on dance, performance and art theory in various specialized media, such as Contact Quarterly, corpus, Dance Theatre Journal and Etcetera. His book in collaboration with Meg Stuart, Are we here yet? was published in March 2010 (Les Presses du réel). Since 2002, Peeters has been co-directing Sarma, a discursive laboratory for dance criticism, research, dramaturgy and creation (www.sarma.be). Aristic collaborations in the field of dance with a.o. Eleanor Bauer, Julien Bruneau, Paul Deschanel Movement Research Group, deufert+plischke, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Anne Juren, Thomas Lehmen, Martin Nachbar, Meg Stuart and Superamas. With Kattrin Deufert, Thomas Plischke and Marcus Steinweg he created the dance performance Anarchiv #1: I am not a zombie in 2009.